The White House wants it’s wingnut supporters to stop complaining about the NIE. (cough) The intelligence people have worked very hard on this report, and we need to accept their findings. ALL their findings (wink wink wink, kicking under the table, hand making throat cutting gestures, maniacally).
After all, Condi Rice just gave an interview where she said this:
Rice brushed aside suggestions from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the findings could open better relations with the United States, insisting that Iran must account for its past atomic weapons activities.
“Since they have embraced the NIE, I assume that they are embracing the entire thing,” Rice said. “And that means that they must have had a weapons program and that means that they have a lot to answer for.”
Yes, we must accept the NIE….the ENTIRE NIE….accept it….yes….Iran had a weapons program…they must account for that….that’s what the NIE says….we accept this….yes….
Unfortunately for Bush/Cheney/Rice, the wingnuts and neocons have been on autopilot faux outrage and hysteria mode, dutifully throwing that damned NIE and everyone associated with it under the bus. But this will totally make it difficult to twist the language later on. If the wingnut crowd doesn’t put a sock in it soon, there will be no hope of finessing this war argument. They must shut up.
Ha ha ha!! Good luck with that! The Republicans create Frankenstein monsters, and then they can’t control them.
