Bush Probably knew Iraq Didn’t Have WMD

Posted on August 6th, 2008 by ecthompson md

I don’t know, what is your definition of overwhelming evidence? How about a 341-page book that is packed with evidence by Vincent Bugliosi that the Bush administration specifically misled America?

One of the hedges that my thoughtful friends threw at me was “Suppose President Bush did not know the intelligence that he was getting was faulty?” As we all know, President Bush did not thoughtfully question the intelligence he was given. President Bush did not go to the source and ask about the intelligence but instead he got the intelligence filtered through Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and other Neo-cons. Therefore, my friends would reason, President Bush shouldn’t be held responsible for making bad decisions based on bad intelligence.

Ron Suskind’s new book, “The Way of the World — A Story of Truth and Hope In the Age of Extremism”, paints a similar picture. Like Vincent Bugliosi, Suskind uses different examples to assert that President Bush willfully discarded information that contradicted the notion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Over the last four years we have really developed an overwhelming picture of the Bush administration. If we go back and read the Downing Street Memo, which was brushed aside by the mainstream media, we see that British officials clearly thought that the Bush administration was quick to manipulate the intelligence. Now we have specific examples of intelligence being discarded, not because the intelligence was wrong, but because the intelligence did not fit with Bush’s agenda to invade Iraq at all costs.

Tags: Bush Administration // 3 Comments »

  • http://godlessliberalhomo.blogspot.com/ libhomo

    The corporate media just won’t give adequate coverage to how the Bush regime lied us into the war.

  • Michael Z

    Well I know it’s easy to say the media won’t give us adequate coverage and it is a correct statement. But I think Olberman is a perfect example of how the media will give it to us if they have the right audience. Him and Maddow are constantly giving us adequate coverage but unfortuneately the only people demanding said coverage are their viewers. If FOX’s sheep woke up and CNN’s loyal progressives got a backbone, maybe we’d see more Olbermanns and Maddows in demand. With that said, instead of waiting for the MSM to catch up with us why aren’t we storming the White House gates?

  • margaret

    Everyone is waiting for him to just leave… Which to me is wrong. If McCain wins he will probably keep most of the people already in power which will just keep the lid on everything else they keep finding.

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