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Politics : Fair and Balanced-'Duties Of a Democracy' -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (983)	3/26/2008 3:16:30 PM
From: Max Fletcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1262

Fair enough, jlallen. I would agree that in their hearts, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc probably think they were/are doing the right thing for the country. It's also true that there was much dispute/uncertainty in the intelligence circles of what Iraq did/didn't have. That said, it's clear that Cheney, in particular, clung to and insisted on certain allegations that the CIA had by then completely disproved. Cheney had Rumsfeld set up a Pentagon-intelligence apparatus that was much more 'accommodating' in accepting hearsay from unreliable sources and calling it fact. Someone as smart as Cheney had to know some of these things were at best questionable, yet he repeated them publicly as fact in that surly sureness that he projects ("we 'know' Atta met with Iraqi agents in Prague ..." Beyond all that, I think the even more egregious errors were in the implementation of post-war Iraq. Rumsfeld insisted on control (vs State), he and Cheney intentionally shut State Dept experts out ... and they did not have the mental flexibility to recognize that their conceptions were not panning out. Cheers ...