Report Depicts Pentagon That Purposely Manipulated Intelligence Before U.S. Invasion of Iraq:"A 'very damning' report by the Defense Department's inspector general depicts a Pentagon that purposely manipulated intelligence in an effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida in the runup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, says the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee."Highly disturbing" and "very damning," indeed. And yet not one Representative or Senator expressed real outrage over this: No one angrily demanded that Dick Cheney step down or that George Bush fire him or that those complicit in the manipulation of intelligence be held accountable to the American people for their duplicity.
'That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war,' said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. He said the Pentagon's work, 'which was wrong, which was distorted, which was inappropriate ... is something which is highly disturbing.'
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In a telephone interview Thursday, Levin said the IG report is 'very damning' and shows a Pentagon policy shop trying to shape intelligence to prove a link between al-Qaida and Saddam...."
What a bunch of wimps we have in government ... wimps with empty words, without conscience.
I also saw a piece on NBC news today where one of our soldiers currently executing the "new strategy" in Baghdad -- a desperately dangerous game of craps, basically -- actually said on and directly to camera that they are accomplishing nothing, and that it is time for them to go home. None of the other soldiers within earshot seemed to disagree.
How come I didn't hear any Congressmen address the concerns of these young men, sent into an unnecessary, bungled war by a bunch of ideological greedy jerks whose lies are responsible for untold death, injury, and destruction?
What a country we live in ....
Related:
- Molly Ivins (last column): Bush gave us war-- now give him hell for it
- 31 Days in Iraq:
"In January more than 1,900 people were killed in Iraq, up from 800 in January 2006. This map, designed by Adriana Lins de Albuquerque and Alicia Cheng for the New York Times, shows the dates, locations and circumstances of deaths for the first month of the year."
- John P. Briggs, M.D., and JP Briggs II, Ph.D. | Why Bush's Inner "Reality" Has Poisoned His Own Troop Plan:
"The president has included an extraordinary fatal flaw in his plan for additional US troops in Iraq, a fact that may not make much sense to his advisers and allies, but is psychologically understandable in terms of a mechanism that governs his inner reality. As with many other aspects of the president's sometimes odd behavior, the root of this new self-subverting plan lies not in political expediency, in the advice he's received, or in his intellectual abilities as such, but in a psychological twist that begins with his long and well-documented history of failure (and his sense of his own failure) within his family of origin," according to John P. Briggs, M.D., and J.P. Briggs II, Ph.D.
- No shame, no truth, no understanding, no nada....
- CIA Analysts: Over 50% Of Bush's Iraq War Justifications Untrue (LA Times)
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"What a bunch of wimps we have in government ... wimps with empty words, without conscience."
where will it stop...? when...? and, god help us, how...?
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