Saturday, December 17, 2005
"It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong...."
"What? My actions caused the death of over 32,000 innocent Iraqi civilians and American soldiers? My bad...."
So we've gotten to the point where we know that, whether Bush actually outright lied about there being WMD in Iraq or not, he did present evidence that had not been corroborated by reliable, unbiased sources. He is also finally taking responsibility for the use of the faulty intelligence to justify going to war in Iraq. I guess I should give him some credit for that, right?
But even more troubling now is that he has been caught admitting that whether there were actually WMD or not was irrelevant to his calculus in the decision to go to war.
Plus it's also been verified yet again, officially by a Congressional report this time, that Bush had more prewar intelligence than Congress in the lead-up to the war.
But of course, the White House is still doing the same ole' two-step clinging to the now-tired talking point that Congress saw the same intelligence as the president.
More reading from a few weeks back:
- The Washingon Post on the "same intelligence" story.
- Who forged the infamous Niger uranium yellowcake documents?
- Sleeping With the Enemy: Chalabi’s Sordid History - a profile of one of the main lying jackasses the White House listened to/used to get themselves into the Iraq war mess.
