凯 Kai Vilmi

So, now this whole Iraq fuck-up is the fault of the United Nations and other countries — and not at least of the United States and the so-called Coalition of the Willing?

These Republican spin doctors surely know how to turn black into white: “The report found that US intelligence relied too much ‘on foreign government services and third-party reporting, thereby increasing the potential for manipulation of US policy by foreign interests‘”. [My emphasis]

As The Guardian reports:

Pat Roberts, the Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, insisted the war was still justified on humanitarian grounds, to liberate the Iraqi people. He also argued that the intelligence failure was not solely the fault of the CIA.

“While we did not specifically address it in our report, it is clear that this group-think also extended to our allies and to the United Nations and several other nations as well, all of whom did believe the Saddam Hussein had active WMD programs,” Mr Roberts said. “This was a global intelligence failure.”

The report found that US intelligence relied too much “on foreign government services and third-party reporting, thereby increasing the potential for manipulation of US policy by foreign interests”.

It is unfortunate that the majority of the U.S. electorate laps up this sort of misinformation without a single question, and most probably will agree with the conservative indoctrinators — Rush Limbaugh et al. — that the god-privileged true-red U.S. of A was hoodwinked again by those “Uropeans” to sacrifice its best and brightest (what an oxymoron since we are talking about the U.S. Army) on the distant battlefields of the Middle East.

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