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

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (648682)	10/20/2004 5:30:25 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush wanted to believe in the existance of WMD. One of his prime influences and cheerleaders in this matter, Paul Wolfowitz, has as much as admitted publicly in an interview in Vanity Fair that the WMD issue was the one settled on to give as the rational because it was a seller within the bureaucracy. There is a pattern of Bush's puppeteers manipulating intelligence, suppressing dissent, discouraging argument. Don't forget that George W. Bush said, even when the search had proceeded and come up with nothing, "We found them!" He was referring to the canvas-sided weather balloon trucks, about which State and CIA were sceptical, to put it mildly. About the absence of WMD, given what the invasion is costing this country, Bush's opinion is, "So what's the difference?" He meant that whether there were WMD or intentions or the desire someday, somehow, to have them, it was all the same to him! It would not have been all the same to Congress. A huge consideration in invading Iraq, according to Wolfowitz, an invasion which, as Pat Robertson reports, Bush idiotically believed would result in no casualties, was that it would allow us to get troops out of Saudi Arabia, where our presence was, awkwardly, very unpopular with radical Islamists like OBL. There are other reasons Bush et al were eager for this war. "He tried to kill my Dad," comes to mind. No cost in casualties comes to mind. Oil comes to mind. The whisperings of God in his ear come to mind. When Bush discovered that there were no WMD he was not even mildly enraged at having been given such grievously incorrect information. He failed to punish, or even reprimand, or even chide, his sources of misinformation. Bush's last words on George Tenet: "He's done a superb job."