A Miserable Intelligence Failure

Bush Declines to Back Call for Iraq Probe

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) said Friday "I want to know the facts" about any intelligence failures concerning Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s alleged cache of forbidden weapons but he declined to endorse calls for an independent investigation.

So, if our inability to find Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq is due to shoddy work on the part of American and foreign intelligence agencies, like the administration says, then why isn't Bush serious about correcting the problem? Maybe because it wasn't really the fault of the CIA, but rather a White House too eager to sell a war the public would not have backed otherwise. Then again, maybe I am just playing election year "gotcha", its not lik accountibility is a crucial component of a working democracy or sound policy making.