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The New York Times has reported that they were informed by the Pentagon that George W. Bush's military records covering the time he spent in the Air National Guard were destroyed accidentally during a routine transfer of files. I don't believe that for one millisecond.
The American people have a right to know just what George W. Bush was doing while John Kerry was risking life and limb for his country. Still, Bush's campaign commercials laud his courage. Bull! This so-called accident by the Pentagon is an outright cover up of a record that one can now only assume is an embarrassment to their Commander and Chief.
That news was dwarfed by the report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelli-gence. I think they could have reduced the report to one line: "In regards to intelligence, this President doesn't have any."
The American people have a right to know just what George W. Bush was doing while John Kerry was risking life and limb for his country. Still, Bush's campaign commercials laud his courage. Bull! This so-called accident by the Pentagon is an outright cover up of a record that one can now only assume is an embarrassment to their Commander and Chief.
That news was dwarfed by the report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelli-gence. I think they could have reduced the report to one line: "In regards to intelligence, this President doesn't have any."
It is perfectly clear that President Bush had no proof of weapons of mass destruction until he pressured the CIA to manufacture some. It is clear that the President and Vice President told an outright lie when they said there was a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.
Several former CIA operatives have reported that even the CIA told the administration on at least three occasions that that was not so. Even so, today Vice President Cheney continues to insist that they had evidence of a link.
Secretary of State Powell now admits that the information he showed to the U.N. to justify a war against Iraq was based on flawed intelligence. Maybe Powell really didn't know that at the time, but you can bet your sweet bippy that the president did. He wanted a war with Iraq and he flatly told the CIA to get him what he needed to justify his pre-disposed intentions. They replied that would be a "slam dunk."
Shortly after the slam dunk comment the CIA informed the president they had proof Iraq was developing a drone that could deliver biological weapons to its enemies, they were attempting to acquire the materials to develop an atomic weapon, and they had a stockpile of WMDs. This was all fabricated to give the president what he asked for. The political arm twisting of the CIA is disgraceful and must never happen again.
Several former CIA operatives have reported that even the CIA told the administration on at least three occasions that that was not so. Even so, today Vice President Cheney continues to insist that they had evidence of a link.
Secretary of State Powell now admits that the information he showed to the U.N. to justify a war against Iraq was based on flawed intelligence. Maybe Powell really didn't know that at the time, but you can bet your sweet bippy that the president did. He wanted a war with Iraq and he flatly told the CIA to get him what he needed to justify his pre-disposed intentions. They replied that would be a "slam dunk."
Shortly after the slam dunk comment the CIA informed the president they had proof Iraq was developing a drone that could deliver biological weapons to its enemies, they were attempting to acquire the materials to develop an atomic weapon, and they had a stockpile of WMDs. This was all fabricated to give the president what he asked for. The political arm twisting of the CIA is disgraceful and must never happen again.
According to the Washington Post, the Select Committee's report noted what the CIA did was to remove such caveats as " we judge" and " we assess" and thus changed many sentences in an unclassified "white paper" to statements of fact rather than assessments. In doing so the report "misrepresented (the intelligence community's) judgments to the public."
Thus the classified report's language, "We assess that Baghdad has begun renewed production of mustard, sarin, cyclosarin, and VX...." became " Baghdad has begun renewed production......" in the public's version. Also the words "we have little specific information on Iraq's CW (chemical wea-pons) stockpile" were removed from the unclassified paper.
Three days after the public version of the document was released, President Bush said in a major speech to the nation in Cincinnati: "Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists. Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraq regime to attack America without leaving fingerprints."- Dana Priest, Washington Post.
Although the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the CIA, those of us who question the integrity of this administration believe the CIA's intelligence reports were changed to reflect what President Bush and Vice President Cheney, along with Rice and Rumsfeld wanted them to say.
Thus the classified report's language, "We assess that Baghdad has begun renewed production of mustard, sarin, cyclosarin, and VX...." became " Baghdad has begun renewed production......" in the public's version. Also the words "we have little specific information on Iraq's CW (chemical wea-pons) stockpile" were removed from the unclassified paper.
Three days after the public version of the document was released, President Bush said in a major speech to the nation in Cincinnati: "Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists. Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraq regime to attack America without leaving fingerprints."- Dana Priest, Washington Post.
Although the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the CIA, those of us who question the integrity of this administration believe the CIA's intelligence reports were changed to reflect what President Bush and Vice President Cheney, along with Rice and Rumsfeld wanted them to say.
Thus, the American people were deceived about the threat from Iraq and many young men and women marched off to their deaths and continue to do so on the basis of deliberately flawed intelligence. It's down right criminal if you ask me.
Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" the Senate committee's chairman, Pat Roberts (R -Kan.) said that had Congress known before the vote to go to war what his committee has since discovered about the intelligence on Iraq, "I doubt if the votes would have been there."
Surely after the exposure of the outright lies, deception and cover-up by this administration, the votes for George W. Bush won't be there in November.
McAdoo once served on the Simi Valley, Calif. City Council.
Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" the Senate committee's chairman, Pat Roberts (R -Kan.) said that had Congress known before the vote to go to war what his committee has since discovered about the intelligence on Iraq, "I doubt if the votes would have been there."
Surely after the exposure of the outright lies, deception and cover-up by this administration, the votes for George W. Bush won't be there in November.
McAdoo once served on the Simi Valley, Calif. City Council.
