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November 14, 2005
Hadley Fumbles
This article from the AP has a lot of meat, specifically Bush's renewed claims that he did not mislead the country into war, his accusations that the Dems are lying, that they saw the same intelligence and voted for the war, and Howard Dean contradicting the President, indicating that they did not have access to the same information.
Bush said Democrats in Congress had the same intelligence about Iraq, and he argued that many now claiming that the information had been manipulated had supported going to war. The president also accused his critics of making false charges and playing politics with the war.
Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean rejected the criticism on Sunday and said, "The truth is, the president misled America when he sent us to war."
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," the party chairman disputed Bush's claim that Congress had the same information - the president withheld some intelligence and some caveats about it, Dean said - and that two commissions had found no evidence of pressure being placed on those within the intelligence community.
In fact, Dean said, how the administration handled the intelligence it received has yet to be determined by a Senate committee.
I love this quote the best though regarding Administration intelligence on Iran. From Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor;
Asked why people should believe U.S. claims about the nuclear plans of Iran given the failure of intelligence about Iraq, Hadley said there has been international consensus about Iran.
Well gee, Stephen, there was international consensus about Iraq too, wasn't there?
Posted by Chip Spear at November 14, 2005 9:38 AM