After months of speculation, prompted by major intelligence failures at the CIA on such issues as Iraq's WMD (or as it turned out, lack thereof) and the understimation of OBL and Al Queda, CIA Chief George Tenet resigned this week. In his resignation statement, he said that he was resigning, "Only for personal reasons", in the middle of this, an election year.
Apparently, the people involved in arranging how this embarrassment to the White House was going to be handled think that a certain segment of the American population will believe that. "Why not?" they figure, "Heck, many of these undecideds believed that those soldiers were solely responsible for what happened at Abu Grahib, and that noone higher up had anything to do with it. They also bought the idea that a $1.7 trillion tax cut for the rich would help balance the budget. Why wouldn't they believe that also?" I understand their reasoning. It does appear that this group of "undecided" idiots will believe anything that they are told at this point.
But I believe that this particular statement, by George Tenet, coming in the context in which it did, crosses over a new threshhold in their estimate of just how stupid the undecideds are. The administration has apparently downgraded these people from retarded to downright labodomized. (Yeah, I know, you're thinking "What an arrogant and elitist thing to say". At some point, you do have to call a spade a spade. Would you refrain from calling Adolf Hitler a "bad guy" so as not to appear morally righteous?) And these are the people who will decide the future of this nation and the world. Fascinating.
By the way, the SECOND guy in command at the CIA, whose name escapes me at the moment, ALSO resigned for "only personal reasons" this week.
I guess these two fellows must have each ran into enormous personal problems simultaneously, so that they both had to end decades long government careers within 24 hours of each other.