"On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers," Sidney Blumenthal reported in Salon.com. "Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam’s inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail."
What’s more, the intelligence information was later changed and distorted to match what the White House wanted to hear, Blumenthal reported. And when the CIA officers complained, one of Tenet’s deputies allegedly told them, "You haven’t figured this out yet. This isn’t about intelligence. It’s about regime change."
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
"Men want hot women, study confirms," reports CNN.
Another breakthrough for science!
Posted by Randy Scholfield
MSNBC’s First Read blog said it all when it said of the scene Tuesday at a New Hampshire speech by Sen. Sam Brownback, “You know your campaign is in trouble when there are photos like this one.” Later, some who attended the speech suggested the photograph was unfair, because it was taken after a number of students in the crowd of 35 to 75 people had left for afternoon classes. Of the senator’s performance at the debate a day later, a National Review Online scribe said: “Sen. Sam Brownback (R., Kan.), while re-establishing his credentials as a defender of the traditional family, said nothing that anyone will remember tomorrow.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman
Noting that, according to a new book, President Bush still believed last year that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, New York Times columnist Gail Collins expressed the reasonable hope that both parties will find 2008 presidential nominees who are in touch with reality. She wrote, “Watch out for candidates who believe you can change the unchangeable if you just: a) Think positive. b) Hire a better lawyer. c) Check into rehab. d) Quote Ronald Reagan. e) Click your heels three times and repeat after me: ‘Gen. Petraeus, Gen. Petraeus . . . .’”
Posted by Rhonda Holman
What was New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson thinking in linking God to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses? (Or maybe he just mixed up the pages of his heartland talking points.) Drawing snickers, he said at a Sioux City labor picnic Monday: “Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary. And I want you to know who was the first candidate to sign a pledge not to campaign anywhere if they got ahead of Iowa. It was Bill Richardson.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman
