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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 31, 2005 04:14pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Like the new Woody Allen movie, "Melinda and Melinda," it is possible to view today's big story on the tremendous intelligence failures before the Iraq war as either comedy or tragedy, depending on how you look at it.
For instance, on the comic side, The Times reported yesterday that administration officials were relieved that the new report by a presidential commission had "found no evidence that political pressure from the White House or Pentagon contributed to the mistaken intelligence."
That's hilarious.
As necessity is the mother of invention, political pressure was the father of conveniently botched intelligence.
Dick Cheney and the neocons at the Pentagon started with the conclusion they wanted, then massaged and manipulated the intelligence to back up their wishful thinking. |
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