Beating around the Bush
A couple of stories have come out this week hammering the Bush administration.
The Carnegie Endowment for Internation Peace (a non-partisan organization) released a report on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and what the U.S. knew. Their findings:
1) Iraq WMD was not an immediate threat
2) Inspections were working
3) Intelligence failed and was misrepresented
4) Terrorist connection missing
5) Post-War WMD search ignored key resources
6) War was not the best or only option
Now I ask you, would you rather have a president that lies about an affair or a president that lies to send us to war (and go after the guy that tried to kill his daddy)?
It won't surprise me if we eventually find a missle or two with WMD that were buried in the sand 15 years ago. Not because the Iraqi Regime did such a great job of hiding it but rather they just lost/forgot about. I can guarantee you that our government can't keep track of everything in its inventory.
The other story is former Treasury secretary Paul H. O'Neill being quoted in the book "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill." Only excerpts have been released so far however O'Neill is very critical of the present administration. He's not the first insider to criticize the way the Bush administration creates policy. There was also a 60 Minutes interview of Paul O'Neill yesterday that I missed, I'll try to listen to it on the web.