Sunday, September 10, 2006
Compare and Contrast
Big Dick had a whole show with Punkinhead this morning. As has been his habit since his strokes, he lied like a rug. But occasionally he did speak truthfully.
President Bush would have ordered an invasion of Iraq even if the CIA had told him that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.As a consequence of their single minded obsession with a toothless Saddam this happened.
On the videotape obtained by the CIA, bin Laden is seen confidently instructing his party how to dig holes in the ground to lie in undetected at night. A bomb dropped by a U.S. aircraft can be seen exploding in the distance. "We were there last night," bin Laden says without much concern in his voice. He was in or headed toward Pakistan, counterterrorism officials think.This would be completely unacceptable if it were done by a real president but was just fine with Our Dear Embattled Leader. It's enough to make a cynic think that ODEL never wanted to catch OBL. That ODEL needed OBL to be his "Emmanuel Goldstein". But the likely reason is that Republicans never really were any good at National Security.
That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council.
"I was appalled when I learned about it," said Leverett, who has become an outspoken critic of the administration's counterterrorism policy. "I don't know of anyone who thought it was a good idea. It's very likely that bin Laden would be dead or in American custody if we hadn't done that."
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