The same way that Bush has no trouble going to sleep at night after screwing over the US.

Rice could very well be telling the truth about going to war anyway.

I don’t doubt that they wanted to, but no way do they get the political support necessary without “mushroom clouds.”

Meanwhile, bombs have continued going off in Iraq day after day. We as a people have failed future generations by allowing our culture to be shaped by authoritarian leaders who have mostly their own best interests in mind. There have been protests by the people, but so few so late and attended by such a very small percentage of the population. How many marches have we had targeting MSM and their artificial coverage of the world? What measures have we taken to restore credibility and honor to journalism? I’d just hazard a guess at least one in ten people think MSM news is totally fucked, but how many people have protested that? 1 in 25,000?

This was just about Condi Rice, though, so I apologize about the rant. We all know she’s a lying, conniving bitch. She’s almost as responsible for the death and mayhem as Bush is. She is not a good person, and because of her complicity and own actions she is just as slimy as Karl Rove. But we may have invaded Iraq anyway, because this way our troops get blown to shit instead of our cities. I’m just saying.

Yeah, I bet you did talk a lot about dissenting views. In case you don’t remember, Condi, that’s how Valerie Plame got outed, you disingenuous treasonous piece of offal.

“A Spy Speaks Out
Former Top CIA Official On “Faulty” Intelligence Claims

(CBS) When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller — a 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.

He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president’s determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not.

“It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure,” Drumheller tells Bradley.

Drumheller was the CIA’s top man in Europe, the head of covert operations there, until he retired a year ago. He says he saw firsthand how the White House promoted intelligence it liked and ignored intelligence it didn’t:

“The idea of going after Iraq was U.S. policy. It was going to happen one way or the other,” says Drumheller.

Drumheller says he doesn’t think it mattered very much to the administration what the intelligence community had to say. “I think it mattered it if verified. This basic belief that had taken hold in the U.S. government that now is the time, we had the means, all we needed was the will,” he says. ‘
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories…..7749.shtml

-G

Forgery, cherrypicking, stovepiping, leaking info and then citing it as further proof once it was published, the use of shills like Judy Miller and Michael Gordon, the refusal to accept or even acknowledge contrary information, the jingoism, the assertion of “imminent” threat in the absence of any, they used them all and now they blame it on everyone but themselves. But seriously, do any of us think that Ms. “No one could have predicted” has any credibility at all on anything.