UPDATE: Congress's Secret Saddam Tapes...uh oh. Ready or not lets all answer the question of who lost Saddams WMD's? Starting to look like it was our Intelligence agencies who tried to make President Bush look bad. He does look bad no matter what since it was his job to fix the Intelligence agencies if they were broken. Not to give medals to department heads who were on watch during the worst attack on the US. Yea I am hard on President Bush so he will get better...why are you easy on President Bush?

Its an article of faith amongst many of the Faithful that President Bush would love to prove that the WMD's did exist. To many of the Faithful it is merely Democratic shenanigans to believe that President Bush would not at this point want to prove that the weapons were moved to Syria or Iran. Apparently asking the next question isn't a real big pastime for many. Like how did we allow them to be moved if it was so important to stop the transfer of said weapons to the nefarious. One of the main reasons we went to war was to stop such transfers so wouldn't it follow that failing to stop such a transfer would be a fairly significant failure on our part?

The Democrats for their part are absolutely amazing in their ability to get everything wrong. Being motivated by blind hatred of President Bush instead of a irrational love for their country they cannot see the gift that has been dropped into their laps. How much better would their arguments sound to middle America were they to switch from saying "Bush lied People died" to President Bush was not aggressive enough and allowed the weapons to be dispersed, possibly into terrorist hands. (Remember thwarted Chemical attack Jordon) They would almost sound like adults. Good thing they can be counted on to continue this suicidal course they have chosen into irrelevency.

To President Bush's defense it must be said that the CIA is a rogue elephant whose flanks are being defended by politicians with a stake in the CIA's point of view and other intelligence agencies who bought into the CIA's theory of terrorism. That theory being that terrorism is not state sponsored and is instead the result of disparate actors planning acts in caves around the world. Bomb the caves!

We may never understand all of the reasons why the CIA's bureacracy went to war against President Bush and not the Al Qaeda but we can surmise that they must have felt threatened. And well they should have given their failures. To understand how hard it is to control bureacracies the size of the CIA and FBI one need only read this facinating account by Edward Epstein of President Nixon's attempts to gain control of them. Attacking the CIA and failing was a very dangerous pastime for the civilian politicians we elect to control such beasts.

It has to be said that there are many fine agents inside of the CIA doing some of the most dangerous work in the world. That said it also is undeniable that the CIA went to war against President Bush almost directly after 9/11. It was most obvious during the election but could always be seen during discussions in the press when un named sources would always pop up to discredit anything a member of the Administration would say. Anytime anyone from the administration would offer the theory of Saddam having a collaborative relationship with Al Qaeda, un named sources would pop up to ridicule such notions. Even sources outside of the administration were attacked, Laurie Mylroie was absolutely savaged by the rumors so diligently placed in the right hands of the press.

So it was particularly ironic that the Administration put the CIA in charge of finding the weapons it had already lost once. We can hope that the Administration was not surprised when the weapons did not turn up. Furthermore who can be surprised that the Iraq Survey Group did not find any evidence of a relationship between Saddam and Al Qaeda? Only those who believe that Government Bureacracies admit error often. And yes I understand that it was not the ISG's primary responsibility to find such links but they felt the need to comment about it and I feel the need to point such comments out.

So the weapons were likely lost by a combination of our telegraphing our punch and rogue intelligence agencies who seemingly cannot be brought to heal by any adminstration no matter how justified. In either case the weapons, one of the primary reasons for going to war, were lost prior to our getting there or worse are still there and not found because of the towering incompetence of the CIA. Exactly which of those scenarios would you like to admit to if you are the President?

It is good that we have Patriots in the House of Representatives. Rep. Peter Hoekstra has some questions for the Administration and our intelligence agencies. One of my questions would be exactly how are we to regain control of our intelligence agencies?

Today the Captain is highlighting Rep. Hoekstra's inquiries. We can hope that several important witnesses testify to the House such as Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon who served as head of Israel's Armed Services from July 2002 to June 2005, when he retired and Former Iraqi General Sada who has written a book about Saddam.

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