I am very concerned about the lies and deception surrounding the State of the Union WMD sentence. Never before have so many politicians been so engaged in untruthfulness and obfuscation.
The press has had a field day with all the dishonesty. Of course, the dishonesty and scandal I’m talking about is the blatant, politically-motivated lies being thrown out daily by the democratic politicians and the press surrounding one completely true statement uttered by Bush last January. The statement referred to something British Intelligence had “learned”. They had learned about the potential that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger. They had not proven it. The US had not proven it. It was one small grain of information that was part of the mountain of evidence that proved Saddam Hussein was a threat to the world.
Bush was entirely truthful. But there are lies out there. The real deception is that of the politicians and press that are successfully keeping this “story” in the news with no logical justification. Every time it is mentioned by someone with the intention of smearing the Administration, it is a lie. The hypocrisy is deep. Most of the people you hear complaining about being “tricked into going to war” voted to go to war before the statement was even made, based on the aforementioned mountain of evidence. The funny thing is, although we know the statement Bush made is factually correct since he merely referred to intelligence but didn’t guarantee it’s accuracy, the actual details of the intelligence to which he referred may be shown to be 100% correct anyway. Blair still says it is correct. And the evidence may yet prove it. But until then, someone should start some hearings on the Hill to look into the deception of the politicians and press that are turning this non-issue into an issue.
An interesting exchange from the movie “Midway”:
Captain Garth: How much can you decipher?
Commander Rochefort: Fifteen percent.
Captain Garth: Really decipher?
Commander Rochefort: Ten percent.
Captain Garth: That’s one word in ten, Joe! You’re guessing!
Commander Rochefort: We like to call it “analysis.”
What did Admiral Nimitz and the US Navy do with this intelligence? They won the Battle of Midway, broke the backbone of the Japanese Navy and helped win World War Two! That’s what intelligence is for. It doesn’t have to be 100% correct or verified, but taken together with other evidence, as a whole, intelligence becomes analysis and analysis becomes policy. Democrats, who love to cut the budgets of the intelligence agency, don’t understand that point.
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1 Barry Sands // Oct 14, 2003 at 9:12 pm
Yeah, we need to start getting together to back Wesley Clark he really knows his stuff and he is more than just a partisan, he really rises past all that junk to get to the level of truly American, you know. Past all that stuff. You can’t name one living person who has been willing to sacrifice more for thier country than him.
2 Jonathan Carter // Nov 21, 2003 at 9:57 am
Why is it so hard for Republicans to admit that Bush is wrong sometimes? Bill Clinton was wrong many times, but that doesn’t mean his entire presidency was a failure. How rediculous would it sound if a Democrat tried to say that Clinton never made a mistake. You are placing Bush on a pedestal reserved only for God. The last person who was perfect was born more than 2000 years ago, and I’m sure that Bush is not a reincarnate of Christ. Bush said there were WMD in Iraq, and there just wasn’t enough evidence to prove this. He wasn’t lying ,but he also wasn’t 100% truthful either. Admitting that President Bush is wrong isn’t the same as saying the Republican ideology is wrong. Do you disagree? Surely Bush isn’t the best examle of a Republican you can find.