The President doesn't have time to listen to stuff he doesn't agree with

U.S. Insiders Say Iraq Intel Deliberately Skewed
A key target is a four-person Pentagon team that reviewed material gathered by other intelligence outfits for any missed bits that might have tied Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to banned weapons or terrorist groups.

This team, self-mockingly called the Cabal, "cherry-picked the intelligence stream" in a bid to portray Iraq as an imminent threat, said Patrick Lang, a former head of worldwide human intelligence gathering for the Defense Intelligence Agency, which coordinates military intelligence.

The DIA was "exploited and abused and bypassed in the process of making the case for war in Iraq based on the presence of WMD," or weapons of mass destruction, he added in a phone interview. He said the CIA had "no guts at all" to resist the allegedly deliberate skewing of intelligence by a Pentagon that he said was now dominating U.S. foreign policy.

I can't even make a comment about this. The books were cooked to make the case. By the "Cabal". Oh, my aching head.

Did Rumsfeld know about this? Did the President know about this? More importantly, does anyone care?

We impeached and nearly convicted a president over lying about sex. Are we going to do anything at all about an administration that lied to get us to go to war? Probably not. We don't want to get into cognitive dissonance here. We can believe someone lies about sex. We simply cannot believe that a president would lie about war.

I'm going back to bed. This morning's news is just too depressing.