'No President has lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably'

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  1. Mel Brennan

    Mel Brennan PLANITARCHIS' BANE

    Paris Saint Germain
    United States
    Apr 8, 2002
    Baltimore
    Club:
    Paris Saint Germain FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    By Andrew Gumbel
    09 November 2003


    "The intelligence process is a bit like virginity," says Ray McGovern, who worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years. "Once you prostitute it, it's never the same. Your credibility never recovers.

    "Watching what has happened with Iraq over the past several months has been like watching your daughter being raped."

    Such is an indication of the extraordinary depth of feeling within the US intelligence community as the Bush administration's basis for the war in Iraq - the weapons of mass destruction, the dark hint of links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'ida - has been shown to have been built on air...
     
  2. oman

    oman Member

    Jan 7, 2000
    South of Frisconsin
    Cracking toast, Grommit.
     
  3. afgrijselijkheid

    Dec 29, 2002
    mokum
    Club:
    AFC Ajax
    in W's defense, he has never lied baldly
     

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