"Bush didn't mislead anyone about the war on Iraq."
"Which Bush crony said that?"
"Stephen Hadley, national security advisor."
"Do we have a national security advisor by the way?"
"Well, we have a National Security Council which is army controlled..."
"Only so long as President Musharraf wears two hats."
"Well, it will remain as long as he is in power but if a civilian comes in I would think it would die an ignominious death only to be revived when we have another general wanting to wear two hats."
"But do we have an advisor?"
"I guess the entire council is to advise the President."
"Or in other words the President will tell the council what he wants them to do."
"Well, I guess yes that's about right."
"But going back to Bush and the Iraq war what did Hadley say?"
"He said that Bush relied on the collective judgement of the intelligence community that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and it turned out that we were wrong."
"Boy, were they wrong!"
"But he argues that the same intelligence was in front of the Democrats and they voted for war as well."
"I think the allegations now are that Bush doctored the whole thing."
"Ah yes. That allegation has had at least one casualty."
"Who?"
"The British guy who worked for the Department of Defence and whose name was leaked to the Press by the Blairites and who then committed suicide."
"Ah, that's right but I can't imagine any die hard neo-conservative in the US committing suicide, can you?"
"Nope, I can't."
"Besides Hadley says allegations that Bush somehow manipulated intelligence are flat wrong."
"Bush doesn't have the brains to manipulate."
"So someone else did it..."
"Some one not very clever and so it's all come out to roost, so to say."
"Yes. You know Bush's administration sounds more and more like one from the third world."