Gimpy
02-03-2004, 06:09 PM
Yeah, It Was The Spooks Who Duped W!
DANIEL RUTH
Published: Feb 1, 2004
So much for the buck stopping with the president of the United States.
Why, there hasn't been this much action hiding behind the first desk since Monica Lewinsky last delivered a pizza.
Gracious, if former weapons inspector David Kay were any more disingenuous, he would be the perfect candidate for ``The Bachelor.''
It certainly wasn't a good week for George W. Bush, as Kay stepped down from the search for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, having spent $900 million and not even coming up with so much as a whoopee cushion to validate the White House's vanity war against Iraq.
But then in an attempt to provide some political cover to Bush, Kay asserted that the president of the United States himself may well have been duped into believing Iraq possessed stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons by an overzealous intelligence community eager to go to war.
Towel Snappers
This was hardly uplifting news. After all, when you've been burdened your entire political career with a reputation for being less engaged than Sonny von Bulow, the last thing you need is someone like David Kay suggesting you were little more than a Three Card Monte mark at the mercy of the spook community.
Of course, the alternative was hardly any better.
How would it look for the president to argue he wasn't duped, but instead participated in misleading the American people by using phony data to justify a war, which up to now has taken the lives of more than 500 U.S. military personnel?
This was a no-brainer (sorry, bad word choice perhaps) for the West Wing towel snappers surrounding the president. This called for a Parallel Universe Red Alert!
White House press shill, Scott McClellan, who makes a deer caught in the headlights look like the Lion King, was sent out to insist that even though the nation's chief weapons inspector (and his successor Charles Duelfer) are steadfastly confident that Iraq had fewer lethal hardware than the Dalai Lama, the president and his gaggle of paranoid political appointees still believed otherwise.
Nuclear Gibberish
Indeed, McClellan, speaking for the president of Zircon 5, adamantly maintained the administration was still confident - despite Kay, Duelfer and Secretary of State Colin Powell's statements to the contrary - that Iraq possessed vast stores of weapons of mass destruction.
In an attempt to obfuscate the circumstances surrounding Bush's apparent AWOL from reality when it came to the invasion of a foreign country, the deaths of thousands of its citizens, the estrangement from the world community and the loss of American life, the White House has seized upon whether anyone in the administration ever made the precise claim that Saddam posed an ``imminent threat.''
But that is parsing on a scale that makes Bill Clinton look like Mr. Rogers .
In the end, it depends on your definition of bold-faced chutzpah White House hooey.
The overriding predicate for going to war with Iraq began and ended on the issue of weapons of mass destruction.
It was the mantra blathered by every senior member of the Bush administration on the Sunday talk shows, in speeches, including the State of Union address (remember the Niger nuclear gibberish) and before the United Nations.
And now these Heritage Foundation frat boys want you to believe that for all their patronizing hubris, they were led astray by CIA career paper pushers?
How comforting it must be for the families of the U.S. service personnel who have died in Iraq to know that their loved ones gave their lives because the president and his top advisers were led like lemmings into war.
What does this mean? The buck passing stops at Langley?
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Well, that's kinda what it looks like, huh??? :d: :d: :d: :d:
DANIEL RUTH
Published: Feb 1, 2004
So much for the buck stopping with the president of the United States.
Why, there hasn't been this much action hiding behind the first desk since Monica Lewinsky last delivered a pizza.
Gracious, if former weapons inspector David Kay were any more disingenuous, he would be the perfect candidate for ``The Bachelor.''
It certainly wasn't a good week for George W. Bush, as Kay stepped down from the search for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, having spent $900 million and not even coming up with so much as a whoopee cushion to validate the White House's vanity war against Iraq.
But then in an attempt to provide some political cover to Bush, Kay asserted that the president of the United States himself may well have been duped into believing Iraq possessed stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons by an overzealous intelligence community eager to go to war.
Towel Snappers
This was hardly uplifting news. After all, when you've been burdened your entire political career with a reputation for being less engaged than Sonny von Bulow, the last thing you need is someone like David Kay suggesting you were little more than a Three Card Monte mark at the mercy of the spook community.
Of course, the alternative was hardly any better.
How would it look for the president to argue he wasn't duped, but instead participated in misleading the American people by using phony data to justify a war, which up to now has taken the lives of more than 500 U.S. military personnel?
This was a no-brainer (sorry, bad word choice perhaps) for the West Wing towel snappers surrounding the president. This called for a Parallel Universe Red Alert!
White House press shill, Scott McClellan, who makes a deer caught in the headlights look like the Lion King, was sent out to insist that even though the nation's chief weapons inspector (and his successor Charles Duelfer) are steadfastly confident that Iraq had fewer lethal hardware than the Dalai Lama, the president and his gaggle of paranoid political appointees still believed otherwise.
Nuclear Gibberish
Indeed, McClellan, speaking for the president of Zircon 5, adamantly maintained the administration was still confident - despite Kay, Duelfer and Secretary of State Colin Powell's statements to the contrary - that Iraq possessed vast stores of weapons of mass destruction.
In an attempt to obfuscate the circumstances surrounding Bush's apparent AWOL from reality when it came to the invasion of a foreign country, the deaths of thousands of its citizens, the estrangement from the world community and the loss of American life, the White House has seized upon whether anyone in the administration ever made the precise claim that Saddam posed an ``imminent threat.''
But that is parsing on a scale that makes Bill Clinton look like Mr. Rogers .
In the end, it depends on your definition of bold-faced chutzpah White House hooey.
The overriding predicate for going to war with Iraq began and ended on the issue of weapons of mass destruction.
It was the mantra blathered by every senior member of the Bush administration on the Sunday talk shows, in speeches, including the State of Union address (remember the Niger nuclear gibberish) and before the United Nations.
And now these Heritage Foundation frat boys want you to believe that for all their patronizing hubris, they were led astray by CIA career paper pushers?
How comforting it must be for the families of the U.S. service personnel who have died in Iraq to know that their loved ones gave their lives because the president and his top advisers were led like lemmings into war.
What does this mean? The buck passing stops at Langley?
********************************
Well, that's kinda what it looks like, huh??? :d: :d: :d: :d: