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I wouldn't be so dismissive - his tenure supposedly spanned five administrations (including that of King George I) and he developed a reputation in that time of being distinctly apolitical when it came to his recommendations. There was an interesting discussion about him and his history on NPR on Tuesday (I think it was on "The World", but it might've been one of the other programs). I think the guy is legit.

With regards to the timing, he has been waiting to release this book for some time but has supposedly been the victim of foot-dragging by the white house which needed to approve the text in order to determine any potential conflicts of national security interests (this is according to both he and his publisher). He obviously wants to sell his book and get publicity (I'll give you that one - duh), but I think the allegations of a larger consipracy theory just don't go anywhere or ultimately matter. Even if there is some sort of larger conspiracy to discredit the Bush administration, they brought it on themselves by giving him the ammunition necessary to do so.

They tried in vain to establish a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq (I REMEMBER these stories coming out personally just before the war started - do we all have such short memories?) and of course there is the "incontrivertable evidence" that Colin Powell's briefing mentioned in his address to the international community (which we later snubbed) and subsequently in press briefings. The same "incontrivertable evidence" that has mysteriously come to be untrue - gee, what a surprise! Hans Blix (remember him) made a statement about a week ago about this AGAIN, saying that he is fairly convinced that there never were WMDs in Iraq.

In the meantime, American soldiers continue to get their asses shot off in the name of lining the pockets of greedy U.S. oil and defense interests like Haliburton, with no valid agenda and no clear exit strategy STILL. If anybody with "two brain cells" as you put it can't figure out what's really going on here, then frankly they DESERVE the Bush administration.

At least you're right about your implication that Don Imus has two working brain cells!