So Bush's defense is that he got fooled by the CIA

[soupkitchen]

You mean Pappy never told him how the CIA works

[number9]

1. but then he says he has complete confidence in them

including Tenet. Makes no sense - again - in this upside down-alice-through-the-looking-glass world we now inhabit.

[Birthmark]

2. It's not a defense - it's a diversion

The question of why the uranium statement was included in the SOTU is still open, and must be answered.

[CarlBallard]

5. I agree

It's not like CIA wrote the speech for goodness sake.

[JohnKleeb]

3. he was getting high while Poppy gave him CIA 101

He gets high during the lessons I mean not high he uses cocaine not pot silly me.

[Cocoa]

4. that's not even the defense

the defense is that Cheney successfully bullied the CIA into signing off on the speech.

[Birthmark]

6. Signing off on the speech, maybe.

But the CIA *told* the WH that it was bogus information. *Somebody* in the WH insisted that that line be kept in the SOTU.

[Kahuna]

7. No. It's that the CIA didn't wrestle him to the ground..

to prevent him from using that Niger statement like they should have.