Declawed

Unfortunately the President's veracity is in question once again. He may have called wolf one too many times.

by Archie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1273 comments) on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 12:35:34 PM
 

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Right on, Archie ~ Bush's approval poll numbers are now at 24% but he still has time to sink to Cheney's level which is 11%.

Allen L Roland

by Allen L Roland (907 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 355 comments) on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 12:41:45 PM
 

What did Bush know? when? and what was he trying to do?

The question of the day seems to be, “What did the president know?  When did he know it?  And most importantly, why did he keep talking war with Iran?”

It is now established that Bush knew in July/August that something big was about to change regarding Iran intelligence, and that the long delayed, but forthcoming NIE report would expose new information that would reduce any justification for preemptive attack on Iran.

The Bush explanation of events is roughly as follows:

1.  The top secret briefing to Bush (and Cheney) last summer by his own Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, suggested that hard to refute new information might dramatically change their position on the reality of any Iranian nuclear threat, but that McConnell would not share with his two bosses what that might be, and that Bush and Cheney did not ask.

2.  That during the late summer and fall of 2007, Bush (and Cheney) kept up their attack language on Iran, and as the MSM now says, “didn’t tone down the rhetoric”, simply because they did not know that any NIE intelligence change would justify changing their posture, and because they had not even bothered to ask McConnell to be sure that they might be ‘talking the wrong trash’, and that they were not concerned that they might be made to look like alarmist fools later, when the NIE report was released.

3.  That the reason why Bush and Cheney did what they did, and kept threatening war with Iran is that they did not want to interfere with the intelligence community on this sensitive issue, and that talking this way --- even in the likelihood of dramatic intelligence to the contrary --- was simply the best way to apply purely ‘diplomatic pressure’ to Iran and had nothing to do with any rumored attempts to actually launch a massive air attack with US nuclear cruise missiles on Iran before the truth came out

An alternative analysis of the past patterns, psychology, motivations and foreign influences on Bush and Cheney that might just possibly be more rational and intelligent than the ‘suspension of disbelief’ that would be necessary to believe the about insane explanation of Bush and Cheney is the following:

1.   Yes, Bush and Cheney were briefed in July/August by McConnell, who they immediately yelled at and intimidated into telling them the irrefutable evidence that Iran was no threat.  Then Bush and Cheney pressured their underling to delay this real intelligence long enough to take action before it came out.

2.   Bush and Cheney did not only continue their tough talk on Iran, but DRAMATICALLY increased the pressure to ‘Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran’ to the point of getting McCain to sing their song --- and more importantly giving Kyl and Lieberman time to pass their Senate Iran amendment, which (by a 76 to 23 vote on Sept 26) secured BI-PARTISAN support for any Iran attack.

And then by pure coincidence, right after the Kyl-Lieberman (AIPAC drafted) bill had passed by a wide margin, two strange things happened:

A. Israel launched a surprise air attack on a supposed Syrian nuclear facility, and

B. On the very same week, low and behold a US B-52 with six ACM cruise missiles armed with W80 nuclear warheads of exactly the type that were called for in the CONPLAN 8022 to attack Iran’s nuclear sites happened to ‘accidentally’ get through an air tight failsafe locked procedure and were not reported ‘missing’ for more than 24 hours.

Neither the Israeli air attack on Syria nor the missing B-52 with nuclear missiles have either been seriously explained or resolved, despite multiple cover stories and unexplainable inconsistencies.

3.  It is incredibly obvious that the ‘Why’ of Bush and Cheney’s ‘What did they know? When did they know it? And WHY did they keep pushing even faster toward war?’ would be far more rationally explained by this second scenario than by Bush and Cheney’s bold faced lies.

by Alan MacDonald (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 66 comments) on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 8:32:18 PM
 

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Well said, Amacd ~ Remember, this has always been their agenda ~ not America's agenda ~ they won't stop until Impeachment proceedings are initiated or indictments are delivered. The approval polls mean nothing to them ~ they are convinced, in their own minds, that they are patriots which reminds me this appropriate quote ~ The last refuge of scoundrels is patriotism.

Allen L Roland

by Allen L Roland (907 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 355 comments) on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 8:52:09 PM