"Turn to the shredder."
Today, George Bush is facing SERIOUS credibility problems. In a recent Gallop poll, 67% of responders referred to the President as "Not Honest." So now he's saying the accusations of his "opponents" (aka- you and me!) are partisan lies. And all his inner-circle cronies are on TV echoing his statements about their OWN involvement in the Iraq war. My question is: If we all think they're such liars, why do they think we'd suddenly start believing them?
When Bill Clinton was President, we had a lot of intelligence on Iraq and WMDs. The bottom line was, we just didn't know for sure. We thought they did. And we thought they didn't. But we mostly thought they didn't. For eight whole years, conflicting reports were coming into the Oval Office. YES! he's got nukes. NO! he absolutely doesn't. While a few in the defense apparatus thought Saddam was a brilliant military and terrorist leader, others thought that was complete crap. So Bubba stayed put and wouldn't risk war for "theories."
And so it seemed, that president H.W. Bush and his war-czar, then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had SUCCEEDED with the help of their allies and the U.N. in accomplishing their mission. "Stop Saddam Hussein and destroy his WMDs." So while there were still a few beating the war drum (aka- the "neocons"), their cries were all but silenced by the end of the conflict.
Then came Bush 2. (Also worth noting: the new Vice President accompanying the new 'Commander in Chief' was none other than the oil-loving, war architect Dick Cheney.) And almost immediately, the upper management, the voices of calm and reason in the CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA and others all found themselves FIRED and replaced with administration loyalists. People who didn't have opinions or facts. They had loyalty. And most of them hadn't even had one day of real experience in their new fields. But it didn't matter. They didn't need experience. They just had to go on TV on behalf of their respective agencies and agree with whatever the Administration mouthed for them. Good boys. Now sit. Roll over. Play dead. Good.
Then came a day of reckoning. Sept 11, 2001. Never mind that it was the darkest day in our nation's history. It was the best day, the brightest day in the BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S history. It was the excuse they had been so desperately seeking.
"Good. Cheney has his people in the CIA and the Defense Dpt. They bury any data we don't want... Now all we need to do is remove any dissenters -- then go to town with our new intelligence team and our hand-picked data! FINALLY. We can go back to Iraq and finish what Cheney started."
(Why go back to Iraq? See my next blog on the Neocon agenda.)
And with that, they went to the House, Senate and the entire world with a tiny bit of now wildly discredited intelligence...and it was ok, because they just silenced the data and the people that thought differently.
And the fact that Bush forced the issue RIGHT in the frenzy of the 2002 mid-term elections, he was able to turn this into a POWERFUL political weapon. If a congressman didn't support removing an "obvious threat to our national security" he/she was inviting a "mushroom cloud over an American city." Well, he got his votes to go to war, even though he only gave the Senate and the House LESS THAN A WEEK to mull it over. "More intelligence? Sleep on it?" Come on boys! It's just WAR!
Unfortunately, contained in the data the administration neglected to show us (which is only now surfacing) was information about the realities of invading Iraq. How it wasn't worth it. How it would go horribly wrong and cost the nation countless American lives. And about the damage it would do to our fragile economy and our standing as a citizen of the civilized world. But the Administration wouldn't know. They shredded the sh*t.
And now, they come out and say that they showed everyone the same intelligence, that it wasn't fabricated. They just fail to mention that when they say "all the intelligence" they mean the few scraps that were left of it.
So, if like me and so many of my fellow Americans, you're desperately seeking the truth, look no further than the shredder bins at the CIA.
Today, George Bush is facing SERIOUS credibility problems. In a recent Gallop poll, 67% of responders referred to the President as "Not Honest." So now he's saying the accusations of his "opponents" (aka- you and me!) are partisan lies. And all his inner-circle cronies are on TV echoing his statements about their OWN involvement in the Iraq war. My question is: If we all think they're such liars, why do they think we'd suddenly start believing them?
When Bill Clinton was President, we had a lot of intelligence on Iraq and WMDs. The bottom line was, we just didn't know for sure. We thought they did. And we thought they didn't. But we mostly thought they didn't. For eight whole years, conflicting reports were coming into the Oval Office. YES! he's got nukes. NO! he absolutely doesn't. While a few in the defense apparatus thought Saddam was a brilliant military and terrorist leader, others thought that was complete crap. So Bubba stayed put and wouldn't risk war for "theories."
And so it seemed, that president H.W. Bush and his war-czar, then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had SUCCEEDED with the help of their allies and the U.N. in accomplishing their mission. "Stop Saddam Hussein and destroy his WMDs." So while there were still a few beating the war drum (aka- the "neocons"), their cries were all but silenced by the end of the conflict.
Then came Bush 2. (Also worth noting: the new Vice President accompanying the new 'Commander in Chief' was none other than the oil-loving, war architect Dick Cheney.) And almost immediately, the upper management, the voices of calm and reason in the CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA and others all found themselves FIRED and replaced with administration loyalists. People who didn't have opinions or facts. They had loyalty. And most of them hadn't even had one day of real experience in their new fields. But it didn't matter. They didn't need experience. They just had to go on TV on behalf of their respective agencies and agree with whatever the Administration mouthed for them. Good boys. Now sit. Roll over. Play dead. Good.
Then came a day of reckoning. Sept 11, 2001. Never mind that it was the darkest day in our nation's history. It was the best day, the brightest day in the BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S history. It was the excuse they had been so desperately seeking.
"Good. Cheney has his people in the CIA and the Defense Dpt. They bury any data we don't want... Now all we need to do is remove any dissenters -- then go to town with our new intelligence team and our hand-picked data! FINALLY. We can go back to Iraq and finish what Cheney started."
(Why go back to Iraq? See my next blog on the Neocon agenda.)
And with that, they went to the House, Senate and the entire world with a tiny bit of now wildly discredited intelligence...and it was ok, because they just silenced the data and the people that thought differently.
And the fact that Bush forced the issue RIGHT in the frenzy of the 2002 mid-term elections, he was able to turn this into a POWERFUL political weapon. If a congressman didn't support removing an "obvious threat to our national security" he/she was inviting a "mushroom cloud over an American city." Well, he got his votes to go to war, even though he only gave the Senate and the House LESS THAN A WEEK to mull it over. "More intelligence? Sleep on it?" Come on boys! It's just WAR!
Unfortunately, contained in the data the administration neglected to show us (which is only now surfacing) was information about the realities of invading Iraq. How it wasn't worth it. How it would go horribly wrong and cost the nation countless American lives. And about the damage it would do to our fragile economy and our standing as a citizen of the civilized world. But the Administration wouldn't know. They shredded the sh*t.
And now, they come out and say that they showed everyone the same intelligence, that it wasn't fabricated. They just fail to mention that when they say "all the intelligence" they mean the few scraps that were left of it.
So, if like me and so many of my fellow Americans, you're desperately seeking the truth, look no further than the shredder bins at the CIA.
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