You know, in the whole flip-flop vs. mendacious liar debate (that’s Kerry v. Bush) in case you were wondering…it shocks me that people are more worried about Kerry’s changing views than the fact that BUSH BLEW IT when it came to intelligence.
In fact, why is that a president who can’t seem to find the hundreds if not thousands of WMDs he promised before going to war isn’t getting tossed on his ass? If this were a Democract, of course, Republicans would be howling at his/her ineptness. Instead, they blame the CIA and pretend that the decisionmaker isn’t to blame.
Who is to blame at the CIA for letting the White House believe that Saddam had WMDs (which we can’t find) or a nuclear program that they can’t uncover?
“The White House, though, embraced the disputed theory that the tubes were for nuclear centrifuges, an idea first championed in April 2001 by a junior analyst at the C.I.A. Senior nuclear scientists considered that notion implausible, yet in the months after 9/11, as the administration built a case for confronting Iraq, the centrifuge theory gained currency as it rose to the top of the government.”
That’s from this Sunday’s NYTimes and it details who and how the White House went down the path to non-existent WMDs.
Come on people. Kerry changed his mind because the facts on the ground changed. Bush and Co. knew there were no WMDs and knew Saddam was not a threat and lied to us all. Truly, which is worse?
