RON SUSKIND IS A PATRIOT

I almost didn't use the word "patriot" because the wingnuts have misused the term to justify their warped agenda but Suskind did a great book on Paul O'Neill, Bush's 1st Secretary of the Treasury, that let us know attacking Iraq was on Bush's mind from day 1. Suskind has new book, The Way of the World, that claims the criminal Bush regime forged a letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein in order to show there was a link between Saddam and Al Qaeda. This smells like a Cheney operation but Suskind offers no hard evidence of Cheney's involvement.

George the Whore Tenet had this to say about the book:

Tenet says about Habbush in the statement: “In fact, the source in question failed to persuade his British interlocutors that he had anything new to offer by way of intelligence, concessions, or negotiations with regard to the Iraq crisis and the British – on their own – elected to break off contact with him.

“There were many Iraqi officials who said both publicly and privately that Iraq had no WMD – but our foreign intelligence colleagues and we assessed that these individuals were parroting the Ba’ath party line and trying to delay any coalition attack. The particular source that Suskind cites offered no evidence to back up his assertion and acted in an evasive and unconvincing manner.”

Tenet himself had claimed early in 2001 that we had no " direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs” and we know from Hans Blix that the U.N. inspectors went to sites recommended by U.S. intelligence and found NOTHING. The latter fact should have been enough to stop the war but Tenet, among others, was a coward and did not stand up for the truth.