Iraq Report Undermines Bush’s Claim That He Is A ‘Credible’ Leader Because He ‘Reads The Intelligence’
Iraq Report Undermines Bush’s Claim That He Is A ‘Credible’ Leader Because He ‘Reads The Intelligence’
Today, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee released the final two sections of its pre-war intelligence report. As Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said, the report concludes “that the Administration made significant claims that were not supported by the intelligence.”
In today’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino was dismissive of the report, explaining that President Bush made false statements before the Iraq war simply because he was kept in the dark:
PERINO: That dissent amongst experts within the intelligence community at some level did not reach the president.
Watch it:
In reality, Bush kept himself in the dark. As the report notes, the intelligence reports did contradict the administration’s hawkish statements. In fact, the National Intelligence Estimate of 2002, which the White House used to make the case for war, also included a “clear dissenting views” section:
The Estimate itself expressed the majority view that the program was being reconstituted, but included clear dissenting views from the State Department’s Buerau of Intelligence and Research, which argued that reconstitution was not underway, and the Department of Energy, which argued that aluminum tubes sought by Iraq were probably not intended for a nuclear weapon.
The revelations pour cold water on Bush’s rationale as to why he makes a good wartime leader. In 2007, he said that he is credible as Commander-in-Chief because he “reads” the intelligence:
Q: Can you explain why you believe you’re still a credible messenger on the war?
BUSH: I’m credible because I read the intelligence, David.
“All of the intelligence I looked at…the Congress looked at, said the same thing,” Bush said in 2004. Unfortunately, it seems that Bush only selectively “looked at” the intelligence.
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……”Unfortunately, it seems that Bush only selectively “looked at” the intelligence.”
Well, to be more precise, the only intelligence Darth and KKKarl allowed him to see. And it was all in big block letters, with lots of colored pictures.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:37 pmPhase 2 Report Ends Pat Roberts’ Iraq Intel Stonewall:
“I don’t think there should be any doubt that we have now heard it all regarding prewar intelligence. I think that it would be a monumental waste of time to replow this ground any further.” (March 31, 2005)
“To go though that exercise, it seems to me, in a post-election environment–we didn’t see how we could do that and achieve any possible progress. I think everybody pretty well gets it.” (March 31, 2005)
“[Phase 2] is basically on the back burner.” (March 10, 2005)
June 5th, 2008 at 6:37 pmWhy does reality continue to conspire against Bush?
Is reality un-American?
This truth will not stand!
I demand we return to a simpler time, when news was reported exactly as the White House wrote it and we were winning and people loved us and, and, and…
/snark
June 5th, 2008 at 6:43 pm/disgust
When one is the Idiot in Chief one doesn’t read. One has others tell beautiful fairy tales called “briefings”.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:44 pmUpside99 lef tout one thing about what chimpy saw..it was also done in crayon….just wanted to make that clear…
So what all of this boils down to is one thing..EVERYTHING Bush is a LIE..period.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:46 pmIs it just me, or is Dana “Puppy Chow” Purina having a harder and harder time standing there and LYING HER ARSE OFFevery day?
June 5th, 2008 at 6:50 pmNo matter how they spin it, no matter how many times they contradict themselves, we were lied to and it was intentional.
I do believe that Bush is an idiot, nothing can change that fact, but he is also a malicious, vindictive, power- and money-hungry.
What was done in the name of the American people is treason, pure and simple. Millions of lives and trillions of dollars have been wasted so BushCo could play Risk. I can only hope that, once out of office, the international community will have the courage that we’d hoped our Congress would have, and arrest these criminals if and when they leave this country.
PEACE
June 5th, 2008 at 6:50 pmOh! BTW If Dana keeps spinning like that she will become a drooling, gibbering, idiot. If you don’t believe me? look at some old clips,before she had to worry about keeping her own lies straight. She has developed a tic like a time bomb.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:51 pmPete,
Great minds and all.
Glad I am not the only one to see that!
June 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pmWhy do we not see the blow back in the press. The president and his minions take the worst possible position. The president’s defense has consistently been that he was ill served by his closest advisers who were either ignorant, incompetent or disloyal by preventing him from knowing the truth.
One could see this defense on one or two occasions as actually being creditable. However, we are expected to believe it for the entire group of his advisers on the NSC, in the State Dept and DoD on one of the most momentous decisions made in this administration. But then have we not seen this same excuse for every other foreign policy and domestic policy failure that we have seen from the Bush presidency? When do we finally get to the point when we acknowledge that it was the president’s leadership style or that this is absolutely the most incompetent president in history?
June 5th, 2008 at 6:54 pmNews: a new way for young women such as Dana P. to take off a couple of extra pounds in an hour: just lie your ass off for Pres. Bush…
Excuse #43: Bush was “kept in the dark”… Well, roll up the blinds, open the curtains, and let there be light…
June 5th, 2008 at 6:55 pmIt’s very unfortunate that the intelligence he read had little pictures divided up into tiny zones with numbers on them.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:01 pmPerino is such a bad liar though.
At least Snow lied with style.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:01 pmLike all good MBA’s, Bush would never let a little thing like contrary intelligence or critical thinking get in the way of LEADERSHIP.
The job of an executive is to decide on a course of action and THEN develop the rational for pursuing it…
So I’m sure that Bush did read/glance at/hear about the intelligence- he just had no time for any reports that contradicted his established world view and might undermine his DECISION.
A leader musn’t allow himself to be swayed by polls, intellegence, or consequence- to do that would be to admit defeat, and a leader never surrenders.
MBA’s have no business in government- period. They barely have any in business…
June 5th, 2008 at 7:01 pmDana is not doing well at all. Her cadence and tempo now drags, her face is starting to widen out, the eyes are noticeably heavier.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:01 pmIt must be rough trying to say the same nothingness 14 different ways.
Dubya selectively looked at the intelligence that Cheney selected for him to look at selectively.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:01 pmso who is really to blame hear?.
You and people like you.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:02 pmWho is to blame? Well, that would be Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Powell and Rumsfeld for starts.
Lots of complicity to go around, no doubt. But the liars that are directly to blame would be this cabal of criminals.
May they rot in hell.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:02 pmI hate to devolve to this kind of argument but… this is one dumb troll.
Makes me think he’s a progressive pretending to be a conservative in order to make them look as bad a s possible.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:03 pmHmmm, the phrase ‘facts being fixed around the agenda’ seem to ring a bell.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:03 pmSo Dana’s defense of Bush is that his administration so was so inept that it didn’t get the needed information to The Deciderer?
Well, I guess it’s not the first time they’ve tried to excuse their dishonesty as incompetence.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:05 pmIt doesn’t take that much smarts to see the obvious, But, I’ll take it as a compliment upside.
And JMOHR? I think we are seeing some improvement. The Scotty story has been fascinating because it’s the first time an insider has confirmed ANY accusation, and he indicted the press at the same time. And, in the short time since the “story broke” their seems to be a shift among more reputable people in the media. I think that Scotty’s example of “redemption through confession” will have repercussions long past the end of Bush’s Presidency. But the immediate effect is that the story, and the Reichwing reaction, have given Bush’s accusers credibility.
I’m quite sure that there are a lot of people saying, “My God, Bush did it.” Not many among true believers but enough to shake the more rational ones. And while potential snitches are realizing that they can trade their stories for leniency: corporate media types will be seeing the ratings for lies and excuses go down, while ratings for truth and solutions go up. It’s up to We The People to demand accountability from our government and our press and recent days have demonstrated the need for action to many who didn’t realize how dire the need was.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:09 pmRalph-
June 5th, 2008 at 7:11 pmre: rogers
I really worry that this is a home-schooled tenth-grader who is attempting to post here to complete some American Government assignments that his mother cooked up.
And that’s fine- more power to them.
I just worry that he’s gonna ‘graduate’ and then discover that the world doesn’t really let you substitute ‘Tell me why you hate Hitler, in detail!’ for a coherent argument.
“BUSH: I’m credible because I read the intelligence, David.”
LOL! Bush’s intelligence report is really his My Pet Goat book.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:16 pmThen, of course, you get your average trollish types who would, if on fire, douse themselves with gasoline because Lush Rimjob said it would make then manly men. Further proof that there are a certain number of people who are just so deluded they wouldn’t recognize reality if it did bad things to their fun parts.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:17 pmThe senate didn’t force Bush’s hand either- as I recall the vote was to grant the authorization to use force, which Bush swore he really needed in order to negotiate…
June 5th, 2008 at 7:17 pmIf you’re saying that Congress should have seen through that, had a spine and voted it down- I agree with you. I said so at the time.
Their weakness, however, does not make Bush any less criminaly inept and unqualified to lead…
The person who invades another country illegally is responsible for EVERYTHING concerning that invasion. EVERYTHING. Start, middle, and end. Up, down, and sideways; Bush owns this invasion and the lame attempt of our concern trolls to send the blame elsewhere is insulting to thinking people. You and your Low Information Voters may bite at the stupid ascertion that Bush was ‘ill-informed’, but it was Bush and Bush alone who accepted the bad intel and ran with it. If you still support this criminal enterprise, please seek professional help. Please.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:18 pmRalph and belac, rogers homeschooling isn’t working out so well for him.
“so who is really to blame hear“ - I guess that would be “here”
and, “i don’t know what other garbage your saying, thats all it is…” - perhaps that should be “you’re” and “that’s”
Now that we’ve ruled out English, Civics and History, perhaps he’d like to impress the crowd with his math skills.
PEACE
June 5th, 2008 at 7:22 pmthe point is there just as responisble for the act, good or bad.
I wonder if you’d feel that way if we had been greeted as liberator’s and democracy had flowered in Iraq? Somehow I doubt it…
June 5th, 2008 at 7:28 pmYou can question if you want if they voted correctly, but the point is there just as responisble for the act, good or bad.
And if you read the AUMF, it does not give the chimp limitless power, but he took it anyway. He used a wounded nation to rape our treasury and enrich his friends. How can you be proud of that?
June 5th, 2008 at 7:29 pmBush is neither credible or a leader. Never has been.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:32 pmYou know Bush is lying when his muttering includes the words ‘read’ and ‘intelligence’.
What a joke.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:35 pm“You’d think me incredible if I said I read the intelligence, David.”
June 5th, 2008 at 7:37 pm~Pres Bush
Well, this is of course nothing new. We already got it fully confirmed with the downing street memos and everyone could read the PNAC blueprints which were written before 9/11. Cheney didn’t map out those Iraqi oil fields in his energy task force for nothing and people like Karen Kwiatkowski has told details from inside the office of special plans where the intelligence was cherry picked and exaggerated to support the agenda.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality–judiciously, as you will–we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
As for the war on terrorism, I have serious doubts that it is real at all. As one journalist put it:
June 5th, 2008 at 7:38 pm““[In 1992] the goal was global dominance, and it met with bad reviews. Now it is the answer to terrorism. The emphasis is on preemption, and the reviews are generally enthusiastic. Through all of this, the dominance motif remains, though largely undetected.”
Even among those who studied what was provided, the substantial evidence against the Administration’s claims was refuted by bad intelligence or simply not considered. I’ll leave it as an exercise, for idiot trolls, to research the data from Germany, France and others, which the Administration refused. It was neither researched by American agencies nor passed on to House/Senate leadership (Republican at the time) nor distributed to legislators at large.
And even on those who did see enough intelligence to have misgivings, and voted in favor of military action, I’m inclined to accept the excuse that they didn’t think Bushco was really capable of invading AN INNOCENT NATION BASED ON BAD,INCOMPLETE or DOCTORED INTELLIGENCE!!!
They didn’t realize they were giving a gun to the proverbial monkey. Their mistake was to assume that Bush and his Administration would lawfully pursue the best interests of our nation. In short, they can’t be held responsible for failing to predict Bushco’s traitorous conduct.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:44 pm“All of the intelligence I looked at…the Congress looked at, said the same thing,” Bush said in 2004. Unfortunately, it seems that Bush only selectively “looked at” the intelligence.
Bush was never interested in intelligence beyond what he could cherry pick to justify the war he had already decided to wage. This was clear to anyone paying attention within days of 9/11 and should have been clear to everyone after the Downing street memos were released.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 5th, 2008 at 7:46 pmRogers-
June 5th, 2008 at 7:47 pmI wanna ask you a question…
Say your ten year-old brother feels like he’s been bullied on the playground and he comes to you and says, “Hey, let me borrow your knife, I won’t kill anyone- I just wanna scare these bullies who have been bullying me.”
And you hem and haw (’cause he’s only ten years old and can you trust him with the knife?) but eventually you give it to him after saying, “Now, promise me you won’t kill anyone?” and he says, “Sure” and then goes back to the playground and kills the bully and then two other kids that were standing next to the bully and it’s generally a horrible situation that will ruin everyone who comes in contact with it…
And then it came out that he wasn’t be bullied at all, and he knew it…
Would you still stuggle so to protect him?
I agree, they never should have given him the authority to use force and I agree that Congress has a whole heap of blame to share in this horrifing situation… but that shouldn’t stop us from locking the kid up for his own good, now should it?
belac Says:
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[…]MBA’s have no business in government- period. They barely have any in business…
Especially Business…MBAs are panty waste morons that never worked an honest day in their pathetic lives.
WANT TO RUIN YOUR BUSINESS IN 2 QUICK STEPS?
1) HIRE AN MBAs!
2) START AN HR DEPARTMENT
THOSE ARE USELESS EMPLOYEES!!!
June 5th, 2008 at 7:48 pmIn today’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino was dismissive of the report, explaining that President Bush made false statements before the Iraq war simply because he was kept in the dark:
PERINO: That dissent amongst experts within the intelligence community at some level did not reach the president.
In reality, Bush kept himself in the dark. As the report notes, the intelligence reports did contradict the administration’s hawkish statements. In fact, the National Intelligence Estimate of 2002, which the White House used to make the case for war, also included a “clear dissenting views” section…The revelations pour cold water on Bush’s rationale as to why he makes a good wartime leader. In 2007, he said that he is credible as commander in chief because he “reads” the intelligence:
Q: Can you explain why you believe you’re still a credible messenger on the war?
BUSH: I’m credible because I read the intelligence, David.
“All of the intelligence I looked at…the Congress looked at, said the same thing,” Bush said in 2004. Unfortunately, it seems that Bush only selectively “looked at” the intelligence.
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I find it virtually impossible to believe that Bush read all of the intelligence that he was given. After all, this is a man who has on the record admitted that he never reads newspapers …a practice which I think most people would see as being vital for any world leader, never mind the leader of one of the world’s foremost superpowers, if he wants to be effective. Here’s the quote:
“I get my news from people who don’t editorialize…They give me the actual news, and it makes it easier to digest, on a daily basis, the facts.” (George W. Bush — December 2003)
The trouble with this is that over the last seven-odd years, Bush has made it crystal clear time and time again that he has little or no patience or tolerance for anyone or anything which challenges or conflicts with what he thinks is true or wants to be true — and I think it’s safe to assume that the White House staffers probably cottoned on to this fairly quickly. When this aspect of Bush’s character is entered into the equation, does it seem possible that Bush’s aides might have eventually started selectively editing the information which they passed along to him so that he would find it more palatable? I think most rational people would acknowledge that this does indeed seem possible — perhaps even quite likely.
If Bush truly did read all of the intelligence that he was given, then today’s statement that he knew nothing of the dissenting opinions within the intelligence community is a flagrant and baldfaced lie (surprise, surprise) — because if he had read all of it, he would have learned of the dissenting opinions. No…what seems far more likely is that he either chose to read only those parts which seemed to confirm what he wanted to be true or that he did read the dissenting opinion but refused to take it seriously (although in fairness to him, if he read it but dismissed it, perhaps he’s completely forgotten that he read it — and even this still wouldn’t reflect all that well on him).
Admittedly, most if not all people are unfortunately subject to some degree of cognitive bias — it seems to simply be part of human nature — but Bush is someone who seems to be severely afflicted by it.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:52 pmI have a non-sequitor answer for your non-sequitor question…
June 5th, 2008 at 8:03 pmIf there really is a Dessert Fox, I hope to meet it and recieve Ice Cream and Chery Cordials!!!
And the troll refuses to answer a sound theoretical question, but instead demands that his questioner answer a different one.
Pathetic and transparent.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:05 pmNicely handled, belac.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:06 pmSee Rogers- this is what I’m talking about… “answer this crazy question” is not a real argument… it’s a distraction, as you seem to be.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:06 pmIt really is hard to watch this daily dissembling coming from what ever white house toady, er, I mean, press secretary they trot out to do the daily lie-like-a-rug routine. It insults the intelligence of anyone paying the least bit of attention to the most corrupt administration in modern American history.
The latest lies spouted by toady Perino - among others - is that this has all been discussed and dismissed before. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The final two sections of the loooongest running study in Senate history is the ONLY report so far that has studied the USE (or misuse) of pre-war intelligence. The other reports were given guidelines that instructed them NOT to explore the MISUSE of intelligence.
So, over five years into this freaking disaster, we FINALLY get a report that looks specifically at how intelligence was used - not just the accuracy of the intelligence. And, of course, we find out - WAY too late - what we already knew - THIS CRIMINAL ADMINISTRATION LIED US INTO A WAR!!
Can we impeach these bastards now???
June 5th, 2008 at 8:09 pmArguing with you, rogers, I feel sometimes like I’m Michael Palin and you’re Graham Chapman in the Argument Sketch…
June 5th, 2008 at 8:15 pm“I wanted an argument…”
“Oh, that’s down the hall- This is abuse!”
’cause I know you’re too young and I wanna further you’re education…
June 5th, 2008 at 8:18 pmStupid git….
June 5th, 2008 at 8:18 pmDana Perino.
The new “Scotty”.
I predict Dana’s book will come out the summer of 2009.
After the Repugs have lost the election in November, Dana will miracuously see the light and publish her own book of the George W. admins illegal wars.
Of course, like Scotty, she will not own up to any of the embellishments she spoke to the news repeaters for all those years.
She’ll get a six figure advance on her book and retire from politics somewhere in the vicinity of Honululu.
Troubled
June 5th, 2008 at 8:18 pmoops! you’re education = your education
June 5th, 2008 at 8:19 pmimpeach > remove > indict for crimes against humanity > convict > sentence to life in prison no chance of parol.
repeat for cheney.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:21 pmWhite House Press Secretary Dana Perino and the evil neo-con Bushies just can’t keep from lying. They were given the Right intelligence, they just ignored it.
How many times do I have to prove them liars? Until they are all put behind bars. The proof is in the video at link below. How can we ask John Conyers to get Drumheller before Congress under oath?
“Drumheller was the CIA’s top man in Europe, the head of covert operations there, until he retired a year ago. He says he saw firsthand how the White House promoted intelligence it liked and ignored intelligence it didn’t:
“It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure,” Drumheller tells Bradley.
(CBS) When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller — a 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.
He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president’s determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not. ”
June 5th, 2008 at 8:47 pm.
http://www.cbsnews.com/ stories/ 2006/ 04/ 21/ 60minutes/ main1527749.shtml
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Sorry, Fascist Barbie, but “President Bush” and “intelligence” can no longer lawfully collide in the same sentence.
Not that I would expect you to recognize anything lawful. Bay of Pigs much?
June 5th, 2008 at 8:58 pmbelac, it is very hard to win a debate when your opponet is not hampered with a knowledge of the facts. Rather than engage R2, thr a stray animal in your neighborhood, there’s a better chance in getting an intellegent response.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:01 pmBUSH: I’m credible because I read the intelligence, David.
Has there ever been another President who has had to make such a statement?
June 5th, 2008 at 9:02 pmBush doesn’t read, except for My Pet Goat.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:02 pmI am sorry, but the time for jokes and snarky, clever comments is over. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Feith, Addington, Rove, and others, drove this country to a war that has killed over 4,000 American soldiers, permanently maimed and injured over 25,000 Americans, directly killed or incited violence which has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. American taxpayers for generations will be paying the $1-3 TRILLION dollar bill for this insanity. Don’t talk to your enemies because they might stop the war profiteering. They might suggest options that actually lower oil prices. I call this treason. These people are killing the US and all we stand for. If congress won’t do its job and impeach, then I suggest a massive voter petition to demand prosecution, however it can be accomplished. How much more evidence do we damn well need?
June 5th, 2008 at 9:18 pm#61 questioneverything
It’s long past time to haul their asses off to court.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:00 pmImpeachment is off the table, but criminal prosecution is something else.
File charges! High crimes and misdemeanors: if that doesn’t include what these criminals have done, I can’t imagine what it does constitute.
Sorry Dana it’s not an old issue. We’re still in Iraq and people are still dying. The lead up to how we got there is still alive and well.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:12 pm.
Bush may be able to read…
… But can he comprehend?
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June 6th, 2008 at 12:56 am.
Dear Barbie Perino,
Ineffectual incompetence IS NOT an excuse for the military blunder your Bushie got this world into, concerning Iraq. The entire intelligence community included Germany, France, Russia, and China who collectively disagreed with the intelligence that your Bushie had. Is it disingenuous of you and Heir Bush to claim the “ENTIRE” intelligence community or are you just continuing the lie?
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June 6th, 2008 at 1:20 am>I wonder if you’d feel that way if we had been greeted as >liberator’s and democracy had flowered in Iraq?
The premise that such a result could in any possible scenario, come from such an action is pure idiocy!
Might as well talk about how’d you’d feel if you started sh!tt!ing gold…I’ll bet you’d stop flushing it down the toilet, right?
June 6th, 2008 at 2:21 amMy eyes hurt and my brain refuses to process when I see ‘Lamedick’, ‘read’, and ‘intelligence’ in the same sentence.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:10 amOne question that I would like to see ANYONE in the press corps ask Dana Purina:
June 6th, 2008 at 9:12 am“You claim that the President of the United States was kept in the dark pertaining to intel that directly contradicted what the President was telling the Senate, the press and the American people about the threat of WMD from Iraq. Shouldn’t the President, by this point, be furious and diligent in routing out exactly who within his Administration DID know about this contradictory intel and didin’t tell him about it?
Has anyone been disiplined over keeping all the intel from the President? Because he seems to still be standing by his faulty intel. Also Dana what about the false threats that Bush asserted to the Senate, the press and the American people that now we see were fabricated and directly contradict what the known and accepted facts were at the time (yellow cake uranium, aluminum tubes, WMB trucks). Can you explain why the President, after he clearly learned about the lack of facts to back up his claims, would employ scare tactics using false threats with the Senate, the press and the American people in order to continue his agenda? And finally Dana, what’s with that tic you’re developing?
Allright maybe three questions :)
June 6th, 2008 at 9:12 amYesterday Richard Clarke told Keith Olbermann that the Bush administration has to “pay” in some way for the lies about the Iraq war. It seems impeachment is totally out the question. Hope the Obama administration hauls them all to court, including Bimbo Perino.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:13 amIt wasn’t only Bush who didn’t read the entire NAE. Only 7 members of Congress read it!! This was irresponsibility on the largest scale possible, and as a result, over 4,000 of our troops have died, 25,000+ injured (many grievously), and at least 100,000 (probably many more) Iraqis have died…unknown tens of thousands injured.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:14 amNBC Nightly News buried this story yesterday, and spent less than 30 seconds on it…the biggest story of the decade!…I was disgusted, but not totally surprised…Who is paying them off?
NPR radio news did a good job with it…
Did anyone see any other coverage?
June 6th, 2008 at 12:54 pmPlease Dana,
We’ll wait for your tell all book of how you lied to America on behalf of the White House while on American taxpayer’s payroll.
And it is very benevolent of Dana to give allowance for those that still want answers and responsibility to occur.
Like the firing of those who do wrong and illegal things. IE-Scooter, Rove, Gonzales.
Dana, please explain how one lower level Dept of Justice worker as John Yoo can have the ability and authority to write a legal law memo that allows torture? When the DOJ is not the legislative branch and he wasn’t elected to make those laws. How does he write a law on his own that the entire United States has to adhere? One little DOJ attty becomes the unitary legislative branch?
Dana, after Scotty’s book. Hasn’t it occured to you that America is not as dumb and gullible as the White House is telling you. And your communication directors are marketing nightmares as far as advising you what to say.
Can anyone really wait for Tony Snow to tell all?
How he believes in this lying President and how Tony is in it for himself and not for country even though flag pins are supposed to insulate him from his greed.
Tony who took a Gov’t job. From the Gov’t he talks down about. Accepts taxpayer funded paychecks in return for lying to those taxpayers. Sucks up medical benefits for his cancer treatment from taxpayers that aren’t able to afford their own health care.
I guess FOX didn’t pay health care and Tony knew he needed cancer treatment and took the Gov’t job for his health care and once done. He bugs out.
I guess that Republican “Brand” is becoming unmarketable.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:06 pmIf this administration were to face legal prosecution… then..
McClellan’s book seemed to be a kind of legal paper… or prospectus on the veracity for a defense..
there might be more books on their way… keep an eye out for them..
June 6th, 2008 at 7:22 pmDictator Bush is an idiot who has quite literally run this once great country right into the ground.
JT
June 7th, 2008 at 11:01 amOnline PRivacy when it Counts!