Fix the problem

I can't help but wonder of a lack of basic logic skills is a requirement to be a talk show host.

To point I have heard the assertion made repeatedly that Democratic Senators saw the saem intelligence that the White House did. Therefore if the conclussions were wrong, the Democrats are equally as guilty of mistakenly believing that Iraq was a threat.

The problem is not whether the White House correctly analysed the intelligence. The question at hand is whether it ordered the CIA to supress evidence/analysis that Iraq's WMD program was not a threat and to exagerate evidence/analysis that the program was a danger.

Another oft stated point is in we are in Iraq and whether the President lied is irrelevent because we can't pullout. While I am sure many people feel we should pullout and many of those feel we should because the president lied the 2 statements are not logically linked that way.

The real issue is whether this is part of a pattern. If the president did lie and it is representative of how he approaches his job (which I believe it is) it brings up the question of whether he is the right person to make decisions or implement them.