The Rightwing Extremist-controlled “Conventional Wisdom” will tell you that the recent Senate Intelligence Report on the WMD fiasco sited “no evidence” of the Bush Administration pressuring the CIA to sex up their intelligence.
Well…the truth (for those who are interested in such a thing) is that this report was specifically meant to deal only with the CIA’s failures. The report on the Administration’s culpability in it all was — by agreement between Senate Republicans and the White House — set to come out only after the November election. So hopefully Dubya can look forward to reading that one from Crawford. It’s only the American Electorate who once again get the shaft and will go to the polls without all the info they might have been able to use to make an informed vote.
But David Corn in The Nation finds the goods in this report anyway. Where the “National Intelligence Estimate” had one thing to say about the WMD’s, the Bush Administration routinely upped the rhetorical ante when they spoke to Americans about it. Here’s an example from deep within the report (deep enough that the Mainstream Media couldn’t be bothered with it):
The Senate intelligence report indirectly indicts Bush. It notes that there was one area where the intelligence community was correct: the supposed relationship between Hussein and Al Qaeda. “The Central Intelligence Agency,” the report says, “reasonably assessed that there were likely several instances of contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida throughout the 1990s, but that these contacts did not add up to an established formal relationship.” This means that when Bush said before the war that Saddam Hussein was “a threat because he’s dealing with Al Qaeda,” he was not basing this significant assertion on the findings of the US intelligence community. And he ignored the intelligence when he called Saddam Hussein “an ally” of Al Qaeda during his May 1, 2003, speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Mr. and Mrs. America (Mom and Dad): You were being lied to. Whether you like to hear that or not. Face it. Do the right thing, don’t vote to put such a man back in the White House this November. Your country deserves so much more.
Corn also asks this on-the-money question:
Of course they do. As do we. But of course, in Bush’s America, we’re supposed to believe that we’re not deserving of such consideration. Get with the program, Corn! You Freedom Hater!
I am so tired of people who believe Bush lied about WMDs. It is a fact that Iraq had stock piles of WMDs. It is a fact that we found WMDs – but only very small or singular amounts. It is a fact that no one can account for the missing WMDs. All the other big foreign countries also believed Iraq had WMDs – including France. There is no doubt the WMD thing is a fiasco. But what worries me is – where are they now? They aren’t accounted for. That is truely scarry! And while the intellectually dishonest say "Saddam himself was a WMD" I find that excuse/arguement true but worthless. If that in’t bad enough, we have demonstrated to the world that our CIA totally sucks. Nobody but the givernment is to blame for that.
As Dubya’s own man, David Kaye said "Anyone out there holding – as I gather Prime Minister Blair has recently said – the prospect that ISG is going to unmask actual weapons of mass destruction is really delusional."
I’ll go with David Kaye on this one, since he was chosen by the Administration, given every possible resource IN THE WORLD to find him, and still has left us with the unavoidable conclusion: They weren’t there. Not sure what would give you any idea to the contrary at this point, other than that’s what you’d *like* to believe. For whatever reason.
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