As you sow, so shall you reap?
…from the statement by Governor Marc Racicot, Chairman, Bush-Cheney `04, chastising John Kerry for his comments about the President’s National Guard service:
…A man seeking the presidency has an obligation to get the facts straight…
While just three days
earlier, the Washington Post reported…
President Bush has agreed to support an independent inquiry into the prewar intelligence that he used to assert that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction……David Kay, (former US chief weapons inspector in Iraq) who resigned his post nine days ago, testified Wednesday that “we were almost all wrong” about Iraq’s weapons programs. He said it was unlikely that stockpiles would be found in Iraq.
Six separate panels — the House and Senate intelligence committees, a CIA internal review team, the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the newly refocused CIA-led Iraq Survey Group and an Army team — are already investigating the prewar intelligence process.
Try as I might to hold some middle ground this year, some days it’s just harder to be sympathetic and all this story making gets just too weird.