I dodged nothing. Clapper is the new Schippers. Someone you choose to believe simply because it fits your agenda. And there are those who disagree with him. So Clapper saw a heavy flow of traffic out of Iraq before the invasion and that led him to believe that illicit weapons material "unquestionably" had been moved out of Iraq. No proof of course. The fact that this was just his personal assessment and that his own spokesman said that he could not provide further evidence to support the general's statement I guess is irrelevant to you. Because in your own words, he's a complete and utter failure. I guess he just got this one thing right. ROFL I am not claiming that he is correct, simply that even Obama is willing to hire someone who still believes that Iraq had WMDs; that Bush was correct in his assessment that Iraq was a dangerous threat because of it. As former CIA Director James Woolsey noted, there is rarely proof in the field of intelligence. Obama's hiring of Clapper reveals your Democrat Talking Point Lie that "Bush lied!" about WMDs. That's bulls***. Bush said little different than Bill Clinton, his cabinet Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and other high ranking Democrats. You're a scurrilous liar.