Huckabee jokes about Bush not reading intelligence reports

[kskiska]

DES MOINES --- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defended his failure to read the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran in early December, joking in an interview Monday that President Bush didn't read intelligence reports for four years.

Huckabee came under fire in early December when, in response to a reporter's question about the Iran report, Huckabee said he wasn't aware of it. Huckabee's lack of familiarity with the with the National Intelligence Estimate --- a report that showed Iran had discontinued its nuclear program --- provided fuel for his critics who said he was a lightweight on foreign policy.

"The whole perception was based on an ambush question on the NIE report," Huckabee said in an interview with Lee Enterprises on Monday. "From there, it was like, 'Wow.' That was released at 10 o'clock in the morning. At 5:30 in the afternoon, somebody says, 'Have you read the report?' Maybe I should've said, 'Have you read the report?' President Bush didn't read it for four years; I don't know why I should read it in four hours."

His comment about President Bush appears to be a reference to allegations made by Bush's critics that Bush didn't pay close enough attention to intelligence reports, particularly in the early years of his presidency.

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[Olney Blue]

1. Pot, meet kettle.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. You know, Huckabee is getting the same "what a jokester, ain't he funny?" coverage that Bush

got in 2000.

It makes me nervous, I must say. MKJ

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I don't think OCM (Our Corporate Masters) want him.

He's too much of a wacko Jesus freak, too little of a corporatist stooge. The ideal Republican candidate is one who understands that he is the servant of OCM, and who at the same time can feign enough batshit Fundie thought to keep the snake-handlers and spit-spraying antiabortionists on the leash.

[Blue_Roses]

4. like Hackabee is one to talk

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