PNAC, Charles (Chuckie) Krauthammer defends Bush to the end!

[trumad]

er...in the er "Liberal" Washington Post! It was probably written by his mentor at the PNAC, Dickie Cheney!

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It was a combination of Iraqi bluff, deceit and corruption far more bizarre than heretofore suspected. Kay discovered that an increasingly erratic Saddam Hussein had taken over personal direction of WMD programs. But because there was no real oversight, the scientists would go to Hussein, exaggerate or invent their activities, then pocket the funds.

Scientists were bluffing Hussein. Hussein was bluffing the world. The Iraqis were all bluffing each other. Special Republican Guard commanders had no WMDs, but they told investigators that they were sure other guard units did. It was this internal disinformation that the whole outside world missed.

Congress needs to find out why, with all our resources, we had not a clue that this was going on. But Kay makes clear that President Bush was relying on what the intelligence agencies were telling him. Kay contradicts the reckless Democratic charges that Bush cooked the books. "All the analysts I have talked to said they never felt pressured on WMD," says Kay. "Everyone believed that had WMD."

That includes the Clinton administration. Kay told The Post he had found evidence that Hussein had quietly destroyed some biological and chemical weapons in the mid-1990s -- but never reported it to the United Nations. Which was why President Bill Clinton in 1998 declared with great alarm and great confidence that Hussein had huge stockpiles of biological and chemical arms -- "and some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61949-2004Jan29.html

[punpirate]

1. "Chuckie" can...

... eat the peanuts out of my shit.

It's amazing how the Washington Post clings to losers like Krauthammer, just because they're diehard wingers. Krauthammer has never said anything sensible in his career--as a columnist, or as a psychiatrist.

This is a guy who gave up psychiatry because he couldn't resist the urge to sneak up behind his paranoid patients and yell, "booga-booga!!!"

[Loonman]

2. "Corpse"hammer

That guy is seriously delusional.

[indepat]

6. The thought of Chuckie makes me want to up-chuck

[shooga]

8. what happened to him ...

... the "KKKrime Family" got to him??

[ithacan]

3. but CIA guys said at the time they WERE cooking the books!!!

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1607676
Houston Chronicle
Oct. 8, 2002, 10:47AM

Some administration officials expressing misgivings on Iraq

By WARREN P. STROBEL and JONATHAN S. LANDAY
Knight-Ridder Tribune News

WASHINGTON -- While President Bush marshals congressional and international support for invading Iraq, a growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in his own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration's double-time march toward war.

These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses -- including distorting his links to the al-Qaida terrorist network -- have overstated the amount of international support for attacking Iraq and have downplayed the potential repercussions of a new war in the Middle East.

They charge that the administration squelches dissenting views and that intelligence analysts are under intense pressure to produce reports supporting the White House's argument that Saddam poses such an immediate threat to the United States that pre-emptive military action is necessary.

"Analysts at the working level in the intelligence community are feeling very strong pressure from the Pentagon to cook the intelligence books," said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

A dozen other officials echoed his views in interviews.

No one who was interviewed disagreed.
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[ithacan]

4. more...

http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/22/dreyfuss-r.html
The American Prospect

The Pentagon Muzzles the CIA
Devising bad intelligence to promote bad policy

By Robert Dreyfuss
Issue Date: 12.16.02

Even as it prepares for war against Iraq, the Pentagon is already engaged on a second front: its war against the Central Intelligence Agency. The Pentagon is bringing relentless pressure to bear on the agency to produce intelligence reports more supportive of war with Iraq, according to former CIA officials. Key officials of the Department of Defense are also producing their own unverified intelligence reports to justify war. Much of the questionable information comes from Iraqi exiles long regarded with suspicion by CIA professionals. A parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation, in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, collects the information from the exiles and scours other raw intelligence for useful tidbits to make the case for preemptive war. These morsels sometimes go directly to the president.
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[trumad]

5. And he call the Dems reckless

He's a major piece of crap!

[SoCalDem]

7. K-hammer is lucky that he has money..

A "regular" person with the same disability as he has, would most likely be holed up in some substandard long term care facility.. There are lots of severely handicapped people who have family members who cannot afford to quit jobs to care for them, so they end up in state care..

It's obvious that he has a functioning brain, and command of the language, BUT so do MOST of the physically handicapped people in the US, and they do not have the access to a job with HIGH pay that K-Hammer has.. They usually have NO work offered to them..

[ex_jew]

9. About that functioning brain...

Perhaps my brain is not functional yet, but I cannot understand how Saddam's mistaken belief that he HAD WMDs is somehow to blame for the world's misunderstanding. I thought Saddam told everyone there were NO WMDs. Or is the fact that he most vigorously denied it being added to the "Saddam kicked out the inspectors" lie ? What a crock.

[SoCalDem]

10. functioning in the broadest sense of the word

:)

[Bandit]

11. What again was the purpose of the OSP? ~ I forget.

:shrug: Confound them with facts.