Monday, June 9, 2008

Confirmed - Bush didn't lie.






From an article in the Washington Post (link above):

Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence [Click here for list of members], set out to provide the official foundation for what has become not only a thriving business but, more important, an article of faith among millions of Americans. And in releasing a committee report Thursday, he claimed to have accomplished his mission, though he did not use the L-word.

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But the phony "Bush lied" story line distracts from the biggest prewar failure: the fact that so much of the intelligence upon which Bush and Rockefeller and everyone else relied turned out to be tragically, catastrophically wrong.

And it trivializes a double dilemma that President Bill Clinton faced before Bush and that President Obama or McCain may well face after: when to act on a threat in the inevitable absence of perfect intelligence and how to mobilize popular support for such action, if deemed essential for national security, in a democracy that will always, and rightly, be reluctant.

Don't you love the bit of wishful thinking putting the word President before Obama's name, but not McCain's. Very awkward punctuation. Do you think it could have been deliberate? Nah.

Via lgf:

Discovered in the directory left wide open by the Obama site designers: a PDF file containing Obama’s plan to “hold accountable any perpetrators of war crimes” in Iraq.

And something tells me they don’t mean Al Qaeda.

Via Hot Air lots more links.

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