Comments on: Iraq Report Undermines Bush’s Claim That He Is A ‘Credible’ Leader Because He ‘Reads The Intelligence’

By: LumpyDunky

LumpyDunky — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:01:41 +0000

Dictator Bush is an idiot who has quite literally run this once great country right into the ground.

By: house of cards

house of cards — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:22:22 +0000

If 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..

DEFENSE… NO ONE LIED.. NO ONE DELIBERATELY LET THE PUBLIC TO THINK THERE WAS EMINENT DANGER COMING FROM IRAQ WHEN THERE WASN’T..

THE ADMINISTRATION WAS LEAD BY FAULTY INTELLIGENCE.. BUSH WAS IN THE DARK..

there might be more books on their way… keep an eye out for them..

By: Robt

Robt — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:06:43 +0000

Please 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.

By: crjflyer

crjflyer — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:54:43 +0000

NBC 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?

By: impeachcheneythenbush

impeachcheneythenbush — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:14:25 +0000

It 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.

By: Tawdry

Tawdry — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:13:54 +0000

Yesterday 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.

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:12:50 +0000

Allright maybe three questions :)

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:12:06 +0000

One question that I would like to see ANYONE in the press corps ask Dana Purina:
“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?

By: pintosahab

pintosahab — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:10:30 +0000

My eyes hurt and my brain refuses to process when I see ‘Lamedick’, ‘read’, and ‘intelligence’ in the same sentence.

By: Chocolate Jesus

Chocolate Jesus — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:21:34 +0000

>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?

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:20:51 +0000

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?

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:56:43 +0000

Bush may be able to read…
… But can he comprehend?

By: techsong

techsong — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:12:08 +0000

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.

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:00:52 +0000

#61 questioneverything

It’s long past time to haul their asses off to court.
Impeachment 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.

By: questioneverything

questioneverything — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:18:55 +0000

I 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?

By: VerbalKint

VerbalKint — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:02:56 +0000

Bush doesn’t read, except for My Pet Goat.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:02:18 +0000

BUSH: I’m credible because I read the intelligence, David.

Has there ever been another President who has had to make such a statement?

By: Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:01:47 +0000

belac, 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.

By: Red Pill

Red Pill — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:58:19 +0000

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?

By: flex

flex — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:47:40 +0000

White 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. ”
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/21/60minutes/main1527749.shtml
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