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

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (110119)	12/7/2007 1:59:46 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, The comments Bush made between the time he was briefed on the existence of the report and when he actually received it and made it public are pretty much irrelevant. For one thing, the report was still being finalized, verified, and discussed between the various agencies at the time. Israel is still calling the report wrong and is upset that their input did not sway what is says. So between August and December, people may have known what was probably going to be in the report, but it was still being discussed and wasn't final. Otherwise it would have already been released to him in August and made public right then and there. Second, commentary like he was making is called rhetoric. In case you didn't notice, the comments from Ahmadinejad have hardly been any less aggressive. Given that Iran now supposedly has no active program to create weapons, he must be even dumber than Saddam. Only fools and the media take this kind of stuff seriously. It's about actions. Expect this kind of thing to continue because the goals are unchanged. Only the details have changed. The fact is we didn't go to war, didn't even come close to going to war, and didn't even do anything aggressive. The only people that care about this event are level headed unbiased individuals that are thankful the US intelligence community "may" have done its job before something stupid happened, those that remain concerned about our constantly failing intelligence capabilities, and political hacks that don't care about anything other than attacking the administration no matter what happens because they want to achieve political gain. For every Frenchman that is pissed off about Bush's rhetoric(and I doubt there are many unless there are more dumb ones than I thought), there are 10 Israelis that don't believe the new intelligence report and are pissed off that he made it public when he was not required to.