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Tuesday, April 5th, 2005Via WaPo I learned a second blogger was allowed into the White House briefing room last week—a liberal blogger of course—and actually got to ask press secretary Scott McClellan a question…
The blogger, Eric Brewer, of BTC News, gives a pretty dull retelling of the experience, but discusses the question he asked, and the reaction he anticipated. He asked McClellan, “Going back to the report on botched WMD intelligence, have the massive intelligence failures documented in the report caused the President to rethink his policy of preventive war?”
A pretty stupid question if you ask me… Nevertheless, I find it odd that liberals think that when our intelligence agencies, and the intelligence agencies of several other countries reached the same conclusion about Saddam Hussein and WMD, that President Bush should not have acted, but when a one and half page Presidential Daily Briefing from August 2001 reported that Bin Laden wanted to attack the United States back in 1998 that Bush could have single handedly prevent 9/11 from occuring with a preemptive strike.
Remember that August 6, 2001 PDB? Here’s a quote:
A clandestine source said in 1998 that a bin Laden cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [omitted] service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.
This part in particular brought the loony left to declare “Bush knew” and suggested that he could have done something to prevent 9/11 from happening. Nevermind the information was old and was not corroborated.
So, several countries’ intelligence services determine Saddam Hussein has WMD, Bush should do nothing, but uncorroborated reports from 1998 was so ironclad that Bush should have acted?
Intelligence can’t be 100% solid all the time, but liberals are the last people who should be determining which intel should be acted upon when they have the advantage of hindsight.
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