Home > Bush Embraces WMD Report that Lays Blame on CIA
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by Ben Frank
President Bush was pleased to accept the report from the WMD
Commission, and he agrees with their conclusions- all the mistakes (wmd
lies) were the fault of the intelligence community. Neither Bush nor
anyone in his administration was criticized by the Commission appointed
by Mr. Bush.
The 9 member commission was headed by retired Republican judge Laurence
Silberman and former Democratic Senator Chuck Robb who said, "They got
wrong the critical judgments with respect to nuclear weapons,
with respect to biological weapons and with respect to chemical
weapons."
The commission largely blamed the ’intelligence community’ for the
false WMD claims, and unsurprisingly they failed to mention the glaring
facts that contradict this veridict.
The infamous "Saddam bought Uranium from Niger" claim.
If you recall, Tenet advised that this claim be removed from a Bush
speech in Cincinatti in Oct 2002. Then Bush delivered this exact line
in his 2003 State of the Union Address. Later Condi explained the
’mistake’ on Meet the Press- it was "three plus months later, uh,
people simply forgot..." Who forgot? This is a pretty big mistake, has
anyone ever been fired? Shouldn’t Bush have come out a little red-faced
and said, oh sorry about that ’Saddam bought uranium’ thing... guess that turned
out to be a cheap forgery- he he.
Bush failed to apologize after this known falsehood was told to the
nation. He was given a second opportunity to correct this on March 8,
2003- two weeks before the war when the IAEA released their findings on Saddam-Uranium-Niger connection. The forgery was so bad it was laughable. Outdated letterhead, wrong names and signatures
– there was no need to even investigate if it was a forgery because it
was obvious at first glance. All the IAEA officials needed was a few
hours on Google to verify that their memories served them correctly.
The Bush appointed Commission reports that June 17, 2003 a CIA memo
stated that since learning that the Iraq-Niger uranium deal was based
on false documents earlier this spring we no longer believe... that
Iraq pursued uranium from abroad. The Commission concludes that:
"The Intelligence Community should have reviewed the documents to evaluate their authenticity as soon as they were made available in early October 2002, rather than waiting over six months to do so."
But... but... that’s outrageous! An absurd excuse. The IAEA officials identified these documents as forgeries - a task that their experts were able to complete in just a matter of hours.... "total bullshit".
The forged documents had the wrong signatures on the wrong letterhead!
Now the Bush appointed commission declares that it’s Tenet’s fault that
the President used these forgeries to threaten America and launch an
unnecessary war. This is just another of the Bush administration’s lame
excuses that defy logic.
UAVs capable of attacking the East Coast
The commission also blamed the intelligence community for the false UAV
claims, but they fail to mention how important this was to the Senate
vote authorizing the war.
Senator Bill Nelson: I, along with nearly every Senator in this Chamber, in that secure room of this Capitol complex, was not only told there were weapons of mass destruction — specifically chemical and biological — but I was looked at straight in the face and told that Saddam Hussein had the means of delivering those biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction by unmanned drones, called UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles. Further, I was looked at straight in the face and told that UAVs could be launched from ships off the Atlantic coast to attack eastern seaboard cities of the United States.Is it any wonder that I concluded there was an imminent peril to the United States?
Which member of the Bush administration looked Senator Nelson in the
face and told him about this imminent threat of UAVs capable of
attacking the East Coast?
This WMD Commission Report amounts to little more than a ridiculous
cover-up- a bunch of Bush yes men conclude- "Sure enough, it was
Tenet’s fault." Poor George and Dick were embarassed by the CIA’s
faulty intelligence. If the CIA had done a better job, Dick and Bush
would never have said:
"The evidence indicates that Iraq has reconstituted it’s nukyular weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nukular scientists, a group he calls his Nukyular Mujaheddin, his Nukyular Holy Warriors."
– George W. Bush
"Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
- George W. Bush"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons
of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use
them against our friends, against our allies and against us."
- Dick Cheney"Before September the eleventh many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained."
– George W. BushAudio Memories (right click —> save as)
Bush, Dick & Colin’s pre-war ’intelligence’ - mp3
George Bush: In his own words - mp3Slideshow: Lies and the Consequences
The Heart of Iraq (3.2 mb avi video)
One of the few straight talking Congressman left, Dennis Kucinich had this to say about the WMD report:
"Today, we are once again reminded of what we already know: that this Administration deliberately mislead this nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq."
The WMD Commission confirms that the false claims of imminent threat
were exposed before the war- as such, basic logic begs the question:
Bush’s hand-picked commission did not address this issue- no wonder Bush was so pleased with their findings.
It should come as no surprise that Republicans heartily accept this
report’s lame excuses, but why does the media let Bush off the hook
again and again?
At what point does it become clear that the media is still dutifully
reporting Bush propaganda now, just as they did before the war.
And even more stunning than the media complicity is the collective
silence of most Democrats in Congress. Why do the Demcratic ’leaders’
in Congress roll over just like the media lapdogs?
At what point does it become clear that Congress is either in on the corruption, or they are criminally negligent and must be removed along with Bush & Co as they refuse to hold their partners in crime accountable.
Do you really think another phony election will solve our problems?
Forum posts
2 April 2005, 01:38
looks like Veterans for Peace has the right idea, and if congress won’t hold this Administration accountable, we will hold them accountable!
ST. LOUIS—On March 30, a national veterans’ organization called for the removal of President George W. Bush and Vice-President Richard Cheney for crimes the group charges were committed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
In a letter sent to each member of the US House and Senate, Veterans For Peace (VFP) stated that “...This administration’s war on Iraq, in addition to being increasingly unpopular among Americans, is an unmistakable violation of our Constitution and federal law which you have sworn to uphold. In our system, the remedy for such high crimes is clear: this administration must be impeached.”
David Cline, a decorated Vietnam War combat veteran and VFP president, said in a prepared statement to the press, "We do not make this call lightly and as former members of the US armed forces, we take our responsibilities as citizens very seriously. For that reason we believe that when our government conducts a war of aggression on Iraq and commits a growing and appalling series of what must legally be considered war crimes and crimes against humanity in the execution of that war, it violates Article VI of the US Constitution, the War Crimes Act of 1996 (18 U.S.C. § 2441), and numerous international treaties which are legally binding on our nation."
Cline continued, "We are not the first group to call for impeachment. We have decided to add our voice to the call. All the reasons given for the invasion have shown themselves to be half-truths or misleading. The conflict continues to drag on taking the lives of our soldiers and innocent Iraqis. It is clear that George Bush does not intend to change course in an effort to right this great wrong. He has had enough time in his second term to begin a shift and he has not. It is time to remove him from office."
Veterans For Peace is seeking individual and organizational supporters to work jointly on the effort to impeach the resident.
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/0...
I’m in.
2 April 2005, 01:53
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://www.recallthecongress.com/
2 April 2005, 03:48
If the imminent threat was exposed before the war, then why did Bush launch the war anyway?
!!!
2 April 2005, 16:36
Here’s the real spit in the face to americans though, he gave tenet a medal of freedom. So wich is it? the cia(his dad’s old outfit) is *cough* dumb and you gave them a medal of freedom for it or the cia is smart and your shifting the blame on them because you got caught using information you were told was bogus.
When they were planning to invade Iraq, WMD was the only thing they could agree on, according to wolfowitz, that’s what they used to "sell" the war and the corp. media obliged( wmdthefilm.com ). This thing was botched from the get go, allot of us warned our people by protesting trying to create awareness, but it’s this hard-headed "stay the course" mentality of conservatives that does not allow room for opposing ideas and feels that an alternate opinion is a direct attack on their "conservative movement"(ie:neo-corporatism).
It’s a racket and everyone knows it. Now how do we convince the corporate media to stop carrying on with the lie that is leading to senseless american deaths. We can do something positive, but it needs to start with everyone accepting what is self-evident. You don’t have to give up "your way of life", or become a liberal, you just have to stop worshipping bush.
Worshipping leaders leads to blindness when it comes to accepting truth. Bush is not a leader and never was. He can’t lead himself out of a paper bag, never mind Iraq. He’s too busy trying to sell us another recipe cooked on wall street, "save social security, invest it in the US dollar bubble"
The medal of freedom should be taken from Tenet, he is a disgrace, he was just out on the scene for bush a few months ago saying the internet was like "the wild west" and that eventually "it would have to yield to governance and control"
No Mr. Tenet, you are just experiencing a relatively new phenomenon called "internet embarassment".
The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, recognizes exceptional meritorious service. The medal was established by President Truman in 1945 to recognize notable service in the war. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy reintroduced it as an honor for distinguished civilian service in peacetime.
But wait, what’s this?
Doubts on Weapons Were Dismissed
As former secretary of state Colin L. Powell worked into the night in a New York hotel room, on the eve of his February 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, CIA officers sent urgent e-mails and cables describing grave doubts about a key charge he was going to make.
– http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...
Hmmm, what’s going on here?
The secret plan for Iraq’s oil
– http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programm...
So we tortured, raped, and murdered people in Iraq to give them a taste of american democracy, is that the deal now? We gave Iraq a phony election, corruption, fake press, and a police state. Sounds like D.C. on innauguration day. The only thing we’re missing is a resistance, because we like it this way, apparently Iraqis don’t.
Maybe we’ll have better luck with Iran, bush might want to read this one first:
Another country
As rumours persist of US plans to invade Iran, Rageh Omaar, the face of the BBC during the Iraq war, visits Tehran - and finds a nation far removed from the one George Bush seems to fear
– http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/re...
2 April 2005, 23:50
NYT & WMD: Profiles In Timidity
Spread across two columns of the front page, two full pages inside and within a scathing editorial, The New York Times gave comprehensive coverage to the report of the presidential commission studying intelligence on WMD.
They left out just one little detail: themselves.
– http://villagevoice.com/blogs/press...
But remarkably, in 6,600 words of news and opinion, the Times does not mention its own much-maligned role in selling the idea that Iraq posed a threat. There is not a single word on that.