Lance,
It's easy to point the finger afterwards, you will always find a failure in the intelligence or some other agency if you look hard enough.
but is this kind of finger pointing smart? no.
Reminds me of the soviet union way to deal with problem - find a good black sheep candidate, point it out to the people and deal with it.
Even if the black sheep didn't have anything to do with the problem, but the people thinks otherwise (as if they're given a choice to believe otherwise?)
Same goes on in the Bush administration, now that the WMD hasn't been found as so far.. suddenly it is the other people whos guilty, but Bush himself only acted accordingly to the intelligence given to him (poor mislead president.. yeah right...
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It's hilarious they made up a false story for jessica lynch, almost like they would have seen 'wag the dog' and done alike