A confederacy of conspiracists

A confederacy of conspiracists

It would be frightening if there are as many hard-core conspiracy theorists as the number of believers in 'Bush lied!' suggests.

By Patrick Chisholm csmonitor.com

One of the most widely held conspiracy theories in the history of the United States is the assertion that President Bush lied in order to launch the Iraq war.
The theory alleges that high-level Bush administration officials privately knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, but publicly maintained there were WMD in order to build support for invading that country. WMD, according to this view, was only a pretext for what most proponents of the "Bush lied!" school of thought believe was the real reason for going into Iraq: oil.


By definition, "Bush lied!" means there was a multifaceted conspiracy that included not only as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleezza Rice, but also Colin Powell, then serving as secretary of State; British Prime Minister Tony Blair; the CIA; British intelligence; and even the Clinton administration, all of whom maintained that Saddam Hussein possessed WMD.

But sensational conspiracy theories - the kind that contradict the evidence - rarely turn out to be true.

The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report, the Robb-Silberman Commission report, and Britain's Butler report found that the Bush administration did not lie, distort, or prod intelligence agencies to alter their findings on WMD. Robb-Silberman concluded that it was "the paucity of intelligence and poor analytical tradecraft, rather than political pressure, that produced the inaccurate pre-war intelligence assessments."

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While I don't pit much stock in conspiracy theories I do put a lot of stock in being inept.

Definition of the word inept.
in·ept (ĭn-ĕpt')

[Latin ineptus, in-, not; see in–1, + aptus, suitable; see apt.]

adjective
Not apt or fitting; inappropriate.

Displaying a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; foolish: an inept remark.
Bungling or clumsy; incompetent: inept handling of the account.

If any word defines Bush & Co inept fits the bill. Far from being the neo-Conservative geniuses some people seem to think Bush & Co are they are in fact inept to a fault. The 'port deal' being the latest in a long line of inept actions.

Invading Iraq wasn't wrong it was just 'spun wrong'. See the word inept again.