On the front page of ‘The Times Of India’ today were many articles about India’s ongoing war of words with Pakistan about the terror attacks in Mumbai but one little sub-article made me laugh until coffee came outta my nose. 

Here’s the text:

Indian dossier credible: Mulford

    A day after authorities in Pakistan rubbished India’s dossier linking Pakistani nationals with the Mumbai attacks, US ambassador to India David C Mulford said the evidence provided to Islamabad by New Delhi was ‘‘credible’’. Mulford told TOI on Wednesday that the dossier had been prepared with help from the FBI. “The US is not in the business of compiling evidence that is not credible,” he said when asked about Pakistan dismissing it.

The US isn’t in the business of compiling evidence that is not credible? Are you fucking kidding me? Does anyone remember the ongoing War in Iraq? Does anyone remember that they never found any WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction,nukes) in the country? None. Not a single one. Zilch. Zip. Nada. (Proof of nukes was the US’s reason for invading Iraq.)  

And the US now admits it fucked up. I still remember watching the press conference a few years back where then CIA chief George Tenet said that the US had ‘SLAM DUNK EVIDENCE’ that Iraq had WMDs.

SLAM. DUNK. EVIDENCE. Repeat those three words aloud to yourself. This is the Chief of the most important, most powerful intelligence agency of the most powerful country in the world. An agency that has shaped world events either openly or behind the scenes like no other.

(For a complete, blow by blow account of the CIA’s history, read ‘Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA’ by  Tim Weiner.)

If one douchebag talking like a teenage frat boy wasn’t bad enough, Vice-President Dick Cheney later appeared on television and repeated the moronic statement twice while defending the US’s decision to go to war with Iraq.   

In his defence George Tenet later wrote a book ‘At the Center of the Storm’ in which he was self critical about the statement and also admitted that those were the dumbest  three words to ever come out of a person’s mouth.

All I can say to the US ambassador to India, David Mulford, is this:

HEY MR. US AMBASSADOR! SLAM DUNK THIS!