"Outrageous and Dishonest"

Among the man tawdry episodes involved in the selling of the Iraq War, the tawdriest was the one that came at the very end. After all the months of debate, lies, hype, more debate, handwringing, warmongering, exaggerations, etc. we came to the moment when IAEA inspectors were back on the ground in Iraq looking into Saddam's nuclear program. They said there was no nuclear program. They were roundly ignored -- the statement simply got no purchase in mainstream media or political circles. The war was on. Months later, everyone was scratching their heads wondering where the WMD were. Years later, people are still debating how the facts were gotten so wrong. The fact remains, though, that before the war, the IAEA was in the country saying the Bush administration was full of shit. I bring this all up as prelude to Dafna Linzer's Washington Post article on the IAEA and Iran:

U.N. inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear program angrily complained to the Bush administration and to a Republican congressman yesterday about a recent House committee report on Iran's capabilities, calling parts of the document "outrageous and dishonest" and offering evidence to refute its central claims.

Think about that for a while. And also think about the quality -- intellectual and moral -- of the men and women who would look at the past several years of American and world history and decide that an outrageous and dishonest report on Iranian nuclear capacities was exactly the sort of thing the US congress should spend its time working on. Simply put, there's a miasma of insanity, dishonesty, and hubris floating around the circles they operate in that makes them grossly unfit to govern.

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Our "leaders" are as crooked as their Russian counterparts. It's as simple and doleful as that. They're gangsters.

Posted by: Jeffrey Davis on September 14, 2006 10:39 AM

Dr. M: Knowing well as you do the madness, insanity, dishonesty and horror of our entrapment in this ongoing circle of hell without end, what gives you the psychic, emotional, and intellectual reslilience to look in on this hell so closely day after day? The capacity to endure this sickness and woe is simply innate? (Am trying hard to escape into blissful ignorance and have only failed miserably so far as result of obsessively keeeping up. Genetic shortcoming.)

Posted by: William on September 14, 2006 10:51 AM

Uh, that's not what the "US Congress is working on;" that's what a couple of (a lot of?) wingnut Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are working on. I doubt if the Democrats on the Committee even saw the report before it was released.

Posted by: Donald A. Coffin on September 14, 2006 12:20 PM

This should be front page, headline news, across the United States. "Outrageous and Dishonest" -- How can that possibly NOT be headline news?

We've seen headline after headline on the dangers of Iran's nuclear program. Where are the headlines on this?

Hey ABC, you want a mini-series? It's called "The Path to War; Deja Vu All Over Again". Its playing now. Are you going to show it?

Posted by: Steve on September 14, 2006 12:53 PM

Things that come out of the House are almost always of a lower intellectual quality than things that come out of the Senate, and the Senate doesn't always exactly shine. It's amazing that any journalist who's been around for any length of time would take a House Committee report as authoritative.

Posted by: william on September 14, 2006 01:26 PM

You left out the part Kevin Drum saw:the news story aout the Committee report was on page A1 when it came out;the IAEA story was on page A17.
The Democrackeds on the Committee voted for its release.This Congress needs to go.I don't care who the incumbent is,vote them all out.Vote them out now. (sorry,I had a DeLong moment there)

Posted by: TJM on September 14, 2006 02:00 PM

Will this be an issue in sending those bullshit merchants back to the House? Will it hell. After all, they're busily campaigning on how much Mexican immigrant ass they're prepared to kick. Although saying you'll nuke those Eye-rain-yans is obviously going to help, since levelling Isfahan doesn't matter to the good people of Bumfuck.

Things that come out of the House are almost always of a lower intellectual quality than things that come out of the Senate

I think you mean 'things that sit in the House'. Truly, the dumbest MPs in Westminster and Ottawa come across an intellectual match for some of the House's smartest people. That's what gerrymandered districts get you: rotten boroughs and rotten representatives. From both parties.

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