Saturday, April 02, 2005
Send the Cat to get the Fish
The title is a translation of a Thai saying. We have similar sayings in English, such as "Put the fox in charge of the henhouse." Anyway, that is my thought upon reading and hearing the news yesterday that a Presidential Commission - that is, a Commission appointed by President George W. Bush - had laid the blame for the false information about Iraq's program of Weapons of Mass Destruction entirely on the intelligence agencies.
Well, what should we expect from a Presidential Commission? The stories about movable laboratories for growing anthrax, about the procurement of uranium from Niger, and so on, that the President and his Secretary of State used to justify the war in Iraq were not his fault. No, he was totally innocent and was misled by those incompenet fools in the CIA and Military Intelligence and other spy agencies.
The report was a disappointment but not a surprise.
Well, what should we expect from a Presidential Commission? The stories about movable laboratories for growing anthrax, about the procurement of uranium from Niger, and so on, that the President and his Secretary of State used to justify the war in Iraq were not his fault. No, he was totally innocent and was misled by those incompenet fools in the CIA and Military Intelligence and other spy agencies.
The report was a disappointment but not a surprise.
