In an open letter to Mr. Tenet as posted on Countdown’s site, it states, “We are stunned that someone who reportedly is earning $50,000 per speaking engagement and has received a $4 million dollar advance for your book is worried only about reputation. The damage to your reputation pales in terms of the harm that has been inflicted on U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. In our view we believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq.”
That letter is also signed by Phil Giraldi, Ray McGovern, Jim Marcinkowski and Vince Cannistraro. To all reading this editorial, please go read this letter in its entirety by going to the link above. George Tenet had the power to stop this blood-letting of our soldiers as well as the Iraqi people and he did NOTHING. The same can be said of the Senate Intelligence Committee since they too knew what was being told to the American people was false.
Those on that committee who knew what the real intelligence was and still voted to invade Iraq should be tried for treason. Even those who voted against the Iraq Resolution yet did nothing could have somehow leveled with their colleagues without going into specifics. All on that committee failed the American people, more importantly our dead and maimed troops.
As some have mocked former Senator Mike Gravel for being included within the Democratic debate, at least he helped to stop the blood-letting of our troops in the Viet Nam War. In “1971, he waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months that forced the Nixon administration to cut a deal, effectively ending the draft in the United States.” Where is that brand of leadership coming from those who say they support the troops and do nothing to bring about the end of this war?
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