Foreign Affairs Discussion Group Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Neocon who wrote (149126)	10/26/2004 4:00:15 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) of 281500

"She was also aware that at the highest level of the intelligence community, there was great confidence that these tubes were for centrifuges."... IF you are going to pose her bureaucratese as having real substance, given all the other facts, then lets be equally speculative: What Condi said, translated: 1. "we" (the admin / Cheney / Rumsfeld) had this special Office of Special Plans set up so that they could provide filtered intel to us, "we" only want to see nothing but "facts" and innuendo that support our case to go to war. OSP have some protection, some "plausible deniability" but not enough. So... 2. "We" had Tenet pass the same facts to us as a "slam dunk". Georgey B even coined the term "slam dunk" for Tenet. This allows "Condi" to pin the blame on Tenet (who'd agreed to retire if things got nasty). As for the rest, show me something that proves independent experts from the DOE favored the administration's desired analysis. I can show you incident after incident after incident where DOE, CIA and State Dept intel experts squashed the primary theory supporting the Nuclear WMD smoking gun argument. Who am I to believe? A political appointee? Or the real people whose job it is to make determinations? In this case, I will take the word of the scientist who actually builds nuclear centrifuges over Condeleeza Rice, any day. Not to worry: when Bush loses, there will be hearings and the details revealed will set the "neocon" (I don't even consider Cheney/Wolfowitz/Feith etc as neocons.. rabid-cons perhaps) agenda back decades. The internal bickering between the various conservative factions will be very interesting and entertaining. Eventually, something better will come out of the mess.. perhaps something I can even support.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next