Reply #117: I should make a few things clear...

[MrScorpio]

None of the information that I had had anything to do with criminal torture by troops, or any other crimes per se.

None of the "juicy" stuff that all of us love to harp on around here, I had no access to it..

I found out about those crimes just like everyone else... In the press.

I started my duty in the Intel Squadron during Clinton's last term. At the time we were responsible for patrolling the Iraqi No Fly zones with (unarmed) Predator drones, looking for activity by the Iraqis that violated the UN sanctions that were in effect at the time. The USAF pretty much destroyed unauthorized anti-aircraft radar sites and just observed the goings on in those areas. It was not our responsibility to find (or create phony) evidence of WMDs.

If you remember around that time, the stuff that was going on in Iraq was pretty much out of the news, as they were properly classified as NOT A THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES.

That changed once Bush came into office, as we all know. In spite of the crap that they had created as "proof", we were kept out of the loop.

As I mentioned before, all the information that anyone needed to prove that the Bushies were lying was already in the news.

No information that I had custody of would have made one bit of difference in stopping the attack on Iraq. Not ONE IOTA. I had no access to those sensitive compartments, only that information that pertained to USAF operations.

The Bushies were hell bent on war, and no one short of Congress, could have stopped them... And this, in spite of quite a few voices in Congress who spoke out against the war with the facts. We all saw how that worked out.

They didn't need me to get the truth out... They already had it.

The point being is that any of you who feel that you have to blame me for doing my duty and that duty culminated in Bush and Cheney's illegal war, have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

The war was going to happen and I didn't have the power to stop it.