Declassification of Iraq Report
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It looks like Bush is going to declassify the report that the Democrats are using to claim that invading Iraq was a bad idea.
The White House contends that the document’s widely reported conclusion — that the Iraq war has increased the threat from terrorism — represents only “a fraction” of the judgments made in the document. The report, completed in April, reflects the consensus view of 16 government intelligence services.
Bush charged at the news conference that political opponents leaked select parts of the National Intelligence Estimate to media organizations last weekend “to create confusion in the minds of the American people” in the weeks before the Nov. 7 mid-term elections.
While it’s too bad that the Democrats have forced the government to partially undermine it’s security (after all, documents are classified for a reason, you can’t just go around declassifying them just because the left wing media and the Democrats are hoping there’s bad stuff about Bush in there), it’s good that we’ll finally be able to see the truth. We all know that the lies in the media about invading Iraq increasing terrorism aren’t true. Invading Iraq shows the terrorists that we mean business.
Now with the full report released, at least the media will have to apologize for their negative claims. But do you think they will? Of course not, they’ll just ignore it and pretend it never happened.
Bush agrees with my thoughts about declassifying documents for no good reason:
“Somebody has taken it upon themselves to leak classified information for political purposes,” Bush said. “I think it’s a bad habit for our government to declassify every time there is a leak.”
There should be more serious consequences for leaking classified information. What better way is there to strengthen terrorists than to give out classified information that they shouldn’t have? Classified information is classified because revealing it will damage our security. You can’t just go declassifying stuff right and left just because the Democrats want to see it.
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