Posted on 04/26/2007 8:47:49 PM PDT by james500
George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a “serious debate” about whether Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States.
The 549-page book, “At the Center of the Storm,” is to be published by HarperCollins on Monday. By turns accusatory, defensive, and modestly self-critical, it is the first detailed account by a member of the president’s inner circle of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the decision to invade Iraq and the failure to find the unconventional weapons that were a major justification for the war.
“There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat,” Mr. Tenet writes in a devastating judgment that is likely to be debated for many years. Nor, he adds, “was there ever a significant discussion” about the possibility of containing Iraq without an invasion.
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WHA?
Tenet, Clinton’s man?
Tenet, Clinton’s man?
Yeah George 9 mo of public debate was shortselling the US on honesty.
STFU Tenent
Yawn. Been here before.
He’s pulling all the old talking points.
Bush never said Iraq was an imminent threat to US territory.
It’s an old strawman.
This guy blew 9-11 and the terrorists training at flight schools. He blew the Sadaam WMD call. Now he comes out whining and undercutting. If he told everyone Sadaam had WMD after 9-11, how can he now claim everyone else rushed to war and none of it was his fault? What a jackass.
Saddam was a threat, and that was enough. There are some people are just too crazy to spend time debating whether or not they're going to pull the trigger this time or not. Saddam was one of those crazy people who needed to be taken out of power before he did it again... against us or against our allies, friends, or just the innocents within his own country who were slaughtered wholesale.
A madman with lots of oil money, who was bribing UN officials like crazy to have the restrictions lifted and who was succeeding at that, should not be allowed to continue on doing what he does, preparing to fight us, or in the aiding and abetting of our enemies while we're fighting a war in his backyard.
Tenet either knows this and puts his political loyalties before his country, or he honestly is a vapid idiot.
He had to read the fine print on the medal and now claims he accepted it ONLY because it mentioned all the stuff popular with the current field of dem presidential hopefuls, and didn't emphasize the now unpopular stuff. What a smelly crock of BS.
He’s a paid weasle
The real debate SHOULD be why the hell we didnt move from Iraq to finish off Iran and/or Syria, after which there would hardly be a state sponsor of terrorism left.
IIRC - wasn’t Tenet the one who said Saddam’s having WMD’s was a “slam dunk”?
I guess Bush didn’t get much mileage out of that medal he gave to Tenet. I remember back when people on the inside wouldn’t ‘talk’ until the president was either out of office or dead. Wow how the times have changed, and when book sales are on the line.
This man presided over the largest, most deadly intelligence failure in US History on 9/11. He then went on to screw up the intelligence on Iraq. Now, to escape blame for historic incompetency, he does what all Democrats do, blame Republicans in a book. All the while knowing the dishonest, disgraceful media in this country will help him in his mission. What a total POS this guy is.
I really don't have the time.
You remember correctly.
The debate for me is “why didnt we examine the caravans to syria in the 9 mos of public debate in the UN leading to the war in Iraq”?
We all watched the debates wile the bad guys got away before our eyes.
And no one seems to recall.
They whined and moaned how it was semi rigs loaded with refugees who feared Americas on coming wrath.
Did antone make a check of those streams of trucks?
flippin idiot
Tony Snow is looking smarter every day. He said that tell all books from Washington insiders should be titled, “If Only They Would Have Listened To Me!”
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