NIEs: Waste of Time?

NIEs: Waste of Time?

by Cindy Sheehan
December 6th, 2007

BushCo and the Fox “News” generation have a long
history of ignoring National Intelligence Estimates
(NIE). I would say that they ignore the NIEs at their
own peril, but BushCo has suffered nothing for its
denial of truth and exploitation of fear. As a matter
of fact, BushCo’s quest to be the global hegemon has
proceeded without any kind of check. Fox “News” seems
to be thriving and the leader of that Empire, Rupert
Murdoch is able to usurp more media outlets in his
quest for unchallenged propaganda power as the ad hoc
Minister of Dis-Information.

Literally millions of people have suffered horribly
for BushCo’s crimes, and that’s just in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Here in our own country (Love it or Leave
it) bulldozers are demolishing low income housing in
the Gulf States that were harmed due to the very
callous incompetence of the Federal Government and to
for immoral profit privatization of everything, even
education. There has always been a war on poor people
in this country, but Hurricane Katrina and its
aftermath only highlighted how deeply racist our
Nation and its policies really still are. The Every
Child Left Behind Act has been designed to transform
our children into a generation of cannon fodder and is
just another example of how everything George touches
turns to rancidi garbage. Our country hovers near the
bottom of the global education barrel and is another
example of how we are allowing BushCo to make an
international laughingstock out of we here in the US.

On August 6th, 2001, exactly 36 days before 9-11,
George was handed an NIE that was actually titled:
“Bin Laden determined to strike in the US.”

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