The editorial “Bring back Blix” (BDN, May 1) raises an interesting question. Was the Bush administration manipulated into the Iraq war by false intelligence information? The administration most certainly relied on internal Iraqi intelligence resources.

What an easy way for an internal political force to get rid of the entire Baath Party structure, by getting the United States and Britain to do it for them. It would only take a few Iraqi double agents feeding false or exaggerated information to our intelligence agencies. This may be the reason the intelligence information U.N. arms inspectors received from the United States was mostly garbage.

It is obvious that whatever name the postwar political structure that arises in Iraq takes, its heart and mind will be largely Shiite Muslim and pro-Iranian. It will be ironic if history proves the United States was duped into creating this state by Iraqis themselves.

Gene Wilbur

Parkman