Killing The Bush Lied Mantra...

... once and for all:

Every single bi-partisan investigation into the question of whether or not the Bush Administration deliberately misled the world to war in Iraq has found that rather than a Bush cabal, failures to find vast stockpiles of WMD described by the UN weapons inspectors were the result of bad intelligence: intelligence provided largely by agencies that had been starved of funding, had their leaders replaced by political appointees, been legally hamstrung by the American Congress, and lacked adequate Congressional oversight for the 10years prior to the invasion of Iraq.

This lack of Congressional oversight that directly led to the decay of the American intelligence community (all 16 agencies) was also found to be the reason that the 911 attacks were able to succeed.

Oh, and guess who keeps calling for these investigations, who continue to claim “Bush Lied,” or “intelligence was pressured, manipulated, cherry-picked, created,” etc.?

It’s the people who were responsible for oversight of the intelligence agencies in the years they were left to rot.

There's much more, all of it linked and substantiated, all of it worthy, all for the reader who values truth over derangement, the reader with a modicum of intellect, the reader not infected with illogical hatred.

Are you that reader?

UPDATE: Curt provides worthiness as well, specifically as to the Iraq/Al Qaeda chumminess and eye-opening quotes from those unwilling to hold themselves to the standards they now hold the Bush Administration to.  Again, educate yourself and go read it all.

Comments

[Marc V]

"Oh, and guess who keeps calling for these investigations, who continue to claim “Bush Lied,” or “intelligence was pressured, manipulated, cherry-picked, created,” etc.?

It’s the people who were responsible for oversight of the intelligence agencies in the years they were left to rot."

Well, at least we'll have the same people, now that they've gone through it and understand it, to expeditiously and judiciously fix the problem. Uh huh.

Think the problem could get worse with a Dem (like Hilly the former Hawk) in the Oval Office?

[janereinheimer]

HERE'S AN OXYMORON: HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE

It's been less than an hour since the time I figured I'd write about the shenanigans (continuing) going on over at the Capitol Building.

And then, a big yellow-backgrounded news alert jumped off the page at me on CNN.com. It said, "A former third-ranking official in the CIA, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, is expected to be indicted in San Diego today in an ongoing investigation into public corruption and defense contracts, according to two sources familiar with the case."

Heads are gonna roll!

The oversight committees are supposed to be working hard.

But are they really? Another headline says "Dems breaking promise; working short weeks."

Then there was an article in The Hill about how the lobbyists in Washington are already looking ahead. Way ahead. In an article today by Jim Snyder, he says the lobbyists are already working to "frame future floor debates in oversight committees."

Ahh. It's the lobbyists who are framing floor debates. I should have guessed.

All this time, I thought it was the elected officials. But then, who else would do it.

The elected officials are working short weeks, taking off to run for office and run for money.

And running from fights with each other.

This is America. No wonder foreigners think we're silly. We can't even control the people we elect to work for us!

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1:25 pm

HERE'S WHERE THE REAL PEACE PRIZE SHOULD GO

Remember the name: Christopher Hill.

He's the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and he's been in Beijing doing what he can to broker peace with the North Koreans.

Hill, representing the United States, is joined by other envoys from China, Japan, South Korean and North Korea and Russia.

Tensions are high. All the powers that are represented want North Korea to knock it off and dismantle its manufacture of nuclear warheads (like it promised).

North Korea says it just might not do that unless it gets a whole bunch of oil. Like 2 million tons of heavy fuel oil every year, according to Jae-Soon Chang, who filed the story with Associated Press. The North Koreans also say they will need 2 million kilowatts of electricity just to begin the first stages of denuclearization.

If North Korea gets everything it's demanding, it says it will shut down the 5-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon, and other nuclear facilities, then let inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency come back in.

It appears that North Korea's bragging rights to being the ultra-powerful sasquatch in the Orient was recently eclipsed by China's shooting one of our old satellites out of space.

The North Koreans probably felt a spiny tingle of "oops" go all the way up to the collarbone.

Personally, I don't think the North Koreans want China to get all that upset with them. And then, there's the new boss over at the UN who just happens to be from South Korea.

Politically, North Korea needs to work on polishing its political savvy.

Then there's the United States. If North Korea wants us to share some of our $13 trillion economy -- like in new orders for goods they're making over there, then they ought to listen up.

Just tear the things down. You built them, you sink 'em. The smart thing would be to proceed to commence to begin.

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1:06 pm