{"id":1981,"date":"2007-04-29T07:06:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2007-04-29T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T00:29:50","slug":"now-he-tells-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"“Now he tells us.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Like an Air Ball
\nby Maureen Dowd, New York Times<\/em>, 28 April 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

He says Condi panicked in October 2002 and made him call a Times reporter, Alison Mitchell, who covered the Congressional debate about invading Iraq. In essence, he hypocritically told Alison to disregard the conclusions of his own agency, which had said that the links between Saddam and terrorist groups were tenuous, and that Saddam would take the extreme step of joining with Islamic fanatics only if he thought the U.S. was about to attack him. His nose growing as long as his cigar, he said nothing in the C.I.A. report contradicted the president’s case for war.<\/p>\n

“In retrospect,”? Slam writes, “I shouldn’t have talked to the New York Times reporter at Condi’s request. By making public comments in the middle of a contentious political debate, I gave the impression that I was becoming a partisan player.”?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tenet Tries to Shift the Blame. Don’t Buy It.
\nBy Michael F. Scheuer, Washington Post<\/em>, 29 April 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But as with Rice and the warnings in the summer of 2001: Now he tells us. At this late date, the Bush-bashing that Tenet’s book will inevitably stir up seems designed to rehabilitate Tenet in his first home, the Democratic Party. He seems to blame the war on everyone but Bush (who gave Tenet the Medal of Freedom) and former secretary of state Colin L. Powell (who remains the Democrats’ ideal Republican). Tenet’s attacks focus instead on the walking dead, politically speaking: the glowering and unpopular Cheney; the hapless Rice; the band of irretrievably discredited bumblers who used to run the Pentagon, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul D. Wolfowitz and Douglas J. Feith; their neoconservative acolytes such as Richard Perle; and the die-hard geopolitical fantasists at the Weekly Standard and National Review.They’re all culpable, of course. But Tenet’s attempts to shift the blame won’t wash. At day’s end, his exercise in finger-pointing is designed to disguise the central, tragic fact of his book. Tenet in effect is saying that he knew all too well why the United States should not invade Iraq, that he told his political masters and that he was ignored. But above all, he’s saying that he lacked the moral courage to resign and speak out publicly to try to stop our country from striding into what he knew would be an abyss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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