Dumbo Blames His False Claim That Iran Might Launch
World War III on Intel Agencies"

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BLOGGED BY Jon Ponder ON 12/4/2007 2:54PM
Bush Blames His False Claim That Iran Might Launch World War III on
Intel Agencies
Is He Lying Or Is He the Head of an Intelligence Service So
Incompetent That U.S. Security Is in Jeopardy?
Take Your Pick
Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review.

In August, the U.S. government intelligence agencies sent word up the
chain that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons programs back in
2003. And yet, about two months later, on Oct. 17, 2007, Bush issued a
dire warning about Iran's nukes to the American people:

Bush: "I've told people that if you're interest in avoiding World War
III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from
having knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."
At Bush's news conference today, amid his tired, cringe-inducing towel-
snaps at the White House press corps, he denied knowing the Iranian
program was suspended in October when he suggested that the apocalypse
was nigh:

[BUSH:] I was made aware of the NIE last week. In August, I think it
was [Director of National Intelligence (DNI)] Mike McConnell came in
and said, we have some new information. He didn't tell me what the
information was; he did tell me it was going to take a while to
analyze. Why would you take time to analyze new information? One, you
want to make sure it's not disinformation. You want to make sure the
piece of intelligence you have is real. And secondly, they want to
make sure they understand the intelligence they gathered: If they
think it's real, then what does it mean? And it wasn't until last week
that I was briefed on the NIE that is now public.
And:

Q I understand what you're saying about when you were informed about
the NIE. Are you saying at no point while the rhetoric was escalating,
as "World War III" was making it into conversation, at no point nobody
from your intelligence team or your administration was saying, maybe
you want to back it down a little bit?

[BUSH:] No, nobody ever told me that.

Normal U.S. presidents don't generally suggest, especially off-
handedly, that the planet is on the brink of World War III. Is it
really possible that Bush could have been so woefully uninformed about
his own government's intelligence findings that he could make such a
world-class blunder?

No.

Every morning, without exception, a senior intelligence official,
usually DNI McConnell, presents Bush with a document called the
President's Daily Brief (PDB), a top-secret overview of the very
latest intelligence about the status of security threats facing the
nation.

From August until October 17, Bush was given at least 60 of these
daily security briefings. What he would have us believe now is that
during all those briefings DNI McConnell failed to inform him about
something of no less consequence than Iran's decision to postpone
blowing up the world.

If this is true, McConnell, along with every top official at all 16
U.S. intelligence agencies, should be fired for dereliction of duty
and rank incompetence.

But it is not true, and can't be. Bush had to have known the Iranian
program was suspended at the time he made his World War III comment.
He was lying then, just as he lied today when he laid blame for his
own knowingly false statement on DNI McConnell.

Why would Bush sully the office of the president of the United States
with such an outrageous and dangerous lie about Iran? Because keeping
America safe is far less critical to George Bush than keeping it
scared. The climate of fear that he inflamed after the 9/11 attacks
--- now relegated entirely to his base --- is all that sustains his
grasp on power. Without it, he has nothing.

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