The evidence is obvious and each day new facts materialize to confirm it. The President is a lying sack of $#@* along with having a lazy and undeveloped mind, indifferent to the moral and legal responsibilities of the office. It's beyond pathetic to watch how this administration works at damage control purely for political means while Americans are dying over a war created for personal profits and election year propaganda.


Why Commander in Chief Is Losing the War of the 16 Words
Thu Jul 24, 1:00 AM ET
By Dan Balz and Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writers

If President Bush ( news -web sites )'s White House is known for anything, it is competence at delivering a disciplined message and deftness in dealing with bad news. That reputation has been badly damaged by the administration's clumsy efforts to explain how a statement based on disputed intelligence ended up in the president's State of the Union address.

How did the White House stumble so badly? There are a host of explanations, from White House officials, their allies outside the government and their opponents in the broader debate about whether the administration sought to manipulate evidence while building its case to go to war against Iraq ( news -web sites ).

But the dominant forces appear to have been the determination by White House officials to protect the president for using 16 questionable words about Iraq's attempts to buy uranium in Africa and a fierce effort by the Central Intelligence Agency ( news -web sites ) to protect its reputation through bureaucratic infighting that has forced the president's advisers to repeatedly alter their initial version of events.

At several turns, when Bush might have taken responsibility for the language in his Jan. 28 address to the country...






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