Misleading the American People

CNN is reporting that a person inside the CIA told Bush administration officials that the evidence on Iraq's WMD programs was faulty, but was ignored. This official crossed out of a report, for example, some of the most dramatic and compelling of then-Sec. of State Colin Powel's report to the UN about mobile biological/chemical weapon labs. He said the facts weren't there. The Bush administration ignored him. Then they misled the American people and took the nation to a war that was unnecessary.

And look what it has done for us: a recruitment tool for al-Qaeda has been created; we've been unable to finish the job in Afghanistan; we have more that 2500 dead American soldiers; we have spent billions of dollars; our military is stretched too thin; we are weakened as we attempt to deal with real threats in North Korea and Iran; our moral standing has been disastrously damaged by Abu Ghraib, Hadditha, and Guantanamo Bay; our constitutional liberties have been threatened by the NSA domestic spying and the monitoring of international money transactions- without warrants; our economy is suffering from high gas prices brought on, in part, by concerns over oil market stability. And, we're no safer now than we were before the invasion.

How can any member of Bush's team live with himself/herself after the damage they have done?

GP