TENET'S BLOODY LIES: "He Has The Blood Of American Soldiers On His Hands" (Larry C. Johnson)

[kpete]

A Bloody Lie of George Tenet
by
Larry C Johnson


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The public record is quite clear about the role George Tenet played in helping condition the American people to fear Iraq and support a preemptive war against Iraq. He helped build the myth that Al Qaeda enjoyed safehaven in Iraq and was biding its time to strike us again. George Tenet was not an honest broker trying to get the best intelligence to the President and the Congress. He willingly and knowingly agreed to make public statements and authorized statements that were at odds with the actual intelligence.

What do you think would have happened if George Tenet had gone to members of Congress and warned them that there was no relationship between Al Qaeda and Saddam’s Iraq? Would overwhelming majorities have voted to give the President authority to start a war with Iraq? I do not think so. Would Americans still raw from the wounds inflicted by Al Qaeda on 9-11 support the President’s campaign to attack a country which had nothing to do with those attacks and, despite claims to the contrary, was not protecting or enabling Al Qaeda operatives who wanted to launch new attacks against the United States? The answer. No, and hell no!

Lie is the only word that comes to mind and seems appropriate to describe what George Tenet has done. This is the chief reason I say he has the blood of American soldiers on his hands. And I, along with several former members of the CIA , the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Army, believe that George Tenet owes the soldiers and the families of soldiers who have died or been wounded in Iraq part of the proceeds from his $4 million dollar advance for his book. It would be the decent thing to do, but George Tenet’s decency quotient appears to be running on empty.

more at:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/a_bloody_lie_of.html

[spanone]

1. K&R

I watched Tenet on Hardball last night. He should be in jail, instead he's getting rich off the deaths of America's finest.

[liberalnurse]

3. Will he go on a Book signing tour?

If so, it's time to mobilize a protest blitz. :applause:

[dogday]

2. I would like to stand face to face with that man

and let him know what it feels like to have a Son in Iraq.... What a freaking bastard he is!!!!!