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Get real folks! The President did not use bad information to make the war decision! The President made the war decision and then found information to support the decision he had made! The WMD came from a British report that the CIA had disavowed.
Also, George the III's first statements were that we (meaning he) had to kill Saddam. When that didn't fly he changed to getting rid of a bad government. When that didn't fly he changed to weapons of mass destruction. When no weapons were found he went back to changing a bad government. Now he justifies this stupid un-American action by saying the world is better off without Saddam.
The world is better off without George III and his contractor vice pres who probably has deferred compensation and stock options in the firms the government is contracting with without going to competitive bidding and being overcharged for services and goods. If you don't think so look at the group of countries supporting us and the UK is Iraq. Spain withdrew on the slightes of whims and the Philippines took all 50 of its troops out. The press should publish a list of those in Iraq (on our side) and the number of people they have there.
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This piece is the single most coherent argument yet for not making an intelligence SuperCzar as the main fix for what ails the community. Forcing the NSC's staff to do their job and: a) intentionally receive intelligence reports from more than one agency; b)question what they receive from each, as a result of what they are reading from the others; and c)after getting 'satisfactory' answers, integrating them...is what is truly needed; and the 'competition' (for lack of a better word) between Agencies to 'get it right'--maybe even cooperate-- would probably help. That helps to counter an NIE being overly-influenced by any one single bureaucracy--and its failings. And since everything ends up going throuh NSC anyway, it's not an extra 'layer'. Some of the 'fixes' here may be simpler--longer-term-- than some are making them out to be.
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"We need to encourage Congress to frankly leave the man alone," President Bush said on Sept. 27, 2001. "Tenet's doing a good job. And if he's not, blame me, not him."
Remember this statement? I think it tells more than some would like to see. Wasn't it sweet though when George resigned?
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