Pretty Solid Proof that Bush Didn't Lie

You may have noticed that I'm not posting much on weekends anymore. Today, however, I noticed this story from The VRWC Information Department Fox News. Let's take a look:

President Bush will sign an executive order to establish a full-blown investigation of U.S. intelligence failures in Iraq, a senior White House official said Sunday.

The investigation will look at what the United States believed it knew before the war against Saddam Hussein's regime and what has been determined since the invasion.

Now, this raises an interesting question: If Bush lied, why would he be investigating this? Has he gone back to being a buffoon after being an evil genius since the war started? What other information do we have here?

Its mandate will be broader than simply what went wrong in Iraq, the official said. It also will look into issues such as gathering intelligence on stateless regimes, such as Al Qaeda, and weapons proliferation.

Wow, even more stuff that Bush supposedly lied about! You'd almost think he made some kind of mistake instead of intentionally misleading the entire civilized world!

Of course, the Loyal Opposition™ can't accept that every problem isn't Dubya's fault, so they've already begun the spinning. Check this out:

David Albright, a former weapons inspector, said the administration could use the commission as a way to delay judgments about the intelligence community and the administration's use of the intelligence information.

The fact that this idiot was a weapons inspector could explain why we didn't find anything. Does he realize that delaying judgments about the intelligence community will help those judgements to be ACCURATE? Does he know what "accurate" means?

"The bottom line for them [the Bush administration] is to delay the day of reckoning about their use of the weapons of mass destruction information," Albright said.

I love this. He's so convinced that the administration knew they had bad intelligence that he isn't even willing to let them discover the truth. Let's hear it for integrity.

"David Kay can blame the CIA and say 'Oh, I made all these comments based on what I heard from the intelligence community.' President Bush can't do that. He's the boss."

Uh, yeah, he is the boss, but he's also not in charge of gathering information. He gets it from people like David Kay and George Tenet, and they're the ones who should take the blame when the intelligence community f**ks up. The president does have other things to deal with, you know.

Albright said he disagreed with anyone who claims the president is blameless, or that anyone who had the intelligence at Bush's disposal would have reached the conclusion that war was warranted. "I was so involved in the whole debate [over weapons of mass destruction] and it's just not true," he said.

Notice how he doesn't say why it's not true. That says a lot about the kind of information he may have had. In any case, I find it hard to believe that the entire international community was convinced that Iraq had WMD if the intelligence was that bad. From what I've heard, even Saddam thought he had 'em.

I'd really like to see an example of just how much intelligence is needed to justify a war. Are we supposed to treat every country like North Korea, waiting until we know they have nuclear weapons, and then relying on diplomacy because they might USE those weapons?

Personally, I think it's a lot more effective when you go after these regimes before they have a chance to become an imminent threat, and in any case, how can anyone say that Bush wasn't justified in his actions against Iraq?

I can't wait until the investigators conclude that Bush isn't to blame, and the left accuses them of being Rove plants.

It'll happen. You know it will.

Posted by CD on February 1, 2004 06:39 PM
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