Letters to the Editor

• The strange mirror world of the Bush administration pt2

  [Read the article: George Tenet, spook for all seasons]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  My point is that this list is quite disturbing and it's real, no-one serious disputes it and yet there seems to be little harm to Bush et al that comes from it. I know the president is unpopular but I think that's because of the numbers of injured and military dead in the red states. That's what's turned the tables on him. The MSM has not run with these scandals the way it ran the false ones against Clinton. Only recently has the attorney general sackings caught up with him.

  These people are so dishonourable that no good could come from anything they ever planned. Even though they deposed one of the most cruel and sadistic tyrants of all time, they didn't do it with the right motive and they prolonged the agony of the Iraqis. It was naive of anyone to think that anything of value could ever be done by people of such low character and machiavellian bent. These kinds of people have different priorities in the world and they don't really care about the normal stuff, and what you don't care about you overlook, hence their plans will always be flawed.

  it reminds me of the story of the ad exec who was divorcing his wife and came up with the bright wheeze to sell the benefits to his two sons in the form of an 'optimistic' Powerpoint presentation (you'll each get more toys, you'll go on twice as many holidays etc...)

  Tenet is just an angry out of control self-deceptive individual, as SB points out all his main rebuttals against his so-called integrity are well documented as being lies. He can be added to the list. The man from Queens, probably quite capable in general got in with a bad crowd who had bad motives, couldn't bring himself to do the honourable thing has been fighting a rear-guard action for the last few years to get back a shred of his dignity and former reputation. It's a story well told and we've heard it all before, but we can add to the dishonourable and the non-contrite that are in charge of the world these days that hardly anyone does the decent thing and apologises unreservedly for their own failures in a way that is unequivocal and from the heart.

  For well meaning and decent people everywhere the list of scandals I've outlined should be real food for thought. If I were a conservative I'd be really dpressed about Bush just the way that many liberals thought that Clinton had sullied the president's holding of Office with his carryings on with Lewinsky. And he had. But as many have pointed out before, Clinton's sleaze were in retrospect markers for a golden age of the presidency when the worst thing that happened is that a blouse needed dry cleaning, who would've thought that the next one along would be so shockingly and unspeakably unethical that it would make you nostalgic for the distasteful details we had to put up with the MSM rehashing again and again ad infinitum.

  Permalink Thursday, May 3, 2007 03:36 AM