Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Pre-emption for everyone!
President George W. Bush said on Monday his administration would maintain its policy of pre-empting potential security threats despite growing doubts over the adequacy of US intelligence to assess such dangers.
In a speech at the Oak Ridge nuclear facility in Tennessee, Mr Bush made clear he would not rethink the approach after Friday's damning report by the Senate intelligence committee. The report concluded that the Central Intelligence Agency made serious errors in asserting that Saddam Hussein's Iraq possessed or was developing weapons of mass destruction.
While acknowledging that the report "has identified some shortcomings in our intelligence capabilities", he said that would not cause him to reconsider the approach that led the US to invade Iraq.
"America must remember the lessons of September the 11th," Mr Bush said. "We must confront serious dangers before they fully materialize."
Story. For some reason, I just get this picture in my mind of a blindfolded boy wildly swinging a heavy stick at a fuzzy WMD-esque pinata as all his friends look on and sadly shake their heads.
posted by chris at 12:54 PM
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