MUST READ!!! Matcom's Dad (Ex CIA) Weighs In On "SPIES WHO PUSHED FOR WAR" [View All]

on edit: WOOOHOOOOOO I can edit the Subject Line! :bounce:
DAD'S RESPONSE???? (sorry for the CAPS):

"IF all this is true, it's a national nightmare! I never thought I would see the day that I would be so ashamed of my Government and a sitting President."


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The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives in the top rungs of the administration, the Pentagon and at the White House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney.

The ideologically driven network functioned like a shadow government, much of it off the official payroll and beyond congressional oversight. But it proved powerful enough to prevail in a struggle with the State Department and the CIA by establishing a justification for war.

Mr Tenet has officially taken responsibility for the president's unsubstantiated claim in January that Saddam Hussein's regime had been trying to buy uranium in Africa, but he also said his agency was under pressure to justify a war that the administration had already decided on.

How much Mr Tenet reveals of where that pressure was coming from could have lasting political fallout for Mr Bush and his re-election prospects, which only a few weeks ago seemed impregnable. As more Americans die in Iraq and the reasons for the war are revealed, his victory in 2004 no longer looks like a foregone conclusion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html

my father is beside himself right now. scared SHITLESS! can't say i am too happy about that but at least he is 'awake'.

:thumbsup: Dad. YOU have the knowledge to make an INFORMED decision next time.

PEACE