The National Review is hardly unbiased.
Again, the facts:
1. Nuclear smoking gun - false, known in AUGUST 2001
2. Office of Special Plans created, staffed almost entirely (what is known of it) by neoconservatives with utterly complete and total ties to Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld. OSP feeds Cheney what he wants to hear, since they are "his" guys.
3. As the Iraq war rhetoric is jacked up, suddenly RICE / CHENEY / BUSH / POWELL are publicly stating that Nuclear Smoking Gun is true, even though almost two years prior this "made up fact" was quite effectively disputed. More than one intelligence expert is quoted as being *shocked* that the president would use false information to justify this conclusion.
The record will stand, regardless of what the National Review prints, or what Frank Gaffney, the editorial writer of the article, says.
Gaffney is no outsider, he was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under Richard Perle. He is *thoroughly* connected to the upper echelons of the political scene in Washington up to and including virtually all of the Executive Branch.
You know those folks right? Those folks fill out the National Security Council, the people that Office of Special Plans sent their "conclusions" (cherry picked facts) to.
Why bring up Gaffney? He's as political and as indebted as they come.
Keep 'em coming Neocon, you are digging a deeper hole with each step. |
