Molt Be Blog

     I can't stop commenting on this Rice testimony thing. It's an addiction to the news and I'll be the first to admit it. I still can't get over that CNN called her testimony "tough." It wasn't tough. It was boisterous, disrespectful, deceitful, blameful of others and all done with a shit-eating grin on her face. Headlines said that she defended the administration well, but what I don't get is why they're so defensive. The commission is just asking them to say what they knew and didn't know before 9-11 and what they can do now to make it less likely that this will happen again. Instead of getting the information they want, they get rhetoric and excuses; canned words spoon-fed by the Bush administration to "defend" themselves. This shouldn't be a partisan matter. It should be an inquiry. No one should be in opposition of or defending anything. Call me a pacifist.

     What they hell are they defending, anyway? What did they do that needs defending? If they screwed up, they could always just say that they screwed up and that they weren't prepared and that neither they nor any other administration could have been prepared. I'd accept that. It's probably true. But instead, they try to come off as though they were perfectly right in what they did and that nothing could have stopped 9-11. What total bullshit. I know that the communication between agencies was bad and that people lower down who knew a bit more weren't listened to, but why can't they just admit this stuff? Baffling.