Oh Captain my Captain....Oh...Oh...OHHHHHHHH -- Or How Bush_Lite Pokes America In The ... well, you get it.
The Pretend Captain
Thanks to an English Professor at my old Alma Mater, Bloomsburg University (PA) for this...
When it became apparent after the war the President lied to the people, the President's political action team went into overdrive. It wasn't the President's fault, they moaned. Others, like the CIA, gave him bad information, they whined. The British were at fault, they blamed. The president doesn't have responsibility for anything, they wailed.
Instead of sending war-mongering lieutenants Cheney and Rumsfeld out to face the media, the commander-in-chief sent Colin Powell. The secretary if state, a much more sympathetic figure, had protested the war until, good soldier that he is, accepted the Bush doctrine as his marching orders. To nail the claim he had no responsibility, the commander-in-chief sent out his other minority aide, Dr. Condoleeza Rice, to try to explain in a one-hour news conference why the commander-in-chief and his entire senior White House staff, including her, was merely a dupe of bad intelligence. In a sniveling response, she even claimed that had the CIA told the President to take out the inflammatory 16 words, he would have. Of course, by the time the State of the Union was ready for presentation, there was no doubt the President wanted, needed, and expected to utter those 16 words, and hundreds of others, to justify his plans two months later.
The CIA's first mission, according to its charter, is "to support the President." And so CIA director George Tenet fell upon his sword to keep his boss from looking bad.
Thanks to an English Professor at my old Alma Mater, Bloomsburg University (PA) for this...
When it became apparent after the war the President lied to the people, the President's political action team went into overdrive. It wasn't the President's fault, they moaned. Others, like the CIA, gave him bad information, they whined. The British were at fault, they blamed. The president doesn't have responsibility for anything, they wailed.
Instead of sending war-mongering lieutenants Cheney and Rumsfeld out to face the media, the commander-in-chief sent Colin Powell. The secretary if state, a much more sympathetic figure, had protested the war until, good soldier that he is, accepted the Bush doctrine as his marching orders. To nail the claim he had no responsibility, the commander-in-chief sent out his other minority aide, Dr. Condoleeza Rice, to try to explain in a one-hour news conference why the commander-in-chief and his entire senior White House staff, including her, was merely a dupe of bad intelligence. In a sniveling response, she even claimed that had the CIA told the President to take out the inflammatory 16 words, he would have. Of course, by the time the State of the Union was ready for presentation, there was no doubt the President wanted, needed, and expected to utter those 16 words, and hundreds of others, to justify his plans two months later.
The CIA's first mission, according to its charter, is "to support the President." And so CIA director George Tenet fell upon his sword to keep his boss from looking bad.
posted by A. J. Franklin @ 11:46
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