The Leak and the 'Truth'

Is it possible that Junior is so far gone that he actually believes his own lies?

If so, that is a very dangerous situation for this nation and for the world.

The commander-in-chief of the most powerful miltary on earth should not be delusional.

Somebody, please take the football away from Bush, but don't give it to Cheney.

The Leak and the 'Truth':

"'I wanted people to see the truth.'

That's how George W. Bush explained his decision to authorize the selective dissemination of portions of a classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's WMD in the summer of 2003, when the main rationale for his war in Iraq was unraveling. But this was no exercise in full disclosure. It was a political operation. With former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and others raising questions about Bush's overstatement of the prewar intelligence--none of the promised unconventional weapons, after three months, having been found--the Bush gang was beginning to worry. News reports at the time were carrying leaks from unnamed intelligence officials indicating that the President and his team had hyped the WMD threat. And a much noticed Wilson op-ed in the New York Times had made it seem that the White House had used one charge--that Saddam Hussein had been uranium shopping in Iraq--after the Administration had reason to know it was bunk. "