Eye on Winer

I’m not sure I follow the ‘logic’ of this post:

Bush and Cheney knew what was going to be in the NIE for months. That’s not a stretch. It’s completely unbelievable that they didn’t ask or weren’t told what was coming.

Alright, so another barely coherent political rant is incoming… let’s see what we’ve got:

Hoping to rush us to war. Then the NIE would come out and they’d say that no one knew that there was no nuclear program in Iran.

The only question is why they didn’t start the bombing.

Could it be that they gave the order and the military didn’t do it?

Okay, so ignoring the typical tactic of political argumentation: assume a premise that suits your case, assume that’s the only possibility, and then progress to your soapbox — we have this: the heads of the military ignored an order from the President because they didn’t feel like doing it.

Uh, what?

Oh, sure, if you’re a civilian this could work. Your boss tells you to do something and you don’t like it, so you decide to just ignore it. Happens all the time. Consequences range from nothing to losing your job (one that you probably didn’t like anyway). But we’re not talking about Userland, here, we’re talking about the military. Things aren’t quite so simple there. It’s, quite literally, against the law to not follow orders, and Dave wants us to believe that the President gave an order, a whole bunch of people chose not to follow it, and both (a) there were no consequences, and (b) we haven’t heard about it yet?

I mean, even if we start from Dave’s cherry-picked premise, the most likely reasoning is probably that getting congress to sanction the bombing would save his increasingly unpopular administration some headache when the NIE came out.

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