Drunk George Tenet lashed out at Bush’s neocons...

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/17/tenet-neocons/

Drunk George Tenet lashed out at Bush’s neocons: ‘The Jews’ who tried to ‘pin the Iraq WMD fiasco on him.’»


Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg recently picked up a copy of Patrick Tyler’s forthcoming book, A World of Trouble, which focuses on “America’s tortured relations with the Middle East.” Goldberg says that the book’s prologue contains a “whopper of a scene” featuring former CIA director George Tenet “drunk on scotch, flailing about Prince Bandar’s Riyadh pool, screaming about the Bush Administration officials who were just then trying to pin the Iraq WMD fiasco on him.” Tyler reports that Tenet also “mocked the neoconservatives in the Bush administration” as “the Jews“:

According to one witness, he mocked the neoconservatives in the Bush administration and their alignment with the right wing of Israel’s political establishment, referring to them with exasperation as, “the Jews.”

A footnote in Tyler’s book says that Tenet “initially denied staying at Prince Bandar’s palace, then denied that he had said anything in the pool.” “He disputed the remarks attributed to him and denied that his memory might have been affected by the amount of alcohol he was reported to have consumed on top of a sleeping pill,” reports Tyler.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Did he mean "Jews" as in AIPAC toadies?

...or did he mean it in the more traditional, racist Hitler/Nixon way?:shrug:

On edit: not that it matters - either way, it's bad. I was just curious.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. There's only one way to mean it

He meant "Jews".

Anti-Semites fall into only one category - anti-Semites.

I'm so glad this lying pig got that Medal from Fuckface. Maybe he can use it to hang himself.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Granted, he should've seperated the religion from the nation/state...

...but isn't it okay to criticize Israel's foreign policy or the US's in regards to Israel?:shrug:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

15. No, he said what he meant

Don't think for one minute that everyone who lives in Israel is a Jew. That's just not so.

He said "Jews." He meant "Jews." Bigots don't break down their hatred politically - they hate across the board. Tenet feels the same way about Jews in Tel Aviv as he does about Jews in Fayetteville.

Bigots are bigots.

He wasn't criticizing foreign policy.

[Captain Hilts]

8. AIPAC's team in the Pentagon did Israel or Jews no favors. nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

16. I agree with you 100%. It was purely anti-Semitic.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Deft. very deft.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. It's not meant to be...

Are we not allowed to criticize Israel's policies? If not, why?

It's a serious question. I'd really like to know.:shrug:

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. I think my point was missed, so I will let it lie.

It was not a criticism of you .

[Dennis Donovan]

14. Okay. Thanks...

:thumbsup:

[babylonsister]

6. Who knows? Sounds like he was really trashed. He probably

doesn't even know, or remember. Stay classy, Tenet.

[Dennis Donovan]

9. Even drunk, that term wouldn't leave my lips...

:shrug:

[peace frog]

7. Stay classy, George

You're just another Bushie who will never rehabilitate your tarnished reputation.

[wryter2000]

10. Add anti-Semitism to his charms

How do I get a date with this guy? :grr:

[elleng]

11. As much as I hate to even think about it,

'the jews' could very well mean the Jewish neo cons who forced him into war; there are, in fact a bunch. Wolfo, Kristol, perle, etc etc leaving others out; Jewish 'senior' moment here.

ps, arent Greeks Semitic too?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

18. Yes, they are,

according to the strict definition of "Semite."

But, we all know what George meant. There's only one meaning when "Jew" is thrown around like that.

[Mari333]

12. Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz

that bunch of neocons.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. Don't forget Doug Feith, one of the most dangerous of them all.

[gratuitous]

19. At least he still has his medal

A hero to the nation!