In a remarkable piece of good fortune, the recently-released report
into intelligence failures leading up to the Iraq war has completely
exonerated George W. Bush and his administration!

That's right - the Bushies didn't make any mistakes or errors in
judgment at all.

How conveeeeenient!

The report - prepared by a panel put together by, um, George W. Bush -
asserts that the intelligence community - not just the CIA, but the
DIA and the NSA - were "dead wrong" in almost every single prewar
judgment.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1549987,00.html

Not only that, but the Bushies didn't have anything to do with pushing
the intelligence community to come up with Saddam's smoking gun.

Well smack me with a herring and call me Marjorie.

In fact, the report practically places all of the blame for the entire
Iraq war on an Iraqi defector named "Curveball", who was described by
his handlers as "crazy" (not to mention a "drunken liar").
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1451138,00.html

"So let me get this straight - "Curveball" makes up a bunch of *****,
and the intelligence community swallows it whole.

Then the intelligence community takes it to the Bush administration,
and they swallow it whole, deciding to base the invasion of Iraq on
the ramblings of a crazy drunken liar (Curveball, not George W. Bush).

Oh, but it's not their fault.

And, oh, I forgot that the only reason we invaded Iraq was so they
could have elections, silly me.

So, despite the fact that the administration knew that Curveball was
lying but a bunch of his "information" showed up in Colin Powell's
presentation to the U.N. anyway, the administration is not to blame
here.

And despite the fact that Condoleezza Rice was in charge of the NSA,
she's not to blame for any of this either.
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/31/122152/436

In fact, she gets a promotion!

And despite the fact that George W. Bush said in 2003 that he had
"darn good intelligence," after the uranium from Africa State of the
Union debacle, he's not to blame.

And here's one interesting tidbit: the Republican party's 2000
platform explicitly stated that "In a time of fluid change and
uncertainty, intelligence is truly America's first line of defense.

The [Clinton] administration has weakened that defense by allowing a
series of shocking security breaches, from blatant espionage and its
virtual abandonment of national security-related export controls, to
sheer sloppiness at the highest levels of government.

This must stop, immediately.

Nor should the intelligence community be made the scapegoat for
political misjudgments." http://hnn.us/articles/6949.html

But ***** it, let's blame the intelligence community anyway.

You know, this whole farce would be pretty funny if we weren't killing
thousands of people over it.


From The Democratic Underground
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Harry