Iran NIE doesn't reflect Bush's "views."

[Poiuyt]

In public, President Bush has been careful to reassure Israel and other allies that he still sees Iran as a threat, while not disavowing his administration's recent National Intelligence Estimate. That NIE, made public Dec. 3, embarrassed the administration by concluding that Tehran had halted its weapons program in 2003, which seemed to undermine years of bellicose rhetoric from Bush and other senior officials about Iran's nuclear ambitions. But in private conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week, the president all but disowned the document, said a senior administration official who accompanied Bush on his six-nation trip to the Mideast. "He told the Israelis that he can't control what the intelligence community says, but that conclusions don't reflect his own views" about Iran's nuclear-weapons program, said the official, who would discuss intelligence matters only on the condition of anonymity.

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/91673

I guess Bush conducted his own personal investigation which doesn't agree with the rest of the intelligence community

[alfredo]

1. The voices in his head told him they have nukes.

[Olney Blue]

2. Bush never lets facts get in the way of his views.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Colbert said it best

bush is a man who will believe the same thing on Thursday that he believed on Tuesday regardless of what happened on Wednesday.

[Olney Blue]

6. Exactly!

[driver8]

9. Ha! You got that right!

The said thing is, he spouts his bullshit and people believe it. How could anyone believe a word that this asshole has to say?

[tabatha]

4. There is a poll on CNN asking

whether Bush is trying to fan Iranaphobia - so far 70% yes.

[robbedvoter]

5. Same reason he doesn't read news...he said so.

[thereismore]

7. which he pulls straight out of hit ass. nt

[driver8]

8. "Reality" does not reflect his views.

I fucking hate that piece of shit...I really do.

[Orrex]

10. Sadly, this is reminiscent of one of Reagan's famous lines

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

March 4, 1987

Really, that's an explict declaration of insanity, yet it's often held up a crowning moment in the dignity of Saint Ronnie's deific Presidency.


In essence, he's saying that the truth is what his heart tells him, regardless of any inconvenient facts.

Bush is cast from the same wildly delusional mold. His remaining acolytes still praise him as the heir to the Reagan intellectual legacy; the sad truth is that they are correct, but in a way that they probably don't intend.