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Bizarro World

Are we living in some sort of bizarro world where conservative pundits now are critical of President Bush?

Yahoo! News – Pundit O’Reilly Now Skeptical About Bush

“I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this,” O’Reilly said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

He goes on to blame the CIA for the no-WMD problem. So maybe we haven’t entered bizarro world yet. Blaming the CIA is what the bush administration will try and push now as the reason that we were so wrong. The reason we were so wrong is that Cheney, Rumsfield and Wolfowitz trusted their clandestine Office of Special Plans more than they trusted actual intelligence professionals. Read George Tenet’s comments from the other day. The CIA was urging caution about the intelligence that was being produced.

Bush, Aides Ignored CIA Caveats on Iraq [washingtonpost.com]

“The probability of him initiating an attack . . . in the foreseeable future . . . I think would be low,” a senior CIA official told the Senate intelligence committee during a classified briefing on the estimate on Oct. 2, 2002.

It is important to not believe the spin that comes from the Bush Administration. For example, in another classic case of administration doublespeak, they have released records that “prove” Bush completed his required service in the military. . . but the records contain no details about the 1972-1973 time period that everyone is so interested in!

In addition to the unanswered question about where Bush performed his service and the fact that no one he served with has come forward, several other loose ends remain:

Bush was suspended from flying at least twice for failing to “accomplish” a physical exam; he could not be evaluated by the Texas Guard because, at one point, he had not been observed there for a year;

Don’t take what the administration tells you at face value. Their record over the past 3 years has not been good.