WMD and faulty intelligence?

OK so this has probably been covered but if the intelligence was so bad, as Shrub claims, regarding the phantom WMD's...
...then why hasn't he fired anyone in the intelligence community? Why isn't he pissed at having his administration and his own credibility damaged?

I mean we all know that he wanted to believe the stories but c'mon.
At least he could put on a show of disgust.

What is the logic behind just shrugging it off?
Does he still think they will find WMD's?

Yep, being buried in Northern Iraq as we read. Thread on it yesterday, WMD before Easter! :party:

Reliable?

Anyway, when the manufactured goods turn up, UN weapons inspectors will have to have a good hard look at the nuts and bolts.

Unless Bush won't let inspectors in. In which case, it might be time to invade Iraq.

Oh, wait a minute.

Planting WMD's won't work. They have taken too long to find them for anyone to believe there was an imminent threat.

Hell, they never really believed their was WMD's in Iraq. That was all spin. In Bush's first NSC meeting, ways to over-throw Hussein was discussed and the al-qaeda threat was ignored. After 9/11, the bushies wanted to attack Iraq first, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. That alone should tell you that they were determined to invade Iraq and they wasn't going to let little things like the truth get in the way of them getting their war on!

If they were to start firing people, then those people would start talking and point the finger at the higher-up who knowingly misused the intelligence. That's already happening to a degree. Several retired cia agents, O'neil, that gal that worked in the Pentagon. Watch 60 minutes Sunday. A new person is speaking out. It was posted earlier this evening.

they feel like they're above the law, and they know they got away with it. So they just don't give a shit.

It's too much work to feign anger and disgust.

And why fire anyone, when the people you'd have to fire have helped you tell the lies anyway?

Oh, no, everything's just peachy if you're GWB and Dickless Cheney. Your buddies in the oil business are all making record profits and slapping you on the back.

Life is good.

care as long as there's a big flag waving in our faces

That is exactly right, they just wave the flag and scream it is for O'l Glory forgetting the details like truth and liberty.

The Bush machine manufactured the Intel they wanted to hear. If analyst delivered information the Bush junta didn't want to hear, the analyst ended up out of a job.

Hans Blix has now admitted it is most likely Iraq has not had WMDs since 1994. The year Gen Kimmel said they were destroyed. That is according to the CIA debriefing when he defected to the US. That was revealed in the UNISCOM report many of us here at DU kept writing about telling our lawmakers not to allow Bush to attack.

So not only did they have to manufacture some really faulty Intel. They had to ignore some really good Intel