Bush burning
via Patrick Nielsen Hayden, the editorial from the WSJ that, using truisms and clichés, exonerates the President from its lies about the casus belli against Iraq, specifically, on the case of the yellow cake from Niger. Instead of assuming full responsibility, as NPR clearly pointed out is the action taken historically by those Presidents such as Truman, Kennedy and Roosevelt, Bush hides under his father’s old agency and blames it all on those unreliable spies, specially the British.
Patrick also quotes Elton Beard, with a condensed form of the editorial in question:
The task of America's intelligence agencies is not to provide policy makers with reliable data but to fabricate evidence in support of administration policies which the public would reject if it knew the truth.
Got to love the bokononists to extract truth from doublespeak.