Pollywogs!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,462782,00.html

 Drumheller: I had assured my German friends that it wouldn’t be in the speech. I really thought that I had put it to bed. I had warned the CIA deputy John McLaughlin that this case could be fabricated. The night before the speech, then CIA director George Tenet called me at home. I said: “Hey Boss, be careful with that German report. It’s supposed to be taken out. There are a lot of problems with that.” He said: “Yeah, yeah. Right. Dont worry about that.”

SPIEGEL: But it turned out to be the centerpiece in Powell’s presentation — and nobody had told him about the doubts.

Drumheller: I turned on the TV in my office, and there it was. So the first thing I thought, having worked in the government all my life, was that we probably gave Powell the wrong speech. We checked our files and found out that they had just ignored it.

SPIEGEL: So the White House just ignored the fact that the whole story might have been untrue?

Drumheller: The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy. Right before the war, I said to a very senior CIA officer: “You guys must have something else,” because you always think it’s the CIA. “There is some secret thing I don`t know.” He said: “No. But when we get to Baghdad, we are going to find warehouses full of stuff. Nobody is going to remember all of this.”

Yep.  The policy was set by the PNAC, the decision was made before 9/11, all we needed were a couple excuses, a couple pieces of ‘intelligence’ (like Obama being a Muslim extremist, intelligence like THAT), and a media and public which was still willing to cradle the administrations ballsack.  Well, not all of us, but some were very willing to believe whatever torrent of steaming shit was spewing out of the hell hole the White House has become during the Bush administration…