Bush Disowns U.S. Intel, Tells Israelis Iran NIE ‘Doesn’t Reflect My Own Views’

[babylonsister]

What a doofus; so the hard nat'l intelligence doesn't trump his own views? :eyes:


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/13/bush-israelis-nie/

Bush Disowns U.S. Intel, Tells Israelis Iran NIE ‘Doesn’t Reflect My Own Views’

olmertAfter the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran was released, Israel publicly challenged the U.S. intelligence consensus that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program. “In our opinion,” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, Iran “has apparently continued that program.”

Just days after the NIE was released, Bush quickly announced he would make the first visit to Israel of his presidency to mend differences over Iran.

In private meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this week, Newsweek reports that President Bush disowned the U.S. intelligence community’s judgments:

But in private conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week, the president all but disowned the document, said a senior administration official who accompanied Bush on his six-nation trip to the Mideast. “He told the Israelis that he can’t control what the intelligence community says, but that {the NIE’s} conclusions don’t reflect his own views” about Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, said the official, who would discuss intelligence matters only on the condition of anonymity.

Bush had reportedly briefed Olmert about the Iran NIE days before it was publicly released in late November. The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh said, “The Israelis were very upset about the report. They think we’re naive, they don’t think we get it right. And so they have a different point of view.”

But after his private meetings with Bush this week, Olmert — asked whether he felt reassured — replied, “I am very happy.”

UPDATE: Speaking in the United Arab Emirates, Bush said the United States and Arab allies must join together to confront the danger of Iran “before it’s too late.”

[kurth]

1. His own views are the real truth

His virtual reality. What a goddamned retard.

[lovuian]

2. And he is Commander in Chief in charge

I think a incident in the Strait of Hormuz has been planned
who needs WMD

just put a navy ship in harms way
and then Declare War

Bush wants America in turmoil when he leaves so he can sneak off unnoticed for his crimes

[L0oniX]

5. Iranian water skiers with WMDs ...ooooh I am scared now.

Does anyone really believe anything this fuck wad asscarrot George Bush has to say?

[marylanddem]

3. his own meglomaniacal views...

[annabanana]

4. And his "opinion" trumps intelligence. . . . every time, unfortunately.. . . n/t

[malaise]

6. Bush taking intelligence seriously

Are you fugging crazy? The only use Bush and his fringe Xtian loonies have for the word intelligence is a complete distortion of its meaning in their fictitious intelligent design.


Anyone who buys that shit has zero use for anything intelligent.

By the way Fuck Bush!

[jaksavage]

7. God gave him inside info

Little voices in my head
tell me we could be all dead
unless we kill all those who don't agree.

[ladjf]

8. Naturally, Bush , with is infinite wisdom would know more about

the nuclear situation in Iran that all of our intelligence agencies. We obviously have no need for intelligence gathering. Bush's intuition is intelligence enough. Maybe God is giving him the inside info about Iran.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. His "view" is blocked by the blinders of well bred stupidity.

[JBoy]

10. This is a perfect example of how gutless the media has become

They report Bush's remark matter-of-factly by regurgitating what he said, but in the good old days of the media the story would have been "holy shit, the president is fucking nuts thinking that he knows more than his own intelligence community!"

A depressing state of affairs.

[kineneb]

11. Georgie, stop listening to your intestines. They are full of shit!

...The guy who thinks with his gut spends too much time on the toilet.