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Politics : Idea Of The Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (46144)	5/15/2004 11:20:36 PM
From: malibuca	Respond to of 50167

Seymour Hersh's damning expose Yes, I read this earlier and it is a remarkable piece of journalism. What is striking about Bush is that he requires no accountability from members of his administration no matter how egregious the mistakes that were made. No one has been fired for the false statement about Niger in the State of the Union speech, for blowing the cover of Joe Wilson's wife being a CIA under cover agent, for the intelligence failures regarding the absence of WMD, for the absence of planning for the aftermath of the Iraqi war and for the detainee abuse outrages (other than underlings in the last instance). The people who have been either fired, shunted aside or attacked are those who did not follow the party line such as Paul O'Neill for saying that deficits would balloon if there was a second tax cut, Lawrence Lindsey for stating that the Iraqi war would cost more than the administration claimed, Shinseki for saying that the aftermath to the Iraqi war would require a minimum of 250,000 troops and Richard Clarke for saying that the Iraqi war would be a distraction from the war against terrorism. Hersh said something very interesting, during an interview, after his last piece on the abuses. He was asked if there had been a cover-up when it came to the abuses that had occurred either at the White House or the Pentagon. He said that he did not think so but what was generally known was the Bush Administration did not like to hear anything that was contrary to the prevailing wisdom that they were propounding and therefore information that they should have known was not made available to them if it was viewed as unwelcome for fear of the consequences to the messenger of the ill tidings.