The former intelligence guys referenced below have written an open letter to President Bush suggesting that 1) Cheney resign; 2) General Brent Scowcroft (former Nat'l. Security Adviser to George Herbert Walker Bush) head up an independent commission to investigate the use/misuse of intelligence in the decision to go to war in Iraq; and 3) UN inspectors be immediately allowed to enter Iraq to continue their work.
I doubt that the President will take their advice, but it's interesting to see how angry the intelligence pros are. Ray McGovern is a member of the group's steering committee; on NPR yesterday he said the group now had more than 30 high-level former intelligence analysts as members; they formerly worked at State, the CIA, and the FBI.
And now the current intelligence folks are getting into the act: the Administration seems to want to say Syria is doing terrible things, and the CIA has objected.
Congressman Ron Paul's speech thoroughly blasted the neo-cons on the floor of the House July 10, 2003. He's coming at them from the libertarian point of view, but as far as I know this is the first full frontal assault on the group by a member of Congress.
Posted by Linkmeister at July 16, 2003 12:28 PMi have so much to say about this, but i don't have the words at the moment. i just hope that 'merika will see that she was duped by this "patriot."
Posted by: shelley at July 16, 2003 04:30 PMWe can only hope so. Personally, I'm waiting for the next forged terrorist warnings, moving us to Code Orange or beyond...
Posted by: The Other Scott at July 17, 2003 02:15 AM