A scandal greater than Watergate

[brainshrub]

Sorry if this is a dupe.

A scandal greater than Watergate
http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_feb1.html

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Either President George Bush, and secretaries Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld, lied about the global threat they claimed Iraq posed, and deceived Congress and the American people. Or, they were grossly misinformed by their intelligence experts and must be judged fools of the first order.
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Now, the White House is trying to blame the Central Intelligence Agency for the Iraq fiasco.

CIA director George Tenet may have wronged his agency and the nation by not going public to debunk White House war propaganda over Iraq.

But active and retired CIA officers kept warning the public and media (including this writer) that intelligence on Iraq had been deeply manipulated and politicized by a cabal of pro-war neo-conservative ideologues in the Pentagon and the vice president's office.

They were ignored.
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This OpEd summs it all up.

[never cry wolf]

1. You beat me to it...

I just heard Randi Rhodes mention this so I looked it up and added to my archives, nice article.

[loudnclear]

2. Why doesn't Tenant and all the Intel elites just resign in protest?

That would be a great embarrassment to the regime now in charge and these intel guy and gals can live off of a good retirement. It is appalling that Bush can get away with blaming the intel community for something the PNAC was determined to do. Have they no shame?

There should be a riot among the intel community because after the Plame incident and now this blame game, they should see that the regime does not respect them but is only using them for personal political gain and not national security.

[Mari333]

3. wow great article

I sent Margolis an email once..he did write back..I wanted him to touch up front, close and personal, a mom whose stepson is being sent over there
He was very nice, curt, and polite.
If he is getting hate mail, its not such a bad idea to send him thank yous for his column.

[HootieMcBoob]

4. You're right

There have been a lot of good editorials but that one is the whole thing, everything in a nutshell. The best summation of our situation today that I've read.

[yellowcanine]

5. I wish the Wash Post or NY Times had the cojones to reprint this

But I don't expect to see pigs flying anytime soon.

[Karenina]

6. Go Eric!

:bounce: A snippet:

"Do you feel vindicated?" a radio show host asked me last week. "You predicted a year ago that no WMD would be found in Iraq."

Not vindicated. Just dismayed.

Dismayed by the continuing widespread indifference - or even approval - by many Americans of the aggression against Iraq that violated international law and basic norms of civilized behaviour.

Dismayed by the craven attitude of the U.S. Congress and mainstream media.

And deeply concerned by growing hatred for the U.S. around the globe.

Too few Americans seem troubled their president either lied or blundered into a horrible mess in Iraq, so far costing 520 American dead, nearly 10,000 casualties and $200 billion US for 2003-04."

[HuckleB]

7. Sweet column!

[brainshrub]

8. kick

[Blue_Roses]

9. Excellent article

it's so sad that the US is hated by so many other countries because of what Bush has done to this country.