Sunday, June 25, 2006

Give Me One Reason NOT to Impeach Bush

And for this exercise, I'm not accepting my own 1 reason, (because it makes Cheney president).

Today we're hearing from one more expert who was there that the "intelligence" we shared on WMD included the ravings of a lunatic (no, not Rumsfeld, but just as deadly in the long run, the guy we've come to know as Curveball). From today's WaPost:

In late January 2003, as Secretary of State Colin Powell prepared to argue the Bush administration's case against Iraq at the United Nations, veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller sat down with a classified draft of Powell's speech to look for errors. He found a whopper: a claim about mobile biological labs built by Iraq for germ warfare.

Drumheller instantly recognized the source, an Iraqi defector suspected of being mentally unstable and a liar. The CIA officer took his pen, he recounted in an interview, and crossed out the whole paragraph.

A few days later, the lines were back in the speech. Powell stood before the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5 and said: "We have first-hand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails."

The sentence took Drumheller completely by surprise.

"We thought we had taken care of the problem," said the man who was the CIA's European operations chief before retiring last year, "but I turn on the television and there it was, again."

A true testament to the spirit and resilience of the American people and the world will be if we manage to actually survive this bizarre, corrupt and lying administration.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The closer we get to the midterms, the bigger the lies are going to get.

9:03 PM  

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