Let’s assume Bush was telling the truth today
Even if we grant him the credibility that he was telling the truth about the NIE report (which was withheld from the public all year…. by whom?) ask yourself if the world’s most powerful leader is suggesting World War III may be possible, and if his team is failing to let him know what the NIE said till a week ago, and if he had a vague suggestion in August that the NIE contained different information that was notable, then:
1) This is December. Why did he wait three months for a followup?
2) If his staff is withholding such critical information for all year, doesn’t it indicate someone’s judgment is faulty?
3) If the most powerful executive office in the world is operating so dysfunctionally, why does anyone believe the Bush White House or the Republican Party is strong on national security and terrorism issues?
No Democratic president in history has ever suggested he was kept in the dark by his staff or was too incurious to ask for followup on information about a country he felt we were threatened by. If we accept him at his word, he just revealed to our real enemies how badly our White House foreign policy team is functioning.
And that’s pretty frightening to even imagine.
Is our White House really that structurally weak on national defense? According to Bush’s stunning testimony, yes, it is.
And that means our nation is at grave risk.
Update: if Joe Biden’s saying it this quickly, then Mr. President, the whole nation’s gonna reach this conclusion by tomorrow. So you better be ready to make your case permanently: are you a big fat liar or have you really set a new Guinness world record at Ultimate Presidential Sucking Way Bad?
December 5th, 2007 at 4:10 am
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