Chief Designer of Iraq War says he Doesn't Have to Account for bad intelligence
His own? Perhaps that's what he means.
To reward him for his stunning foresight, of course, Bush put him in charge of the world bank.
In the real world when you screw up so badly a lot of people die for your mistake, theyat least pack your stuff in a box, take your key and escort you to the door. But in Bushco grave incompetence is rewarded with promotion. Just like Condoliesalot, the National Security Advisor during 9/11, was promoted to secretary of state, or Alberto Gonzales, the lawyer who appears to have devised the new rues on torture and wiped his repiglikkkan butt with the Geneva conventions, was made attorney general.
It's interesting how NO ONE in the administration feels any obligation to account for the Iraq debacle. Rather they have chosen to continue to tell the public it is strategically successful and to attack anyone who points out just how dangerous and destructive to us it really is.
And there will never be any accountability for the "failed intelligence", because it did not fail - it was FIXED. And that's very different
Only when questioners pressed him about Iraq would Wolfowitz address the subject. "How do you account for the intelligence failures regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?" he was asked.
"Well," he said after a long pause, "I don't have to."
Being Wolfie means not having to say you're sorry. Nearly three years ago, he offered some of the most memorable forecasts about Iraq: that it was "wildly off the mark" to think hundreds of thousands of troops would be needed to pacify a post war Iraq; that the Iraqis "are going to welcome us as liberators"; and that "it is just wrong" to assume that the United States would have to fund the Iraq war.
To reward him for his stunning foresight, of course, Bush put him in charge of the world bank.
In the real world when you screw up so badly a lot of people die for your mistake, theyat least pack your stuff in a box, take your key and escort you to the door. But in Bushco grave incompetence is rewarded with promotion. Just like Condoliesalot, the National Security Advisor during 9/11, was promoted to secretary of state, or Alberto Gonzales, the lawyer who appears to have devised the new rues on torture and wiped his repiglikkkan butt with the Geneva conventions, was made attorney general.
It's interesting how NO ONE in the administration feels any obligation to account for the Iraq debacle. Rather they have chosen to continue to tell the public it is strategically successful and to attack anyone who points out just how dangerous and destructive to us it really is.
And there will never be any accountability for the "failed intelligence", because it did not fail - it was FIXED. And that's very different
posted by TheFuriousGourmet | 5:11 AM
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I wonder if that will pass next time I take a mis-step at the University. Can you explain yourself? "Umm ... no."
Alrighty, then, don't let the door hit you on the way out! Oh, those silly powers that be, they get away with the darndest things!
That man is a dangerous lunatic. And he combs his hair with spit.
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