Presidential security advisor Steven Hadley declines to call Iraq “apocalypse”
Washington, DC (Rotters) – Presidential security adviser Stephen Hadley yesterday, in a news conference at the White House, steadfastly maintained that the Bush administration was correct in its insistence that the conflict in Iraq cannot be referred to as a civil war. Answering questions from reporters, Hadley stated that the recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq was far rosier than some of its misleading language would have some reporters believe. He insisted that the White House had taken great care to have the document reflect what the president believes is the true situation and that it was being interpreted incorrectly by the press.
In response to direct questions from reporters in regards to the White House’s refusal to use the term “civil war”, Hadley insisted that while that term might have been appropriate at some point in the past, the conflict was now far more complicated than just a civil war. He stated that the White House was determined at this point to merely give facts to the public and not labels.
A reporter then followed up with a question asking Hadley bluntly if the term “Apocalypse” might be more appropriate.
“No, no, that is not what the NIE says,” Hadley responded. “You ought to be very clear about that. Certainly, much of the chaos and destruction in Iraq might resemble an apocalypse, but what point does it serve to mistakenly label it this way, bringing a Christian term into the middle of an Islamic tinderbox? It does a disservice to our men and women in uniform and emboldens the enemy. If we leave Iraq before the job is done… and we won’t… the world will be facing Armageddon. Theoretically, if anyone is around to still debate the topic, perhaps at that point they might be justified in describing the current situation in Iraq as fitting the criteria for “apocalyptic”.
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It does take a twisted mind to come up with this. To what do you attribute
this humorous twist in your mental fabric & where can I get some.
in my sunday edition of the End Times, it said much the same.And the classifieds had tons of ads for horsemen, so it looks like the economy is picking up, too.
Enjoyed the graphics.
Hadley is one of those powers-behind-the-throne who has largely escaped attention. This is not the first time he’s been called to brief the press about an NIE and whether WMD was in Iraq.
In July 2003 he took the fall for not having those sixteen words eliminated from the president’s 1/2003 SOTU. He knew from two October memos and a phone conversation with Tenet that the CIA “had reservations” about the British intelligence.
In November 2005 a bristling Hadley insisted that Bush had relied in good faith on intelligence that Iraq had WMD.