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ケリーが州兵にブッシュはイラクに関して嘘を付いていると演説
情報機関の報告ではイラクはますます「テロリスト」の手に落ちていて、深刻な状態なのに、ブッシュは情報操作の世界で空想に溺れているという批判である。
ブッシュの代わりに、副大統領のチェニーが反論しているようだが、この同じニューヨークタイムズが、情報機関の報告が無視された旨、昨日、報じたばかりである。以下のわが投稿には、この「悲観的」報告が、極秘（classified）にされているとある。つまり、隠していたのである。
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米情報機関機密情報でイラクの将来は悲観的とブッシュに報告
http://www.asyura2.com/0406/war59/msg/1406.html
投稿者 木村愛二 日時 2004 年 9 月 16 日 23:04:21:CjMHiEP28ibKM
ニューヨークタイムズの大見出しは、最近、毎日のように連続で、アメリカの政府には景気の悪い内情を伝えている。
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/politics/16intel.html?th
September 16, 2004
THE RECONSTRUCTION
U.S. Intelligence Shows Pessimism on Iraq's Future
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 - A classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush in late July spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq, government officials said Wednesday.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/17/politics/campaign/17kerry.html?th
September 17, 2004
In Address to Guard, Kerry Says Bush Isn't Telling Truth on Iraq
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
AS VEGAS, Sept. 16 - Senator John Kerry said at a National Guard conference on Thursday that President Bush was living in "a fantasy world of spin" and that the president had deceived them when he presented an optimistic picture of the war in Iraq at the same conference two days before.
"He failed to tell you the truth," Mr. Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, said to a crowd that greeted him with restrained applause. "You deserve better. The commander in chief has to level with the troops and the nation."
Citing an intelligence estimate prepared for Mr. Bush in late July that presents a bleak picture of prospects in Iraq, Mr. Kerry said the president was turning his back on his own intelligence and ignoring the reality that Iraq was increasingly in the hands of terrorists.
"He didn't tell you this," Mr. Kerry said, even though "his own intelligence officials have warned him for weeks that the mission in Iraq is in serious trouble.''
"That is the hard truth, as hard as it is to bear," he said, adding,
"I believe you deserve a president who isn't going to gild that truth, or gild our national security with politics, who is not going to ignore his own intelligence, who isn't going to live in a different world of spin, who will give the American people the truth, not a fantasy world of spin."
Mr. Kerry's comments were in sharp contrast to the optimistic outlook on Iraq that Mr. Bush has been presenting on the campaign trail.
"This country is headed toward democracy," Mr. Bush said at a Thursday morning campaign rally in St. Cloud, Minn., about five hours before Mr. Kerry made his remarks at the Guard conference. "There's a strong prime minister in place. They have a national council, and national elections are scheduled for January. It wasn't all that long ago that Saddam Hussein was in power with his torture chambers and mass graves."
The task of responding to Mr. Kerry fell to Vice President Dick Cheney, who struck back quickly, saying at a campaign rally in Reno, Nev., that while Mr. Kerry said "leadership starts with telling the truth," Americans "also know that true leadership requires the ability to make a decision."
Mr. Cheney added that "Senator Kerry today said he would always be straight with the American people on the good days and on the bad days.''
"In Senator Kerry's case," he said, "that means when the headlines are good he's for the war, and when his poll numbers are bad he's against it."
Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, sought to play down the difference between the president's public statements and the classified assessment prepared under George J. Tenet, who stepped down as director of central intelligence in July. "The role of the C.I.A. is to look at different scenarios," Mr. McClellan told reporters on Air Force One, adding that the intelligence estimate "really states the obvious in what the president has said many times."
The assessments in the intelligence estimate outlined three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, ranging from a worst case of civil war to a best case of tenuous stability. Mr. Kerry noted in his speech that the information had appeared in The New York Times, which first reported the assessments on Thursday. Aides to the senator said his last intelligence briefing from the Bush administration, given by tradition to the opposing party's presidential nominee, was more than three weeks ago.
Mr. Kerry used the contrast between the gloomy intelligence estimate and Mr. Bush's speech to the National Guard conference on Tuesday to charge the president with deception. In those remarks, Mr. Bush said, "Despite ongoing violence in Iraq, that country now has a strong prime minister, a national council, and national elections are scheduled in January. The world is changing for the better.''
Mr. Kerry's broadside against the president is part of a stepped-up response from the senator's campaign to assaults from Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney in a tightening race. On Thursday, polls released by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and Harris Interactive, based on nationwide telephone surveys conducted since late last week, showed the race nearly even among likely voters.
Mr. Kerry said nothing to the conference about Mr. Bush's service in the National Guard three decades ago, when he failed to report for some of his duty. The president's military record has become an explosive issue in the campaign, but Mr. Kerry has largely left the attacks to surrogates like former Senator Max Cleland of Georgia and Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
"It's just not something that gets you anywhere," said Michael D. McCurry, a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton and now a Kerry spokesman, who began traveling with the campaign on Thursday. "We sense that people are frustrated about the president's lack of clarity about what we're going to do in Iraq, not about service in Vietnam."
Guard officers attending the convention echoed that assessment. "What we've all talked about among ourselves is that what happened 30 years ago is not important," said Major Monica M. Cory of Des Moines.
The convention of more than 4,000 Guard officers responded far more coolly to Mr. Kerry than it had to Mr. Bush. The hall, which had been full on Tuesday, had scattered empty chairs on Thursday as Mr. Kerry arrived, and the group, which repeatedly interrupted the president's speech with standing ovations and hoots of approval, offered Mr. Kerry a polite but quieter reception.
At the point that Mr. Kerry said Mr. Bush had not told the convention the truth, a man shouted out "No!" As Mr. Kerry finished speaking, a few officers sat in their chairs, arms crossed. Col. Joanne F. Sheridan, of the Louisiana National Guard, got up and walked out before he was done.
"Mine was a silent protest to what he was saying," Colonel Sheridan said later. "What he was saying about George Bush not telling the truth on Iraq - I just don't believe that. George Bush did tell us the truth, so I guess I couldn't believe what Kerry was saying. Here, he came before a military audience, but he said what he said for the media, for the television cameras - not for us, that's for sure."
Other officers praised Mr. Kerry for saying he supported lowering the Guard retirement age to 55 and allowing guardsmen to have access to military medical coverage even when they are not deployed.
Monica Davey contributed reporting for this article.
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