... and he doesn't care.
He did it again today, repeatedly, in his speech before the Council on Foreign Relations.
He didn't take questions and folk wonder why. It's simple.
He knows he's lying and he doesn't care. And, he's lazy. Speech done, lies told, time for a bike ride.
How comprehensive are the lies? How comprehensive the planning to tell the lies?
I suggest you take the time to read eriposte's latest analysis of Bush and the neoconsters fixing the intelligence around policy, entitled
The White House Iraq Protocol (WHIP) for Deceiving the United States.
Here's one brief segment:
Since the Bush administration policy was to
not publicly reveal any Intelligence Community (IC) disagreements, or challenges to claims made by other members of the IC or the Bush administration, by definition fabrications and false or dubious claims were (allowed to be) freely made in public about Saddam Hussein's alleged capabilities, without presenting to the public the
alternative IC views (which remained classified,
unless they got leaked to the media).
In other words, this protocol explains how Bush and his cabinet stage-managed the run-up to the Iraq war by
deliberately cherry-picking the stove-piped, dubious or false reports that allowed them to falsely portray a
worst case scenario, while hiding from the public (i.e., classifying) information
they received from the IC that challenged those misleading or false claims.
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/006211.phpJust consider one of the consequences of this strategy, Gov Dean:
After all, why would Kerry or any other member of Congress have to read any other intelligence product if the White Paper (October 2002 ) was accurate?
They wouldn't. The fact is that the White Paper
removed almost all the caveats, uncertainties and serious challenges to the WMD claims in the classified Key Judgments in the NIE. In the context of the aluminum tubes issue, as I have discussed previously, the White Paper even removed the alternative views of INR and DOE entirely.
Obviously, anyone who read only the White Paper would not have known that the IC community's nuclear experts strongly disagreed with the Bush administration's and the CIA's claims on the aluminum tubes. The point here is that the accuracy and truthfulness of the intelligence, and the derived conclusions,
should not have been a function of whether the intelligence was classified or declassified. Yet, by dropping the caveats and alternative views, the
White Paper became a document that was deliberately misleading or false - a document that could be easily used to deceive the American public that was not allowed to see the classified version of the paper.
A deceived public could then be pitted against honest members of Congress, to paint the latter as unpatriotic or unserious about national security.http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/006211.phpI realize how busy you are Gov. Dean, so I will be sending you these brief missives, regularly, that contain select items of analysis and commentary that, for the sake of America, I want to be sure someone brings to your attention.
Because, as Nobel laurete Pinter proclaimed today --
"How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice."Agreed.
Thank you for your leadership during the time when each of our fellow citizens must make a decision --
"America, Or Not?".
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