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I am a former UPI journalist now operating from behind a public relations desk located in a blue city but a red state.

Friday, July 09, 2004

Where is the outrage?

I was reviewing my postings from Month One to see how far we have come. My second posting was on "still no WMDs." Today we have this story breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The key U.S. assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq -- that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons -- were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report asserted Friday.

Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican who heads the committee, told reporters that assessments that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and could make a nuclear weapon by the end of the decade were wrong.

"As the report will show, they were also unreasonable and largely unsupported by the available intelligence," he said.

"This was a global intelligence failure."

The report repeatedly blasts departing CIA Director George Tenet, accusing him of skewing advice to top policy-makers with the CIA's view and elbowing out dissenting views from other intelligence agencies overseen by the State or Defense departments.

It faulted Tenet for not personally reviewing Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, which contained since-discredited references to Iraq's attempts to purchase uranium in Africa.

White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, traveling with President Bush on a campaign trip Friday, said the committee's report essentially "agrees with what we have said, which is we need to take steps to continue strengthening and reforming our intelligence capabilities so we are prepared to meet the new threats that we face in this day and age."

Tenet has resigned and leaves office Sunday.


So, where is the outrage? If this is all about Tenet, why wasn't he fired. Why isn't he being thrown out of his office.

Where is the outrage from our sitting president? Why would he not be totally outraged that he was let into a war on false information? Why isn't he outraged about the 1,000 coalition deaths and the thousands of maimed men and women?

And why isn't the American public totally outraged that they have once again been lied to, and put in danger, all because of false information.

I am very puzzled, and troubled, about the collective intelligence and wisdom in this country.

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