Griper Blade: Dick the Pigeon

You'd think that the mistakes that brought us to where we are with Iraq would've come with some lessons. Leave it to analysts to separate the BS from the truth might be a big one. As I wrote yesterday, the reasons we're in Iraq have a lot to do with a hoax pulled by the Iraqi National Congress that the administration fell for. And they fell for it because they wanted to believe it. They had a woody for war with Iraq.

So, what happened was something called 'stovepiping'. This was the practice of sending what seemed to be the most damning information straight to Vice President Dick's office -- raw and unanalyzed. VP Dick and his staff would then cherry pick this data and come to the conclusions that VP Dick and his staff wanted to come to. So we wound up with the false claims about yellowcake in Niger and the belief that coalition forces would be 'greeted as liberators.' The raw data was being analyzed by people who a) didn't know what the hell they were doing and b) already had a conclusion in mind.

Now, instead of learning from those mistakes, Shooter's doing exactly the same thing with Iran's nuclear program...

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