You are right that this was an unprofessional thing to do. I don't even like the Dixie chicks but the point I made is the same. They got taken off the air for this. Not because they were unprofessional at a concert, but because they are against the war. It seems clear that the reason why they were suppressed from the radio is so that they could not influence others with their views on the war.

The CIA felt that they had reason to question it. Even Bush is starting to admit that it was faulty. This 'intelligence' is just a gathering of speculation gathered from the few military personel in Iraq before the war. That's part of the problem with military 'intelligence': it's mainly speculation. As a former ROTC member, I know for the fact that this military intelligence is not even necessarily required to be based on fact at all.

I get my facts from governmental research by official US diplomats and professors at leading universities, because these are the people who really know what's going on. The "news" is not good enough.