Just when you think that politics in the US can't get any more screwed up, the genius in the Oval office has found a way to make all of us feel pretty simple minded. Who needs to worry about Kim Il Jong providing nuclear secrets and technology to Iran when our own White House is doing it?
The Bush Administration finally pulled websites that contained material and information seized from Iraq. The information detailed information gathered by Iraq about nuclear technology and missile technology.
Here's where it gets crazy
You see the Republicans in Congress were complaining that the Bush White House was not declassifying material fast enough, and this led to the perception that the Iraqi War was launched on bad intelligence. Republicans hoped that documents seized in Iraq might prove that the fears that launched the war might be justified somewhere in the stacks of documents, but they were too lazy to read the documents themselves and so was the White House.
Brilliance in Action
So they decided that this work should be outsourced! What's more American than passing the buck on a tedious job? (I say this with a lot of sarcasm, because there are too many lazy people in this country and sometimes things are outsourced for the wrong reasons.)
The Bush Team declassified the documents and put them online where anyone coudl read them.
Stop the Presses
Well it looks like there was some sensitive information in there and non-proliferation experts from around the world started baging drums and sticks and anything that would make noise asking the administration to secret those documents away before . . .
Iran figured out how to make a nuclear bomb or something. This is a great example of how incompetence can lose a war. The Republicans made a big show about Kerry's goof up in his speech the other day. They needed something to raise a stink about, but this is giving away nuclear technology and declassifying sensistive information. Those are treasonable offenses!
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