Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Who's Cooking What Intelligence?

The line is recited in rote fashion - Bush cooked pre-war Iraq intelligence.

The case of CIA "leaker" Mary McCarthy brings up the question, Who's cooking what?

FOLLOW-UP: The whole Mary McCarthy brouhaha brings to attention the CIA's disinformation war against the Bush Administration, and it is worth examining the CYA culture of the Agency.

3 comments:

smialek316 said...

I will say it again, because you obviously have trouble understanding: BUSH DID COOK PRE-WAR"INTELLIGENCE"!!!! NO WEAPONS HAVE BEEN FOUND, THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN IRAQ AND 9/11!!!! Therefore, the pre-war "intell" was and is CRAP!! Of course, fighting this war is far more important than things like healthcare, and the high price of gas. Of course the gas price gouging will continue until Bush is out of office, seeing as his Administration is in bed with the petroleum industry.

Monkeesfan said...

smialek316, you say it again and it isn't true. Bush didn't cook anything. The US has found weapons-grade uranium (some of it from Niger), parts and blueprints for an Iraqi centrifuge, chemical weapons labs, some chemical weapons artillery rounds, missile testing sites and missiles, and massive written documentation on Iraqi efforts to build N/B/C weapons, purchase N/B/C materials elsewhere, and work with North Korea on such projects.

"There is no link between Iraq and 9/11." Iraq and Al Qaida were allies in aggression, so 9/11 was an act of war by Iraq.

"Fighting this war is far more important that things like healthcare and the high price of gas." Both are market problems that ultimately require market, not government, solutions. There is no price gouging now, there never was - it is a natural and inevitable spike that will decrease later this year.

Monkeesfan said...

smialek316, on that "price gouging" you claim.....

I'm in Wilkes-Barre for the Pocono 500, and gas is 30 cents per gallon lower than in New England.

Where's the gouging?