“SLAM DUNK:” “This country faces important tasks, like completing the liberation and stabilization of Iraq and stopping Iran’s Islamofascist regime in Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. Why, with a global war on terror to win, are we wasting time worrying about a years-old quip?”
Because Tenet, who should have been fired shortly after 9/11, is still trying to justify himself. As are a lot of press, pundits, and politicians who supported the war in 2002 and 2003, and who often went on about Saddam’s threat as far back as the 1990s, but are trying to execute a pivot in time for 2008. But read the whole thing. And don’t miss the video here.
Oh, hell, I’ll just embed it below: