My thoughts exactly: I just had a huge wailing argument through e mail with an old “friend” who I hadn’t seen for 30 years, who sent me an earlier WaPo article on the same subject. This Bush-and-Cheney hating fellow assumes that a great many incriminating e mails passing back and forth amongst Bush appointees are going to reveal great substance to his claim that Bush lied to get us into war, and that some intelligence was withheld at the expense of only that intelligence which supported Bush’s war plans.
There is no irony in his perspective that perhaps some intelligence is weighed relative to other intelligence, and that, hard as the choice might be, one has to err on the side of safety.
This BUSH LIED thesis is not only impossible to prove, regardless of what one thinks of Bush, it is unlikely ANY President , through the agency of his own Justice Dept. will reveal ANYTHING that directly incriminates him as a “LIAR”. Among other things that’s what I was trying to tell this guy, and after a few more e mails from him which read like classic Leftist snarky snarliness, he told me “Yeah, you’re pissing me off. Let’s call off the emails”. But earlier he had managed to liken Cheney to Stalin, and badmouth Republicans as being friends with “anti-Castro Cubans”, and support Gore and his global warming scam. So I knew he was clueless anyway.
Hell we heard the same thing through the previous administration (Clinton). WMD’s were repeated left and right. Bush was going with what the intelligence reports that he received which was the same with the Clintons, Bush before Clinton and Reagan.
We all know that Obama’s arrogance is beyond pale. The POS, with all of his transparency will not let us see ONE document with regard to him, we need to rely on books that HE wrote about himself.
I truly don’t think that Bush and Cheney were these evil war mongers. There is absolutely no way anyone can say how they would respond after 9/11. What would be something is if these records were released and it came to bear that we had not even an iota of of how truly maniacal our enemies are and they did a fantastic job of protecting us, only to have realized that the press has been lying to us and thus we now have Dumb and Dumber in charge. Like they say, be careful what you wish for.