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Jul. 14th, 2003
Nice try, wrong person
Jul. 14th, 2003 11:09 amEveryone's is focusing on Bush as being the central issue in this falafel about Iraq and the uranium, as if the only question worth asking is, did he knowingly lie to the American people and if the answer is no, then everything's okay. On a broader perspective, the Democrats are asking whether or not intelligence was manipulated to get America into war. But what if the answer is no? What if the answer is that people just got things plain wrong?
Because that's not the end of it, you see - if the Administration did not knowingly lie to the American people, what did they know, if anything? We're talking about an administration who is now admitting to gross incompetence, that does not know what one hand is doing and communicating that to the other. That one hand - George Tenet - has fallen on its sword is no answer. It's not the fact that Tenet didn't pluck that sentence out that's important - it's the infrastructure that allowed that sentence to get put in there in the first place. It's the possibility that, if there was no malice or manipulation involved, that Rice, Rove, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, even Powell - their focus being so dead set on war with Iraq - were proceeding with blinkered eyes and making decisions made on pre-determined assumptions. This is sheer recklessness.
What we have here is arguably the most powerful nation in the world that doesn't know what's going on and isn't getting the right information and doesn't care. It's not just: Does George Bush deserve to be President? It's: Does this Administration deserve to push the buttons?
Yes, the bitch is back. Miss me?
Because that's not the end of it, you see - if the Administration did not knowingly lie to the American people, what did they know, if anything? We're talking about an administration who is now admitting to gross incompetence, that does not know what one hand is doing and communicating that to the other. That one hand - George Tenet - has fallen on its sword is no answer. It's not the fact that Tenet didn't pluck that sentence out that's important - it's the infrastructure that allowed that sentence to get put in there in the first place. It's the possibility that, if there was no malice or manipulation involved, that Rice, Rove, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, even Powell - their focus being so dead set on war with Iraq - were proceeding with blinkered eyes and making decisions made on pre-determined assumptions. This is sheer recklessness.
What we have here is arguably the most powerful nation in the world that doesn't know what's going on and isn't getting the right information and doesn't care. It's not just: Does George Bush deserve to be President? It's: Does this Administration deserve to push the buttons?
Yes, the bitch is back. Miss me?