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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (456212)	9/10/2003 2:39:02 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 769670

"The best defense of the Bush people is that either our intelligence services were stupidly wrong, or that we were so inept that we believed the Pentatgon basement group when we should have paid heed to the cautions of our professional analysts in the CIA and the defense dept. " Can you prove all of this is factual, or could you be ...l..l...l...mistaken?

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (456212)	9/10/2003 2:41:55 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

False dilemma. For example, on the uranium claim, we relied on material from British intelligence. It was not even clear that it referred to the Niger allegations. Besides, I read review in venues like The New York Review of Books constantly. Even in favorable reviews, it is not unusual for the reviewer to point out a fistful of errors that had not been caught, and it rarely held against the author. Similarly, in the environment of collaborative drafting of a presidential speech, where the president relies heavily on aides to get the dry, factual material down, it is not unusual for there to be misstatements.........