While in Canberra, picked up the paperback potted 9/11 Commission Report.
Serial incompetence is the phrase. Boy, are the US security agencies over-bureaucratised into occasionally reaching the dizzy heights of semi-competence.
This is the real killer criticism of Dubya: Dear Mr President, you relied on the advice of intelligence agencies which had proved spectactularly incompetent in the lead up to 9/11 on Iraqi WMDs and, once again, they massively screwed up. Fooled by their incompetence once, shame on them. Fooled by their incompetence twice, shame on you. Pleace explain.
The thing about this criticism is, of course, (1) it bypasses the argument on ins and outs of Iraq, so has maximum appeal (2) it feeds into two-fifths of Americans thinking Dubya has no plan to win in Iraq.
If the Kerry campaign has any brains, it's the line they'll hammer for all it's worth.
Re: I probably shouldn't ask
While in Canberra, picked up the paperback potted 9/11 Commission Report.
Serial incompetence is the phrase. Boy, are the US security agencies over-bureaucratised into occasionally reaching the dizzy heights of semi-competence.
This is the real killer criticism of Dubya: Dear Mr President, you relied on the advice of intelligence agencies which had proved spectactularly incompetent in the lead up to 9/11 on Iraqi WMDs and, once again, they massively screwed up. Fooled by their incompetence once, shame on them. Fooled by their incompetence twice, shame on you.
Pleace explain.
The thing about this criticism is, of course,
(1) it bypasses the argument on ins and outs of Iraq, so has maximum appeal
(2) it feeds into two-fifths of Americans thinking Dubya has no plan to win in Iraq.
If the Kerry campaign has any brains, it's the line they'll hammer for all it's worth.