All Duh News...

Today's news brings almost nothing that was not already apparent to anyone with half a brain. Among the "revelations" that would bring a response of "Duh, really" are: that the Bush administration cherry picked intelligence info to justify a rush to war with Iraq. Paul Pillar, aformer CIA official for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, writes in the Foreign Affairs journal that the White House used the intelligence to justify a decision it had already reached. Really, I'm shocked! We also find out that Michael "Heck of a job" Brown contacted Bush officials at his ranch a day earlier than previously revealed and they did nothing. "Brown testified Friday that he notified top White House and Homeland Security officials on the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore that "we were realizing our worst nightmare" and that New Orleans was seriously flooding. He dismissed as "just baloney" and "a little disingenuous" claims by agency officials that they didn't know about the severity of the damage until the next day." Once again I'm shocked that an administration tempered by the quick actions of a "leader" that reads a childrens book for seven minutes AFTER his country has been attacked, would stay on vacation for another day and ignore a Democratic city that was being flooded and whose people were dying. Finally, we learn that Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, "Scooter" Libby testified that his "superiors" authorized him to leak classified information to reporters. Gee, I wonder who that superior was? It certainly would be out of character for Cheney to violate the law to attack an innocent person for base political reasons. Come on, media, please give us some "news" !