It's clear to everyone but the most dense that Bush is lying his tail off on the threat Iraq is. And you CAN fool some of the people all of the time.

Now, should decent, honorable, patriotic American troops have to go into harms way on the orders of a lying sack of manure Commander in Chief? (Some of us like the American military more than others, and don't like to see it abused.)

Nope, wouldn't have been right under Clinton, either, but at least he wasn't AWOL. (Seems a bit more honorable to dodge the draft than spend a million bucks being trained and go AWOL, the way our President did.)

Why would the Commander in Chief lie? I mean, if there isn't the threat he says there is, why would he want to kill a few Americans trying to attack a non-threat?

Maybe oil, but the public wouldn't go for that. Maybe Daddy's hatred, but the public doesn't really want people to die for that.

So, he has to come up with bogus al-Qaeda ties, which only he sees, and bogus nuclear weapons, which again only he sees.

Oh, he paints the vision, and Rumsfeld, Rice and Cheney talk about how beautiful it is, but according to HIS OWN INTELLIGENCE people, the Emperor has no clothes. None.

Terrible thing to do - send people to their death just to prove the Emperor has no clothes, for oil and Daddy. I wonder if he's really proud, and if his mother is really proud of him, and what he thinks his "legacy" will be.

Arf

Again - it's important.

"Officials in the CIA, FBI and energy department are being put under intense pressure to produce reports which back the administration's line, the Guardian has learned. In response, some are complying, some are resisting and some are choosing to remain silent.

"Basically, cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements and there's a lot of unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among analysts at the CIA," said Vincent Cannistraro, the CIA's former head of counter-intelligence.

In his address, the president reassured Americans that military action was not "imminent or unavoidable", but he made the most detailed case to date for the use of force, should it become necessary.

But some of the key allegations against the Iraqi regime were not supported by intelligence currently available to the administration. Mr Bush repeated a claim already made by senior members of his administration that Iraq has attempted to import hardened aluminum tubes "for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons". The tubes were also mentioned by Tony Blair in his dossier of evidence presented to parliament last month.

However, US government experts on nuclear weapons and centrifuges have suggested that they were more likely to be used for making conventional weapons.

"I would just say there is not much support for that [nuclear] theory around here," said a department of energy specialist.

Published on Wednesday, October 8, 2002 in the Guardian/UK

White House 'Exaggerating Iraqi Threat'
Bush's Televised Address Attacked by US Intelligence

by Julian Borger in Washington