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Tenet: Cheney Distorted His ‘Slam Dunk’ RemarkPosted on Apr 27, 2007In a new memoir, former CIA Director George Tenet accepts some responsibility for his intelligence assessment of Iraq in the buildup to war, but he also blames the Bush administration for its ill-founded determination to invade. He takes particular issue with Vice President Dick Cheney for citing Tenet’s “slam dunk” statement as justification for war: “I remember watching and thinking: ‘As if you needed me to say “slam dunk” to convince you to go to war with Iraq.’ ”
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By LANCE, May 1, 2007 at 7:39 am # Bush couldn’t be possible without Ronnie Reagan.
By tmulvey, April 29, 2007 at 12:16 am # Don’t jump on George Tenet so fast! Read Tyler Drumheller’s book “On The Brink”, and Richard Clarke’s “Against All Enemies”, as well as Woodward’s “State of Denial” and you may come away with a different opinion of him. I agree with entry by #66868 Gradioc (thanks for your comment). You can make the argument Tenet perhaps could have done more but the Neo-anderthal Cons , and most of all Cheney ,Libby, Feith and Wolfowitz were damned and determined to decieve the public and congress with bogus claims no matter what. From all the reading I’ve done I put Tenet and Colin Powell in the same boat- they got caught up in the madness by bowing to the #1 principle of loyalty against their better judgement, and have since regretted it.
By Kwagmyre, April 27, 2007 at 9:21 pm # As Larry Johnson, former CIA officer said on the Keith Obermann show on msnbc, if Tenet had ANY kind of conscience he would donate a significant portion of the $4,000,000 advance from that newly released book to the families of soldiers killed in the American instigated Civil War in Iraq. But Machiavellian manipulators like him don’t exactly suffer such pangs of conscience.
By vet240, April 27, 2007 at 7:54 pm # He takes particular issue with Vice President Dick Cheney for citing Tenet’s “slam dunk” statement as justification for war: “I remember watching and thinking: ‘As if you needed me to say “slam dunk” to convince you to go to war with Iraq.’ ” “I remember watching and thinking”. But you were wanting that medal were’nt you tenut? People like you have allowed one arrogant mad man and one arrogant stupid man take us all into hell. When are you Democrats going to face your Consitutional mandate and Impeach these two mad men. Clean house so the world can see we’re not all crazy in America.
By DennisD, April 27, 2007 at 6:59 pm # A Bu$hbot gets a fat “payday”. Pinch me. “Surprise, surprise, surprise” - Gomer Pyle. Just another accomplice that I hope the dead are haunting every f**king night!
By jeffrey, April 27, 2007 at 5:10 pm # only one question,,,, why did’nt he tell us this BEFORE the last presidential election,,,,,,,,, make that 2 questions why did’nt he say something before the “invasion”?(
By Louise, April 27, 2007 at 3:38 pm # Add one more name to the list of “I didn’t do it” ers. How many on that list now? Getting so crowded in that “un-uh, not me” room who’s Bush going to invite over to celebrate his impeachment?
By M.Currey, April 27, 2007 at 11:57 am # How many people get on the talk shows because they are writing a book, G. Tenent is just adding to the list. The man can use all the double talk he wants, he was in Bush/Chaney’s pocket all along, also the regime was made up of Rice, Gonzales, and they tried to have Powell go along with their ride, but he bailed out, Thank God, someone had some backbone. Of course Rove is also in this illegal government, and he is so slime that he used religion to get Bushie Boy in the White House. Hang em high. M.Currey
By FrostedFlakes, April 27, 2007 at 10:28 am # George Tenet is still just as responsible as Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney, George “The Anti-Midas” Bush, Condi “Boots” Rice, and Donald “Dumb-Ass” Rumsfield for leading this nation into an unjust war and occupation. He hasn’t given back his Medal of Freedom , so quit bitching! Tenet knew exactly what he was doing. It’s a little to late to try to act like he has a conscience. This is just another ploy, only this time it’s for book sales. A four million dollar advance could make anyone feign disillusionment.
By dale Headley, April 27, 2007 at 10:01 am # Mr.Tenet’s mea culpa would be much more persuasive if he would return the Medal of Freedom with which he was bribed by George Bush to keep his mouth shut. Now that he’s blabbing all over the place, he doesn’t deserve the medal, does he?
By THOMAS BILLIS, April 27, 2007 at 7:15 am # George Tenet should be tried for treason and hung by that absurd medal that George Bush gave him and Bremer.I guess its rewritehistory time and Tenet is trying to get his rewritein early.Mcnamara tried and failed. I guess Tenet figures he is a better writer.They all including Powell gave the Moron In Chief ju8stification to go to war and now that it looks like it might not turn out so well Tenet is first one out of the box with his bullshit version.If he thought that things were being misconstrued he should have resigned and stepped forward with whatever he could have said that was declassified.To whom does Tenet owe loyalty to the Country or George Bush.Boy if Hitler only had more loyal subordinates like Tenet we would be speaking German.To paraphrase Milton “the hottest place in hell is reserved for those who see evil and do nothing”.George if you get chest pains I reccommend you put on a bathing suit.
By Alejandro, April 27, 2007 at 7:07 am # The adage “A day late and a dollar short” comes to mind. 3,300+ Americans dead, 25,000+ wounded, thousands traumatized for life. Untold, perhaps hunderds of thousands of Iraqi people dead and a good number of them innocent childern. WOW! Unbelievable! I feel dirty for some reason. Will there be no accounting for the dis-honor that has been brought upon our nation?
By James Yell, April 27, 2007 at 6:36 am # Well this isn’t news. The only people who thought we had a reason for going to the invasion of Iraq, were people too lazy to read the balance of the report on Iraq as a danger and the information that had been around for years that the Royal Saudi’s had paid for control of Saudi Oil by buying off the mullahs and paying for the radicalization of Islam, although from my vantage point Islam is radical enough on any given day in history. Saudi’s hide the transfers of money to terrorist and refused any encouragement or request to help track these people down. It was all Saudi’s that did 9/11. Response of Bush/Cheney smuggle the Saudi’s out of the country and start talking about the dangers of Iraq, which country had nothing to do with 9/11. Thousands dead. It should have been about 9/11, but it was about Bush/Cheney arrogance, love of cash and oil which makes cash. Our laws have been violated by our supposed elected officials, who swore to the God they supposedly believe in more than the rest of us, they can’t even defend what they did with any honesty, as the good of the United States had nothing to do with it, just as Iraq had nothing to do with it, except as a distraction from their complicity with the Saudi’s and the desire if not to own Iraq Oil to at lest control Iraq Oil. What do we get from the opposition? Equivacation over if one slap on the wrist is too extreme in dealing with George Bush and Dick Cheney, men-things who have repeatedly shown they have no interest in a balanced relationship with the rest of the country. Impeach Bush/Cheney and do it now. Add Your Comment |
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