Petition. (Thanks to alert reader Cracker).
Personally, I'd rather see an investigation that examines the Bush administration's complete politicization of intelligence (copy), of which the WMD flap and the 16 weasel words are only a small part.
I can't see any sense in what Bush is doing with intelligence. First, he announces a radical new doctrine of pre-emptive war. Second, he gets Cheney to browbeat the intelligence agencies into giving him whatever answers he wants, instead of doing any real analysis.
You'd think if Bush were going to pre-empt, he'd want to pre-empt at the right place and time. (The national security equivalent of hair trigger trouble, you know?) That's what the national intelligence agencies could help him with, if he he weren't busy browbeating them.
The only answer I can think of is that Bush, like the Lord High Executioner in Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado—see the video, appropriately named Topsy Turvy—has "got a little list." And Bush is going to go to war with everyone on that little list, for whatever reason he can find or make up. We surely saw that with Iraq. And the tactic sounds a lot like the Bush domestic policies, come to think about it.
So if MoveOn can drive the thin end of the wedge home—more power to them.
