Comments on: Cultists Reject Outside Information http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/12/04/cultists-reject-outside-information/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:33:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Wilbur http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/12/04/cultists-reject-outside-information/#comment-59068 Wilbur Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:45:24 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=4602#comment-59068 <i>"Bush vs Intelligence".</i> That sort of sums the whole Bush presidency, doesn't it? “Bush vs Intelligence”.

That sort of sums the whole Bush presidency, doesn’t it?

]]> By: Sean D. Martin http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/12/04/cultists-reject-outside-information/#comment-59067 Sean D. Martin Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:23:31 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=4602#comment-59067 Norman Podhoretz: "<i><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/podhoretz/1474" rel="nofollow">In other words, a full two years after Iran supposedly called a halt to its nuclear program, the intelligence community was still as sure as it ever is about anything that Iran was determined to build a nuclear arsenal. Why then should we believe it when it now tells us, and with the same “high confidence,” that Iran had already called a halt to its nuclear-weapons program in 2003?</a></i>" Sooo... we can't believe the NIE now, because it differs from what it said before. But we should still believe what it said before, even though it differs from what it says now. I like the description someone made of this whole thing as "Bush vs Intelligence". Norman Podhoretz: “In other words, a full two years after Iran supposedly called a halt to its nuclear program, the intelligence community was still as sure as it ever is about anything that Iran was determined to build a nuclear arsenal. Why then should we believe it when it now tells us, and with the same “high confidence,” that Iran had already called a halt to its nuclear-weapons program in 2003?”

Sooo… we can’t believe the NIE now, because it differs from what it said before. But we should still believe what it said before, even though it differs from what it says now.

I like the description someone made of this whole thing as “Bush vs Intelligence”.

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