'Add extreme dishonesty and the media-enhanced cult of personality that has developed to cover Bush's obvious intellectual shortcomings, and you've got yourself the makings of a real mess. With respect to 9/11, the administration went into cover-up mode almost before the World Trade Center's twin towers had fallen - putting out a since-retracted story that the president high-tailed it to Nebraska because of a specific, credible threat to Air Force One.
'There's reportedly a made-for-TV movie in the works in which a jut-jawed president demands to be taken back to Washington to face the enemy. I guess they'll airbrush away all those press briefings in which Ari Fliescher kept insisting the U.S. had "no warning" of the al Qaeda sneak attack. CBS News later reported that Bush had, in fact, received an urgent CIA briefing of imminent al-Qaeda terrorist strikes roughly a month before 9/11. He continued his vacation.
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'"What this administration has done to military and intelligence professionals in government is disgraceful," Former Reagan assistant defense secretary Lawrence Korb told Salon. 27-year CIA veteran Ray McGovern, head of an organization called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, has described the administration's pressure tactics as "worse than the Gulf of Tonkin" - the fabricated incident that got us into Vietnam.' - Gene Lyons.
Soldiers died.
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