re: #1121 Cannadian Club Akbar

Um, head of the CIA was hold over, IIRC.

George Tenet In Office July 11, 1997 – July 11, 2004.

I said absolutely nothing about who appointed him. Just that he was the CIA director when Bush was given the Iraq intel and after.

If, as George Bush now claims, he decided to invade Iraq because of bad intelligence given to him by the C.I.A, then it was George Tenet who gave him this bad intelligence. If Bush isn’t to blame, then Tenet is. At least from Bush’s perspective…

Look - imagine you’re the President. You just made what turned out to be the biggest fuckup in the history of Presidenting. You tell everybody it’s that guy’s fault for giving you bad info (never even mind “the buck stops here”). Then a year later, you bestow the same guy with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

What part of this picture doesn’t fit?