Interesting new memo - Treason to some, but not to the rest

I think that the only thing more shocking than that memo would be a Republican internal memo stating that they should politicize a **************.

Actually, I'll tell you what's even more shocking than that: A dog licking its nuts.

No, wait, I've got it: The sun rising in the east every morning.

Politicians are acting like politicians -- SHOCKING!

 

Of course, all the whining about the Democrats' politicizing the Bush Administration's sexed-up rationalization for war in Iraq is to distract us from one very important issue:

The fact that the issue exists in the first place and that the administration fluffed up the reasons for war. If the administration hadn't run their yaps for months about mushroom clouds and nerve gas and such, we wouldn't have an issue to so unfairly politicize, would we?

 

I'll put it to you this way: I'm not surprised by the memo, and to be honest, I'd be a little disappointed in the Democrats if they didn't make a campaign issue of the Bush administration's... how shall I put this... stretching of the truth about the intelligence that they had about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. (Of course, these days, that intelligence has been reduced to "Saddam had impure thoughts about weapons of mass destruction a few weeks previous to the invasion.")

The Republicans made a campaign issue about lying about a **************, so why shouldn't the Democrats make a campaign issue about lies -- er, excuse me, "inaccurate intelligence" -- that are getting American soldiers killed on a daily basis?

And you'd lose that bet.

I'm damn cynical and I don't exactly blow a gasket when I see politicians acting like politicians. In fact, I think such candor is refreshing, instead of this "I'm an outsider and therefore above it all" bullcrap we get so often from politicians.

 

And might I add that if this is the best thing that Republicans can find to complain about, they're getting awfully soft.

 

Here is the way the story was reported by the LA times:

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-intel5nov05,1,7775046.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

Really there is nothing surprising about this Memo. The democrats have been transparent in their intentions of wanting to politicize any intelligence problems to try to weaken the administration and the CIA at the expense of weakening the nation.

It is obvious that the democrats are not interested in launching an investigation in order to improve the gathering of intelligence and learn from our past mistakes. All they want to do is find problems so they can expose them publically to America and the world in the hope that it will help them regain power. They care not for the negative ramifications of showing our weaknesses to our enemies, even at a time of war.

So, given their strategies, can we trust democrats with sensitive national security information? Can we expect them to be responsible in how they use that information? I am afraid not.

The purpose of the investigation should be to identify and clarify the problems of our intelligence gathering and interpretation, so we can try to correct them. Obviously the CIA is not working correctly when in the last decade they slept while Al Qaeda set up a worldwide organization to attack America. And obviously the CIA is not working correctly when they overestimate Hussein's success in his efforts to obtain WMD's. We need to investigate the agency, but this should be a bipartisan effort and the details should be kept from the public and especially from our enemies who are likely to take advantage of any weaknesses that we reveal to them.

Well, my last point about keeping it from the public is debatable. But what is not debatable is that such an inquire should be conducted with the purpose of improving our nation's effectiveness in gathering and interpreting intelligence, especially given the new challenges posed by our new enemies. What we certainly don't need is a witchhunt conducted strategically and specifically for partisan gain at the risk of weakening our nation, as the democrats have been attempting to do and, according to this story, are apparently plotting to continue to do.

 

Looks to me like you're politicizing an investigation into the shortcomings by our intelligence agencies in the run-up to the war in Iraq. It would appear that you're not doing too much better than the Democrats. If you wanted to do better, you should've just stopped at "Tsk, tsk."

Like I said, I'm not particularly trusting of people who claim to "be above the political process."

 

Fixed your post.

 

Agreed. It was disgraceful for Republicans to undermine the office of the president of the United States with their attacks on president Clinton. I am convinced that the personal attacks on Clinton weakened the perception of America all over the globe and hurt our nation.

However, the democrats are taking partisanship to a whole new level. At a time in which terrorists have organized themselves into a network to attack America, these senators are taking a committe which should be examining how to best combat this threat by improving our intelligence, and are instead attempting to turn it into some sort of partisan dirt-gathering machine which they hope will help them put down the office of the president and bring them back to power. It is despicable.

 

What we accomplished was the fall of the Hussein regime. But I will submit to you that the war on terror is not over.


This is an aside, and has nothing to do with the memo, but I cannot let it pass. This criticism of Bush for declaring 'major combat over' is a perfect example of the liberals trying to critizice Bush for anything and everything, regardless of what he does.

Back in April liberals were criticizing Bush for NOT declaring major combat over in Iraq. They claimed that he wanted to postpone declaring the war was over so he wouldn't have to release Iraqi POW's.

Even after the speech of May 1st, liberals were saying stuff like: 'Bush was careful not to declare combat over, so he doesn't have to release the POW's'. But now that it became more convenient for them, they critizice him for exactly the opposite reason. These people hate Bush so much that regardless of what he does they will find fault with it and repeat it over and over in the hope that it sticks.