Former Bush head spook makes a headsman's apology

[thatcrazycajun]

So now former CIA Director George Tenet is making the chat-show rounds and flogging his new book, in which he reveals the deception, mismanagement and ideological single-mindedness behind our invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq—which he personally and contemporaneously witnessed. Gee, Mr. Tenet, that's awfully white of you. Now why couldn't you have done this four years ago, when it might have done some good? If you knew all this back then and were too damned chicken-shit gutless to speak out about it at that time, every single death of a U.S. soldier, sailor, airman or Marine in this quagmire that has occurred since is blood on your hands. Your hands, sir. In the immortal words of Daffy Duck, "Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin!"

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." —Edmund Burke

ADDENDUM, 30 April, 2:22 pm: debgeisler points us to a news item reporting that six former CIA officials have written an open letter to Tenet demanding that he (a) return the Presidential Medal of Freedom he was awarded for his conduct in re pre-9/11 intelligence, and that (b) he donate "a significant portion" of his book's royalties to families of U.S. service members killed or wounded in the war he could have helped to prevent, but for his pusillanimous, contemptible cowardice in not telling the taxpayers what he knew when he should have done so, back then. A-friggin'-men, sister. Not that I hold out much hope he'll do either...but one may pray for whatever shred of conscience he has left to shame him into doing so.

Comments

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Not "Bush head spook". He was Clinton's man; Bush left him in office as a gesture of bipartisanship, expecting him to serve as a professional rather than a partisan.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Who first hired him is beside the point; he still served during Bush's first term and was a witness to all that transpired. If he HAD served as a professional rather than a partisan, ass-covering coward, we might not have more soldiers dead in Iraq than people who died on 9/11 today.