The funny thing is that he is at the same time right, and the same time wrong in this assessment. He wants a full investigation. "By setting up the investigation himself, Bush will have greater control over its membership and mandate." After everything that has happened, I am not sure that is wise. Frankly, after all the other deceptions, I don't think Bush is responsible (or honest) enough to do this.

The best way I can compare this is to football which is also somewhat fitting at the moment. A coach calls a play on what he thinks the other team is going to do. He calls this play maybe on his personal observations or maybe from viewing video files of the other team in action. The thing is that if he calls the wrong play, the worst that can happen is that he looses the game. If he looses too many games, he will loose his job.

In the case of George W. Bush, he called a "preemptive-" war based on faulty intelligence. Intelligence that he was aware may not have been good from the very beginning. The problem in this case is that the United States didn't lose a game, it lost lives- both American and Iraqi. I dare say more innocent than not. In the meantime, Bush has plundered the treasury, and created laws that infringe on the civil rights of all Americans. This was done all in the name of a "bad call, a "mistake, or "faulty intelligence".

It certainly destroys his case for "preemptive" war.

It is irresponsible.
It is inexcusable.
It ruins all of George W. Bush's credibility.

At the end of the baseball season, a lot of managers were fired for not taking their team to the World Series, or for having so many losses and not enough wins.

The Bush Administration has lost life.
The Bush Administration has lost money with a deficit of 521 billion projected for fiscal year 2004.

Think about what the parents, widows, widowers, and children of dead service men and women are thinking and feeling as these "intelligence failures" are coming to light.

These are all things to think about and remember when November comes around.

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Sources:
FBI Issues and 9/11, BBC Newsnight, (Date Unknown)(You will need Real Player to play this report)
Partial Transcript of Above Report

Congressional Reports: CIA/FBI Failures, (February 2002)

Whistleblower Complains of FBI Obstruction, FoxNews.com, May 30, 2002

Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel, CBSNews.com, May 23, 2002

CIA Says FBI Told of Eventual Hijacker as Congressional Probe of 9/11 Failures Opens, FoxNews.com, June 04, 2002

Report: FBI, CIA need overhaul, CNN.com, July 17, 2002