Thursday, June 19, 2008

it was just a presentation error, so any fullas#i+ness you might have detected was probably a misperception on your part

DAILY GRILL

"I don't think that administration officials purposely overstated [the threat of Iraq]. I do think there were errors made in the presentation."
-- Iraq war architect Doug Feith, 6/18/08

VERSUS

"A long-delayed Senate report...has concluded that President Bush and his aides built the public case for war against Iraq by exaggerating available intelligence and by ignoring disagreements among spy agencies."
-- New York Times, 6/5/08, on a Senate Intelligence Committee report

3 comments:

Fungster said...

So, they weren't malicious, they were incompetent? He keeps saying that as he goes on his tour, and Stewart tried to challenge him on it, but he keeps sticking to that full@$#!+ explanation. If he'd put it the way I put it, and then said he left as a result of how incompetent he was, I'd accept it and move on. But "mistakes were made in the presentation" that tended to work in favor of what they were advocating? And those "mistakes" weren't deliberate? Even though we know you knew what we know now then? Even though we have Cheney in the 90's saying invade Iraq = quagmire?

Now how can we criticise rogue leaders across the globe when our own leaders lie to us to get into war? Send people to other countries to be tortured? When we're not torturing them ourselves? Then use a separate court with separate rules to try these people? Clearly, we're leading by example. How can we rail against those who're just following what we're doing?

Fungster said...

Dude, there are grownups talking here. Why don't you go, I don't know, make a video on Gary Gaetti and his betrayal? Coz that story really has never been told...

Corms said...

We all so often make mistakes that are in our own favor accross the board. These phokkin phokks are phokkin disgusting as all phokkin $#!+