THE BIG LIE. ITS ONLY PURPOSE IS TO WIN AN ELECTION

The charges by the Democrats, my POV. Let me begin by saying that my disdain for the CIA goes back to the OSS and Army Intel during WWII. The OSS was a hot bed of Russian spies, was run out of the hip pocket of "Wild Bill" Donovan who I think almost blew WWII, and the miserable track record of our spy agencies continues to this day under the banner of the CIA.

We must not leave out the "torture narrative" being pissed out there by such stalwarts as Andrew ("if you're not gay you have nothing to say") Sullivan and Seymour (The Snore) Hersh who write in deathless prose that the bad old USA is responsible for a reign of terror not seen since Hitler or the Torror in the French Revolution. Both have proven in the past that their opinions are unreliable; Sullivan even got fired from the NYT. Read Heather MacDonald today about the "Torture Narrative."

There is no doubt, after looking at the evidence, that the current Democratic charges are not only false, but have been deliberately manufactured behind closed doors so that now they have The Big Lie, a libel and slander free pass; a lie with base intent that is parroted, amplified, and cheered on eagerly by all media. The only purpose the Big Lie serves is to win an election; if our troops die, the Democrats don't care. In fact they cheer every death because every death makes them "right" within their hallucinatory methane universe. And if you think "cheer" is an over the top representation of what is happening, I'll invite you to my apartment building and neighborhood and you will actually hear cheers on days in which the TV news reports four or six guys get killed. The fearless leader of the Democratic Party, Harry Reid, recently expanded on The Big Lie when he crowed about the Scooter Libby indictment, an indictment for lying about a source in the Valerie Plame case. Reid:

This case is bigger than the leak of classified information. It is about how the Bush White House manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to bolster its case for the war in Iraq and to discredit anyone who dared to challenge the president.

The head of the CIA told Bush it was a "slam dunk" that there were WMDs in Iraq. This was an opinion shared publicly by the intelligence agencies of Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Israel and--(awe, shock, oh no not)--France. All agreed. Even more, the CIA wasn't alone within our own intel establishment. Tenet had the backing of all 15 agencies involved in gathering intel for the US. The National Intelligence Estimate of 2002, where the collective intel views were summarized, one of the conclusions that was offered with "high confidence" was that "Iraq is continuing, and in some areas expanding its chemical, biological, nuclear, and missile programs contrary to UN resolutions." Colin Powell's chief of staff, who now seems to think the State Department was "wrong" as opposed to lying, and who has been viciously attacking Bush at every turn stated:

I can't tell you why the French, the Germans, the Brits and us thought that most of the material, if not all of it, that we presented at the U.N. on 5 February 2003 was the truth. I can't. I've wrestled with it. [But] when you see a satellite photograph of all the signs of the chemical-weapons ASP--Ammunition Supply Point--with chemical weapons, and you match all those signs with your matrix on what should show a chemical ASP, and they're there, you have to conclude that it's a chemical ASP, especially when you see the next satellite photograph which shows the UN inspectors wheeling in their white vehicles with black markings on them to that same ASP, and everything is changed, everything is clean. . . . But George [Tenet] was convinced, John McLaughlin [Tenet's deputy] was convinced, that what we were presented [for Powell's UN speech] was accurate.

Wilkerson even goes so far as to admit that

People say, well, INR (State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research) dissented. That's a bunch of bull. INR dissented that the nuclear program was up and running. That's all INR dissented on. They were right there with the chems and the bios.

A key phony point in the Bush Lied tissue of lies is the aluminum tube deal. The INR did say that they had doubt:

Iraq's efforts to acquire aluminum tubes [which are] central to the argument that Baghdad is reconstituting its nuclear-weapons program. . . . INR is not persuaded that the tubes in question are intended for use as centrifuge rotors . . . in Iraq's nuclear-weapons program.

Later in the same report INR stated:

Iraq's efforts to acquire aluminum tubes [which are] central to the argument that Baghdad is reconstituting its nuclear-weapons program. . . . INR is not persuaded that the tubes in question are intended for use as centrifuge rotors . . . in Iraq's nuclear-weapons program.

But the sworn enemy of Bush qualifies that statement as well....

The French came in in the middle of my deliberations at the CIA and said, we have just spun aluminum tubes, and by God, we did it to this rpm, et cetera, et cetera, and it was all, you know, proof positive that the aluminum tubes were not for mortar casings or artillery casings, they were for centrifuges. Otherwise, why would you have such exquisite instruments?

It is this statement regarding "exquisite" instruments that directly relates to the "yellowcake" in Niger, because to convert yellowcake to plutonium and then build a plutonium bomb requires "exquisite" technology. Every fact, every inside government report and analysis concluded that Iraq had WMDs and the capacity to use them. Everyone was wrong.

Everyone did not lie.

It is the Democrats, backed up by our Stalinesque fellow traveling media, that is lying. Period. And the lying is for the purpose of winning an election, not to help our country.

Were we prepared for anything at all inside Iraq? Hell no, as everyone with a brain can see. Is bad intel par for the course inside our government? Yes. A million times yes, and this pitiful track record goes all the way back to WWII when faulty intel cost us at least a million dead. Their record goes back to Sicily, Italy, Normandie, the Battle of the Bulge, island after island in the Pacific at a horrid cost, their failure to anticipate the collapse of the Soviet Union (something that super spy Herb Meyer DID predict); their track record was and is so bad that it led Senator Moynihan ("ideas have consequences") to call for the CIA to be dismantled once and for all.

But with all of this taken into account, IT IS THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE LYING, and lying with evil intent.

Now, back to Reggie Bush and the Heisman....... And if that's where you are too, read Peggy Noonan's column of Thursday last.