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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (110103)	12/4/2007 7:55:41 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, >It looks like the Bush Warmongers just got an intelligence report that makes them look like what they are, idiots.< This is the kind of comment that reveals your extreme bias. Clinton (and much of the rest of the world) saw and believed the exact same intelligence on Iraq that the Bush administration believed regarding WMDs. (I'm not talking about the spin etc.., just the basic belief that they still had them and the capability to make more) Have you ever heard Clinton's comments or listened to Hillary's comments just prior to the war and while Bill was president? That intelligence was apparently in error (or the WMDs were moved or destroyed during the buildup to war). That error caused a lot of warranted criticism of the intelligence community. Now the intelligence community seems to have gotten it wrong again. That begs a very simple question. If they got it wrong twice, why should we trust that they actually have it right now? Furthermore, assuming they do have it right now, that's a lot better than taking action and then finding out we were wrong again. I'm celebrating this news because I think military action in Iran now would have clearly been a huge mistake even though I think we'd all be better off if Iran didn't develop nukes. Obviously, there is something VERY wrong with our ability to gather intelligence in these middle eastern countries, but I doubt it's specific to this administration. More than likely, it's the result of 20 or more years of the kind of consistent mismanagement typical of everything government tries to do. When communism fell, the government probably wasn't nimble enough or capable of making the required changes to deal with new world. That includes the 8 years of Clinton.