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on “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla.

President George W. Bush (11/3/03):
I’m saying I’m going to listen to the generals who say, Mr. President, we’ve got — we need more, we need less, we’ve got exactly the right number. They will tell me the number…And their job is to help the Iraqis secure their country, and they assess all the time, […]

“When I first got here, I felt like I could actually do some good for the Iraqi people,” Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Barker said. But the last six months had hardened him, he said. “We’re not going to change the Iraqis. I don’t care how many halal meals we give out,” he added, referring to […]

Though he certainly hasn’t run out of incompetent failures to reward with Medals of Freedom, this year the President decided to honor individuals with no prior record (except Alan Greenspan and General Richard Myers) of misreading intelligence, inept war planning, or mismanaging reconstruction. Celebrity recipients this time included Muhammad Ali, Carol Burnett, Aretha Franklin, […]

about how everyone saw the same intelligence. Just stop.

“If the administration felt it had to take preemptive action in Iran, North Korea, Syria, or some nukastan to safeguard the vital interests of the United States, it wouldn’t have sufficient intelligence assets, transport, manpower, etc. The administration’s commitment to non-military ways of enforcing and enhancing non-proliferation and disarmament is laughable; meanwhile we slip ever […]

Vice President Dick Cheney (11/21/05):
Those who advocate a sudden withdraw from Iraq should answer a couple simple questions. Would the United States and other free nations be better off or worse off with Zarqawi, Bin Laden and Zawahiri in control Iraq? Would we be safer or less safe with Iraq ruled by men intent upon […]

If this administration has one defining characteristic in terms of their overall style of functioning, it would have to be what we can politely call the dishonest dissemination of less than truthful information. What they have excelled at, pretty much from the very beginning, is the politics of misinformation. But ultimately this is […]

Reuters (11/21/05):
CIA interrogators use “unique” methods to obtain “vital” information from prisoners, but strictly obey laws against torture, CIA Director Porter Goss said in an interview published on Monday.
“This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work,” Goss said in an interview with USA Today. “We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information […]

…Dick Cheney wanted to be President.