The Tenets of War

White House dismisses Tenet's criticism (AP)

AP - A senior White House counselor on Friday dismissed former CIA Director's George Tenet portrait of a Bush administration that rushed to war in Iraq without serious debate. "The president did wrestle with those very serious questions," Dan Bartlett said.

***No matter what the White House say, it is perception that really counts.  Everything in America is business.  Everything in the world is business.  In business, it is image, not intentions.  We don't talk about theories and philosophies anymore.  We look to the facts and the horrid deaths lined in the streets of Baghdad, American blood, so far away from home, dying in a war that does not concern them.  In business, it is image.  Image is reality.  That's how Americans and the whole world view the Bush Administration's take on Iraq.  You cannot sway it by words or politics.  It is how people feel.