Bush = Dumb Ass
POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Friday, August 20, 2004 04:20
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Being too busy .... yes, there does seem to be a lot of that going around ...
So, for the sake of completeness, here's a brief summary of where I was going to go:
1) show the entire admin had access (even more than Bush) to the yellowcake info, show that National Security Advisor (Rice) wrote several 'yellowcake' speeches for Bush and Powell; in one case (Powell) submitted them for (CIA) intelligence review with a one hour deadline and no note of urgency; in another (Bush - State of the Union address) didn't submit it for CIA review at all. (It was the CIA who had pulled the yellowcake references from earlier speeches.)
2) show, referencing over a dozen speeches, that less than a year before invading Iraq, Bush, Powell, Cheney, Rice et al considered Hussein and WMD to be well-contained and not a threat; and that there was no additional intelligence information (Senate Report) to change the assessment
3) show the admin did not treat its own claims as credible: by putting troops on the ground without adequate precautions, by failure to secure alleged WMD sites, by failure to search for WMD, and by insistance that the UN NOT search.
I would have referenced it all with extended contextual quotes and/or urls. And I would have tied it together, along with my first posting, to show that WMDs were clearly a fabrication that even the administration didn't take seriously. And that many speeches showed a deliberate 'pattern of deception' by using carefully chosen words, phrases and examples to skirt provable lies, while still misleading the American public.
I do understand the need to triage one's time, so unless someone posts an interest in the research, I'll rest the topic here.
I hope you have a good time at the wedding.
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