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Tenet on "60 Minutes"

I watched the interview, along with 15-20 million other people. I'm still not sure what to make of it. It seemed to me that his objection to Cheney and Bush's use of his phrase "slam dunk" was that he feels they were using his words to justify the war on Iraq, and that wasn't what he meant at the time.

Listening to the vice president go on 'Meet The Press' on the fifth year of 9/11, and say, 'Well, George Tenet said, slam dunk.' As if he needed me to say slam dunk to go to war with Iraq," Tenet tells Pelley. "And they never let it go. I mean, I became campaign talk. I was a talking point. You know, 'Look at what the idiot told us, and we decided to go to war.' Well, let's not be so disingenuous. Let's stand up. This is why we did it. This is why, this is how we did it. And let's tell, let's everybody tell the truth."

So lemme get this straight. Tenet did say the intelligence was good enough to confirm that Iraq had WMD, thus a "slam dunk," but now he objects to the use of his term as the final impetus for going to war?

That's way too fine a distinction for me. Mr. Tenet, you knew what these clowns were going to do about Iraq. If you felt they were hasty and misusing your own words, you should have said something loudly and publicly at the time.

Posted by Linkmeister at April 30, 2007 01:19 PM | TrackBack