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

To: Rick McDougall who wrote (524238)	1/14/2004 11:44:54 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 769667

Folks should print the below excerpt and link, and every time the subject conversation about O'Neill pops up--pass it on. >>>Our report literally looks at words that were produced by the intelligence community, the various intelligence assessments, what administration officials said, and then what United Nations agencies had said prior to the war, and what they found afterwards. All of that, when you look at it, is consistent with Secretary O'Neill's view in the sense that there's a pattern whereby administration officials' statements go well beyond what the intelligence said in terms of the specificity of the threat from Iraq. One way to look at that, but we don't do this in the report, is to say that it appears as if people knew what they wanted the outcome to be and were looking for any kind of scintilla of evidence they could find to back the policy that they had already determined. That's the essence of what O'Neill was saying. We don't go into that, but we provide raw material for people to make their own judgments.<<< nytimes.com There is no better advice for getting an assessment to what happened than to make your own judgment based on reading the raw material provided in the above referenced report. Anyone else like a report which says judge it for itself, rather presenting a summary on how it should be judged? Frankly, I think enough already has come out showing that the Bush-Cheney Administration's reasons for the war were dead-on bogus. It's time for a true and deep investigation into what caused it; and to ask why we, the people, got fed all dabaloney from the presidency on down. My position is that America, were it to use the power and influence from self-criticism, could show itself different from other nations and, thus, more willing and able to lead. It's from this that true leadership is found. Perhaps maybe the time has come for America to lead with voice and reason rather than with a necessity of economic power reliant and contingent upon military might.