Senate Panel Debates Iraq Intelligence....This is unfrickin'believable!

[spanone]

So the thugs are just gonna interpret this the way they wished it were written?

Is this for real?

What is it about 'seriously flawed' that they don't get?


~snip~ WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Senate Democrats and Republicans differed sharply today on whether Pentagon officials deliberately used faulty intelligence to justify the Bush administration’s war against Iraq.

The debate before the Senate Armed Services Committee was touched off by a report by the Pentagon inspector general’s office, which investigated the Pentagon’s intelligence-gathering and found it seriously flawed, especially in its search for links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who heads the committee, called the report “a devastating condemnation of inappropriate activities” carried out by Douglas J. Feith, who was under secretary of defense for policy just before the invasion of Iraq early in 2003.

But Senator James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican on the committee, immediately disagreed, setting the stage for a series of partisan exchanges. “First of all, you can read the same report and come up with different conclusions, which is quite obvious and will be obvious,” Mr. Inhofe said, adding that the report cannot easily be interpreted as “a devastating condemnation,” as Mr. Levin asserted.

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[acmavm]

1. That blithering lying idiot Inhofe keeps insisting that global warming

ain't for real either. What's that tell you?

[magellan]

2. Add to that how "unauthorized actions" aren't illegal

BushCo have set a new low water mark for standards if "unauthorized actions" and "deeply flawed" intelligence-gathering are acceptable.

[Octafish]

3. Bush lied America into war.

Feith and his turds were the ones who created the talking points.

Thanks for the article, spanone.

PS: If it's OK with you, I had been planning to do something along these very lines this noche.

[spanone]

5. That's ok with me.

[sandnsea]

4. If we don't 'be the media'

Then this is what is going to stand, and most people will never even know this report exists.