Why Commander in Chief Is Losing the War of the 16 Words (washingtonpost.com): "controversy had erupted after revelations that the White House and the CIA had battled last fall over removing similar language from the Oct. 7 speech.
When the White House attempted last Friday to portray Tenet's intervention in that episode as solely a technical matter involving intelligence sourcing, the CIA responded by letting it be known that Tenet had objected to exactly the same language that was in the State of the Union address.
The fact that it was backed up by memos forced the White House to go through the embarrassment of having Hadley publicly acknowledge he was at fault for not remembering in January that the White House had removed the same language just three months earlier."

Hadley is number 2 at the National Security Council. If he can't remember removing a justification for an unprecedented, pre-emptive war from the President's speech, on the urging of the Director of the CIA , what hope is there that he can do anything competently? And if these are the people who draft Bush's speech's, then why should we trust anything he says.
Clearly Bush doesn't care if what he says is true or not -- he has made no apology at all.
A first grader wouldn't get away with this. Why does Bush?
- posted by geoff @ #