WTF Is It Now?!?

"Bring 'em on!" Bunnypants refuses to take blame
Bush and his national security adviser had been unequivocal in blaming the CIA. ''I gave a speech to the nation that was cleared by the intelligence services,'' Bush had told reporters in Uganda. "I didn't do it! It was HIS fault! He MADE me do it! Waaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!"

National security adviser Condoleezza Rice was blunter. ''The CIA cleared the speech in its entirety,'' she said. If Tenet had concerns about the information, ''these doubts were not communicated to the president.'' "There, there, Georgie, it's all right now. Here, have a lollypop..."

"The president considers the matter closed and wants to move on," White House spokes-tool Ari 'the Liar' Fleischer said.

"The president is pleased that the director of Central Intelligence sacrificed himself for the White House acknowledged what needed to be acknowledged, which was the circumstances surrounding the State of the Union speech," Fleischer continued. "The president said that line because it was based on information from the intelligence community, and the speech was vetted."

Bush Considers Iraq Uranium Issue Closed: "In a carefully scripted mea culpa, the White House on Friday blamed the CIA for its January misstep, with Bush saying the CIA had reviewed his address and did not raise any alarms. Tenet finished the job hours later with a dramatic statement accepting responsibility.

"The director took his cue from Bush and Rice, who hours earlier blamed the error on the CIA. "

The Bush administration is engaged in frantic finger-pointing as it tries to explain how its handling of faulty intelligence on allegations of Iraqi nuclear smuggling produced so few red flags.

''The continued finger-pointing, charge-countercharge and bureaucratic warfare within the administration do nothing to make this country safer and will simply further erode the confidence of the American public and our allies around the world,'' said John Kerry, Democratic presidential hopeful.

''Everyone is trying to evade responsibility,'' Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said in a telephone interview from Detroit. ''There is to me very disturbing evidence of deception somewhere. Where the deception is we don't know, but there is an inquiry going on.''