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[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by sycamore

I wish the President would take more responsibility for his fuckups, rather than trying to hang it on others or fate.

Not a point to be missed, I would agree with you. But any president is only as good as those he surrounds himself with and those around him need to be subject matter experts in the areas they represent. If the DCI can't be a subject matter expert on all things dealing with intel than the whole system is fk'd. I think he failed to surround himself with the best experts. Most post-9/11 texts say that the bulk of intel estimates did not support the notion that 1) there were WMD and 2) that going into Iraq was a good idea. I wonder how things would have turned out if Clinton was successful in staging the overthrow of Iraq in the 90's. We had troops on the ground and everything in place. Everything was there to support the generals and the whole thing fell apart. Either way it would have beat sending in our Armies.