Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Bush should have someone read him his reports
The most disappointing thing learned from the once classified assessment on global terrorism isn’t that the world has more terrorists then ever before. It isn’t that the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq made the world more dangerous. Anyone that has read a newspaper or watched the news on TV already knew these things to be true. No, the most troubling thing about this report is that once again George W. Bush proves that he ignores his own intelligence reports. Did he even read it? The report is dated April 2006. How many times has he and his administration argued that the war in Iraq was making us safer? He should have known this was a lie.
There is a reason some people like to call Bush a liar. He constantly says things that aren’t true. Things he has to know aren’t true.
I guess it’s easy to ignore something if you have never read it. Or in the case of Bush, had someone read it to you. Bush said the freshly unclassified report supported his arguments that the world is safer because of the Iraq invasion and occupation. If you read all three and a half pages released from the report, you see that’s simply not true. The released segments warn about the spread of terrorism and contrasted greatly with the Bush administration’s optimistic declarations.
“If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide,”
Instead of saying that invading Iraq has made things better, The report says the complete opposite. It says that the war in Iraq has become a “cause célèbre” for Islamic extremists. It’s become a training ground for Islamic terrorists. Either Bush has not had someone read him the report or he just doesn’t believe what it says. I don’t know which of the two is worse.
