Bubble Boy Tries to Think
Sep 23rd, 2004 at 5:21 am by Susan
Sid Blumenthal on Bush’s faith-based reality:
In July, the CIA delivered to the president a new National Intelligence Estimate that details three gloomy scenarios of the future of Iraq ranging up to civil war. Perhaps it was his reading of the NIE that prompted Bush to remark in August that the war on terrorism could not be won, a judgment he swiftly reversed. But at the United Nations, Bush held a press conference at which he rebuffed the latest intelligence: “The CIA laid out a — several scenarios that said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.”
With that, Bush explained that for him intelligence is not to be used to inform decision making but to be accepted or rejected to advance an ideological and political agenda. His dismissal is an affirmation of the politicization and corruption of intelligence that rationalized the war.
