Tweety PWNS Scarborough

After watching Joe Scarborough yell at Mika today it was great to see Tweety PWN him on his own show. Funny how Scarborough never yells at a man though. Tweety asked the question that I really wanted asked. The wingnuts, Scarborough included, seems to believe that the only way we can keep from being attacked by al Queda is to torture people, but they never acknowledge that the intelligence community TOLD President Bush BEFORE 9-11 that al Queda was trying to attack America. Richard Clarke damn near crusaded to try to get the Bush administration to take the threat seriously and to attack THEM preemptively. Yeah the intelligence community could have communicated better between themselves but the information was there, it just wasn't acted upon. And we didn't get that information from torture.

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Gotta sting to get your ass handed to you on your own show. And Tweety made Andy Card look like a buffoon.

Like Nostradamus

Over at FireDogLake emptywheel has a post up about the Bush Department of Justice's decision not to prosecute White House Chief of Staff Andy Card's cousin for acting as an agent of Iraq before we started the war. Now I kinda figured that this post was just another in a long line exposing the cronyism inherent with President Bush's administration. But as I usually do I ended up clicking through the links and I ended up reading the letter that Card's cousin, Susan Lindauer, wrote to Card and Secretary of State Colin Powell that got her in trouble in the first place. Emptywheel's post in and of itself is an interesting read and you should definitely check it out, but I think what Lindauer writes in the letter about the prospects of negotiating with Saddam to avoid the war as well as her predicitions about what would happen in the aftermath is a must read. I wish I could excerpt it here but its not set up in that kind of format as it was scanned into a pdf instead of being typed in. For that reason I am asking that you click the link and read her letter. I think you will thank emptywheel for providing this info if you hadn't already heard about it like I hadn't.