Tenet The Ass!

A Leftinistra Contradicts Itself? Really? WOW!

A Leftinistra Contradicts Itself? Really? WOW!

Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:36 AM

And This Is A Surprise? How So? Whowoodathunkit? SHAZA’AM!!

George Tenet Contradicts Himself

In his new book At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA George Tenet depicts President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq as a foregone conclusion, but he seemed to have a different version of events when I interviewed him just after the invasion. (shh!! smoke and mirrors)

Strongly implying that he was against the war from the beginning, the former director of Central Intelligence writes that, as far as he knows, the Bush administration never had a “serious debate” about the “imminence of the Iraqi threat” or even seriously considered the implications of an invasion or the possible consequences.

Moreover, Tenet writes, there seemed to be a “lack of curiosity in asking these kinds of questions.” After 9/11, Tenet writes, the decision to go to war became a “runaway freight train.”

As noted in a May 2 NewsMax story, Dick Cheney’s Real Role, the United States did not invade Iraq until a year and a half after 9/11.

Even though he saw Bush at least once a day, six days a week, Tenet admits in the book that he did not raise any objections to Bush’s decision.

“Such decisions properly belong to the policy-makers, not to intelligence officials,” Tenet writes. But in an interview for my 2003 book, The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror, Tenet presented what appears to be a different account. (what? that was “then”…this is “now”. things change somehow to a Leftinistra someplace between “then” and “now”.)

Pressed about the opposition to the war and whether going to war was the right thing to do, Tenet went on in our interview: “Going to war is a pretty serious decision for anybody to take. The reason this is a great country is people can express those views. The debate is important and healthy. All I can offer,” Tenet said, “is this is not a president who went to war frivolously. He thought about it. He understood the consequences. He understood the potential for the loss of life. He deeply cared about the people who would execute the mission.” (that was “then”.)

But in his book, Tenet lists among the possibilities and issues that the administration allegedly did not consider, “Was it wise to go to war? Was it the right thing to do?” (this is “now”.)

Does anyone besides me recognize the pattern(s) here?

Read the whole article…it is kind of lengthy.