That seems to be the problem, T-zer... When you appoint idiologues as yer "most trusted advisors" you really aren't appointing people who will give you differing points of view...

In 20/20 hindasight this is painfully clear... These "trusted advisors" beat down the intellegece community in a time that they had the post 9-11 power to do so and the anaylists who said, "Hey, wait a minute, yer wrong" were either fired or ignored...

Yes, post 9-11 was the perfecy storm for Bush to get the US in the biggest mess since Vietnam and he has done his job well in doing just that... He sent Cheney to the CIA dayafter day after day to beat them up and get them "office speakin'" and inspite of the many brave and couragous anaylist who wouldn't bu7ckle under Cheneys relentless prssures, Bush cherry picked the so-called intellegence to make a case for invading Iraq...

You conviently forget that Tennant wasn't always the beat-down-lap-dog and forcefully and couragously told Bush "No, no, no" when Bush wanted to use the unrainium claim in his Oct 11th Cincinitti speach... Tenant also warned Bush prior to the State of the Union adress but the revisonists have no use for those particular facts, you included...

Did Bush lie??? Well, of course he did and a million revisionist Bush apologists can't and won't change that... Bush has never once said he didn't lie, has he??? Hmmmmmmm??? No, he's said that he was acting on the best intellgence (another lie, considering he had no use for discenting opionions) but he has never said that he didn't lie... One would think that with what the Repubs put Bill Clinton thru in regards to lieing that Bush most certainly have to ahev the same oversight that Slick Willie was given but...

...the politics just ain't the same and so in this post Clinton-i,pachement, post 9/11 erra, Bush has had a fre pass to purdy much screw things up without regard to the pressures that Clinton lived with and...

....guess what???

Bush has done a dandy job of scerwing up everything he has touched...Can anyone point to even one thing he's done right???

Thems is the facts... We all know it... T knows it... BB knows it... Dickey knows it but...

... in these partisan times one never admits that they were wrong and that's why no one ever pays for the screw-ups within the Bush administration...

Thems is the facts...

Bobert