BATTING DOWN REVISIONISM
The woebegone G. Walker administration. determined on going out on a carpet of lies, still brazenly attempting simplistic methodologies of dissembling, misdirection, and cherry-picking. In short,
1) The blind leading the bland.
2) Blather, rinse, repeat.
We long ago gave up hope that President Bush would acknowledge his many mistakes, or show he had learned anything from them. Even then we were unprepared for the epic denial that Bush displayed in his interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson the other day, which he presumably considered an important valedictory chat with the American public as well.
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After everything the American public and the world have learned about how Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney manipulated Congress, public opinion and anyone else they could bully or lie to, Bush is still acting as though he decided to invade Iraq after suddenly being handed life and death information on Saddam Hussein’s arsenal.
The truth is that Bush, Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had been chafing to attack Iraq before Sept. 11, 2001. They justified that unnecessary war using intelligence reports that they knew or should have known to be faulty. And it was pressure from the White House and a highly politicized Pentagon that compelled people like Secretary of State Colin Powell and George Tenet, the director of central intelligence, to ignore the counter-evidence and squander their good names on hyped claims of weapons of mass destruction.
Despite it all, Bush said he will “leave the presidency with my head held high.” And, presumably, with his eyes closed to all the disasters he is dumping on the American people and his successor. Source
Accountability, thankfully, is not a dead concept. But it sure as shootin' has atrophied over the past eight years.
