[coloradomomba]

okay, I am feeling like a total idiot here, but I don't get why this is such a big deal..I mean, every media outlet has been expressing concern over the veracity of the prewar intelligence for the last few weeks...so did anyone actually think the Dems were not going to use this concern in the next election campaign? What am I missing?

[thoughtomator]

A little historical context

[50sDad]

It's hard evidence that someone on the supposedly **impartial fact finding comittee** is in advance planning to "get Bush." Not evaluating the failure and planning to put measures in place that will safeguard America in the future to prevent intelligence failure, but planning to make all evidence fall in the right way to try and hurt the political chances of the GOP and the President.

[cake_crumb]

"What am I missing?"

Nothing. We knew the Dems would use this "concern" in the '04 election. We knew they would use underhanded means to do it. The reaction you're seeing is not surprise or shock. It's outrage. We all expected we would be outrages when we discovered HOW the Dems planned to use the American version of Blair/Kelly over here. We're just...some of us are even more angry than we expected to be even on our most cynical days.

Analytically speaking though, the memo is a gold mine. It's as good as the intelligence documents seized from Iraq by the CIA. It puts us right into the the seething, rotten, stinking mind of the enemy and gives us another glimpse of their thought processes. We may feel the need for a bath in bleach afterward, but the intelligence gained is invaluable.