Does this bother you? If not, why not?

Question

Pentagon officials undercut the intelligence community in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of
Iraq by insisting in briefings to the White House that there was a clear relationship between
Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, the Defense Department's inspector general said Friday.
Acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble told the
Senate Armed Services Committee that the office headed by former Pentagon policy chief Douglas J. Feith took "inappropriate" actions in advancing conclusions on al-Qaida connections not backed up by the nation's intelligence agencies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_pentagon_intelligence

Saddam didn't train and fund terrorists. He paid money to families of Palestinian suicide bombers.

Answer 1

squeeze me..but you might wanna take a look at this before you star jumping the shark....
Correction to This Article
A Feb. 9 front-page article about the Pentagon inspector general's report regarding the office of former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith incorrectly attributed quotations to that report. References to Feith's office producing "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" and that the office "was predisposed to finding a significant relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda" were from a report issued by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) in Oct. 2004. Similarly, the quotes stating that Feith's office drew on "both reliable and unreliable reporting" to produce a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq "that was much stronger than that assessed by the IC [Intelligence Community] and more in accord with the policy views of senior officials in the Administration" were also from Levin's report. The article also stated that the intelligence provided by Feith's office supported the political views of senior administration officials, a conclusion that the inspector general's report did not draw.The two reports employ similar language to characterize the activities of Feith's office: Levin's report refers to an "alternative intelligence assessment process" developed in that office, while the inspector general's report states that the office "developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decision-makers." The inspector general's report further states that Feith's briefing to the White House in 2002 "undercuts the Intelligence Community" and "did draw conclusions that were not fully supported by the available intelligence."
Basically what the correction is saying is that Senator Levins Comments were used to justify the Story,rather than the Facts...

Answer 2

Yeah...I read that as well. That's why I had said in another post similar to this, that government leaders can only do their job as they're supposed to, IF they have honest Intel. The position of President can only be properly executed IF there is that honesty and knowledge of those who are serving and advising him.

So, in all fairness, and opposite as everyone has claimed Bush cannot be held totally responsible for what happened. This has been going on since 1998 and that's a fact. I have a list of quotes from Clinton, right down to the senators that they were under the impression that Iraq had WMD's.

If I was sitting in the oval office, and I was not given the truthful Intel that they were supposed to be giving me...how would I know who is lying? When any person sits in that Presidents chair, they expect the facts, as well as the complete and honest truth. If I were him I'd fire the best of them and start from scratch.

Answer 3

I don't see why it was "inappropriate" for DoD to offer it's analysis of available intel. I didn't change the decision because then DCI George Tennet told Bush that WMD's in Iraq were a "slam dunk". I doubt that we know or will ever know the truth about the extent of cooperation between as Qaida & Iraq. What we do know is that Saddam funded & trained terrorists.

Answer 4

Ahh, the "Scooter" Libby trial.

As a neoconservative Colbinista, I'm forced to go with the Greatest President Ever(!) (GWB) and say "we did what we had to do. I'm the decider, I make the decisions".

In all seriousness, it does bother me that this Administration does what it does. This actually goes deeper than you're looking into. What really bothers me is that the Administration could easily control the MainStream Media (MSM). Every year, countless top reporters from the MSM are invited to the White House for various events and catered to (as far as I know, this is fairly standard. What's not standard is how far this Administration goes to cater to the MSM and subconsciously coerce MSM into ignoring their faults). In fact, a lot of this would've been ignored long ago were it not for the bloggers (let's face it, they won the Time Person of the Year award, not you (unless you're a political blogger)).

This story was covered very briefly by the MSM over a year ago, but it was so quiet that you just had to wonder if something was up. Aside from the undercover CIA agent getting revealed, this thing was pushed under the carpet. Considering how important it is (that BushCo falsified reports about Iraq to stage a war in order to bolster oil revenues (ie his pockets) and pursue a personal agenda (far as I can tell, to "finish what Daddy started" and to maybe kill Ahmenajad (sp) before he actually does acquire WMDs and sell them to terrorists (I don't argue with that there. This is the same guy who walks into the UN and calls America evil (yes, the UN HQ is in NYC) and full of tyrant dictators. Meanwhile he tortures those who don't follow his radical Islamofascist idea of the world in his own country)). Fortuntely, someone did look underneath all the dust and got to the meat of the issue (unfortunately, it was chicken infected with H5N1). That person was Chuck Norris (er, some Times guy. Chuck Norris would've roundhouse kicked his way to the Truth 7 times faster than those Times people).

It bothers me that the Admins think they can get away with anything (Dick Cheney shooting his "friend"? Last time I shot Billy Bob, he didn't talk to me for a week :P). Unfortunately, leaving Iraq now will make things worse, so I've no viable solution to offer you other than to get competent people running Iraq (another Times report says that there's actually a large percentage of people who are contracted to Iraq not on merit or ability, but because of their (Republican) Party affiliation. These are 25 year olds CPAs running the Treasury of Iraq, 28 year olds running the {something or other}, etc!).

So, yes this does bother me. Enough that I posted what could actually be a blog entry (in case you haven't noticed, I'm a political bloggist. Before you jump to "he's a biased fool!", I operate several blogs, taking all sides. If you want to call me biased, do it because the "Neoconservative Colbinista" blog is my favorite. It's just fun to me to take the Stephen-Colbert-uber-patriot-Bush-can-never-fail-and-we-will-kill-all-bears stance on everything. It's so rediculous it's funny).

I am appaulled that you fools yawn and make jokes out of what could honestly be one of the biggest displays of the ineffecuality of this Administration, its incompetence, and its general disregard for ethics (despite coming from the "Moral Majority" and "Religious Right").

Great, now the FBI will come to ship me off to Gitmo for my dissent. Anyone know how to morse code blink "torture"?

Answer 5

Typical of the bush administration to not get their facts straight. Means, we're just over their to murder their families start more chaos while the terrorists sneak away...

Answer 6

its a political chess match for all of it. ( oil )
its going to be tough to get the US to stop trying to protect its own people.
now if we were invaded by another planet then you would see amazing minds at work.

Answer 7

It's just one more example of the lack of integrity of th eBush administration. Add it to the list.

Answer 8

http://911scholars.org/\
this is the truth
http://www15.ocn.ne.jp/~oyakodon/newversion/yudayasensou.e.htm

Answer 9

What is it with this hamster talk?

If you want to wear a bhurka say so..............

Answer 10

*yawn*...Hey do you know any good online game websites? =D