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Fleischer Defends Iraq Invasion: After 9/11, ‘How Could We Take A Chance’ That Saddam Might ‘Strike Again’?

Yesterday on MSNBC, former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was back to defend President Bush’s legacy. One of the flack’s favorite subjects is the Iraq war. Last month, he went on CNN and said that Saddam Hussein — not the Bush administration — was actually “the big liar.” Yesterday he dragged out a long-recycled talking point: Saddam was behind 9/11. He also claimed that President Obama owes Bush a big “thank you”:

FLEISCHER: It was in part because of Iraq and large part because of the economy that Barack Obama won. Having said that, I also think Barack Obama should say thank you every day that he inherited a world without Saddam Hussein in it. The one thing people are going to remember the most is that he kept us safe. [...]

But after September 11th, having been being hit once, how could we take a chance that Saddam Hussein might not strike again? We got a report saying al Qaeda is determined to attack the United States. Well, that’s not a surprise. Of course, they are. It doesn’t say where, it doesn’t say when, it doesn’t say how. So, if you get a report like that, what do you do?

Watch it:

Let’s go over it again: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Of course, Bush and his ilk tried to convince the public that there was a connection in order to push for the invasion of Iraq.

In the past year, Bush administration officials have continued to defend this lie. As recently as December, Bush said that he stood behind his decision to push this discredited connection in order to go to war, even if the facts were wrong. Condoleezza Rice argued in July, “In the post 9/11 environment, you couldn’t let a threat to international peace and stability like that [Saddam] Hussein] remain.” Vice President Cheney is refusing to even admit that they were ever wrong, saying in March 2008, “Now, was that a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda? Seems to me pretty clear that there was.”

Over at the Wonk Room, Matt Duss looks at “the massive success of George W. Bush’s presidency” in Fleischer’s world, writing, “So Bush deserves no blame for the attack that occurred in the first year of his presidency, but he deserves full credit for the fact that no more attacks occurred for the rest of his presidency. I find this argument to be an insult to snake oil.”

(HT: Wayne Schneider and TP Zoo)



81 Responses to “Fleischer Defends Iraq Invasion: After 9/11, ‘How Could We Take A Chance’ That Saddam Might ‘Strike Again’?”

  1. RUCerious says:

    Strike? Again? Was he like a labor leader or something?
    /WTF


  2. Luis M says:

    But after September 11th, having been being hit once, how could we take a chance that Saddam Hussein might not strike again?

    Argh! The sssstupid! It hurtsss ussss!


  3. rastaman says:

    i thought i was the only one that caught that statement by Fleischer.

    you know….i think they actually start believing their own lies.


  4. Luis M says:

    He also claimed that President Obama owes Bush a big “thank you”

    Sure. L’il Bush’s Wacky Iraqi Adventure made it very easy for a Democrat to reach the presidency. It would’ve been so much harder to replace the Republicans if Bush had, y’know, done his work as a President of the United States instead of acting like the global bully he was.

    Thank you, Bush!


  5. 666trolls says:

    “How could we take a chance” that the English won’t “strike again”?


  6. Badmoodman says:

    Fleischer Defends Iraq Invasion: After 9/11, ‘How Could We Take A Chance’ That Saddam Might ‘Strike Again’?

    – - I watched that interview with my jaw resting on my chest. Then I got angry. Flesicher rivals Rove for sheer smarminess and chutzpah.


  7. hanshiro says:

    I agree with Olbermann: To say these things, Fleischer had to be stoned.

    “We got this arrogant, condescending crap that Obama should basically be sending thank you notes to Bush every day for ridding the world of Saddam Hussein,” Olbermann said, asking Newsweek editor and MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter, “Is the idea that the more ridiculous you make the spin, the larger the yield?”

    “I don’t think there’s too much reality,” Alter said of the Bush aides, adding “These folks are all in the legacy business. A lot of the Bush veterans can’t find jobs so they have plenty of time to go out and spin for their old boss.”


  8. makete says:

    Did you also catch the one about bush’s historic high employment?


  9. krystalviews says:

    Somebody please SLAP that man!

    This is all part of the “legacy project”. I wonder how they will react when the ICC indicts Bush as a War Crminal??

    Some “legacy” THAT will be !!


  10. 666trolls says:

    I guess that’s a bad analogy… the English actually have struck us before.


  11. trooper says:

    strike again? what is he, french?

    i really love whole “strike again” meme. i wonder if fleishers wife might come down here and “strip again” for us? of if his kids might “bring a gun to school again” anytime soon? how about he “lie again” on TV?

    i like it. i will use it in all my discussions with republicans from here on out.


  12. misshusseinmolly says:

    This just boggles the mind. These Bushbots just continue to casually talk about Saddam Hussein and 9/11 as if it’s accepted truth — figuring that by doing so without putting forth any evidence, people really WILL accept it.

    I could understand the political reasons for doing so right after 9/11 when BushCo was desperately manufacturing a reason to invade Iraq. But now? The only possible reason is to manufacture some sort of legacy for Bush, and all they have are tired old debunked lies.


  13. spencers mom says:

    Having seen the whole segment last night, I’ve gotta hand it to Matthews on this one. Ari reminded me of a bald David Addington, snearing and lying while remaining self-righteous and pompous.

    We the People will not be fooled again by you fools!

    PEACE


  14. raynman says:

    And then there’s this little tidbit:

    We got a report saying al Qaeda is determined to attack the United States. Well, that’s not a surprise. Of course, they are. It doesn’t say where, it doesn’t say when, it doesn’t say how. So, if you get a report like that, what do you do?

    Um, Ari, you got that Memo BEFORE 9/11, and your beloved Bush and his administration did nothing to address it.

    Reality, you should try it sometimes


  15. telestai2 says:

    Has someone chastized Arigant’s mother for failing to teach her son not to lie?????


  16. Max-1 says:

    .

    Dear Ari,
    Ignoring intelligence about the impending 9/11/01 was something you and the Bush Administration did well…
    … Congrats!

    Be proud of that!

    .


  17. alphainfinityomega says:

    I like Chris, but Tweety let him off with that one (Saddam striking again).
    Also, Chris let him off with saying that Bush inherited a recession. I remember for a fact, during the Florida re-count, Limbaugh saying ‘As good as the economy is, Al Gore should have won by 10%’.
    Other than those two things, Tweety did pretty good at calling Fleisher out on his lies.

    ¶ AIO


  18. hanshiro says:

    10.666trolls Says: I guess that’s a bad analogy… the English actually have struck us before.

    Yeah, first ‘The Spice Girls’…then the ‘Return of The Spice Girls.’

    Our music may not recover….


  19. telestai2 says:

    misshusseinmolly Says:
    The only possible reason is to manufacture some sort of legacy for Bush, and all they have are tired old debunked lies.

    Rather than manufacturing a legacy per se, they’re trying to whitewash that legacy: trying to gloss over the lies, the total lack of ethics, the selfishness, the stupidity, the venom, the egomania, the greed, the anarchy, the pig-headedness practiced by Shrub and his merry maniacs.



  20. Chocolate Jesus says:

    >during the Florida re-count, Limbaugh saying
    > ‘As good as the
    >economy is, Al Gore should have won by 10%’.

    He probably did win in by that much, in actuality..floriday had some pretty spectacular instances of voter fraud…al gore getting negative 16,000 + votes in one electonic tally in one county, anyone with a name vaugely resembling that of a convicted felon being purged from voter rolls(unless you were hispanic, a minority, which, in florida, tends to vote republican), concerted efforts to set speed traps, etc around minority polling places…the list goes on..bush’s brother running the state certaintly didnt hurt these effforts..


  21. RUCerious says:

    Shouldn’t Arevisionist be selling used cars in the desert somewhere?


  22. larkohio says:

    Saddam strike us again? I don’t remember when he did it the first time. Now, I do remember he had a war with Iran, and invaded Kuwait, but when did he “strike” us? What is Ari smoking? That war was based on lies that the Bush Administration spoon fed the American public. Does Ari think no one remembers or that we poor dumb clucks out here in the heartland can actually read? Sheeesh!


  23. Max-1 says:

    .

    Oh, and Ari,
    When exactly did Saddam strike America the first time?

    You defend 9/11 all down the line; The incompetence, the lack of defense, leaving the President in a public location for over 30 minutes(while America was under attack), ignorance of lead up info, the subsequent war(s). What proof are you referring to that Saddam might strike America… AGAIN?

    .

    What a F_uickin’ blow hard…
    … Defending something that never happened.

    REMEMBER THE LIES:
    1) Saddam NEVER truck on American soil.
    2) There were no WMD’s
    3) Saddam never had ties to Al-CIA-duh!

    .


  24. 666trolls says:

    hanshiro,

    Ew, so true… but maybe the Beatles, Stones and The Fall ultimately even it out… maybe.


  25. 00mpp00 says:

    Ari’s probably just a little cranky because he can’t find any work. You know, employers generally don;t want a prospective employee who could be indicted one day…

    http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog


  26. Teowens says:

    I also think Barack Obama should say thank you every day that he inherited a world without Saddam Hussein in it.

    No, Bush should be thanking Obama for not tossing him and everyone in his adminstration who condoned toture for the sake of national security. I watched this interview in its entirety and it was bizzare. He wanted to completely disregard Bush’s screw up of 9/11 and take FULL credit for not having another attack since. And did he really think people believed him when he said he would’nt blame Obama if there was another attack? Yeah right! He and Karl Rove(soon to be jail bird Rove) would be the first ones pointing their finger at Obama. Obama has only been in office for two months and you already have Rove saying the economic crisis is his fault. As I said Bizzare and stupid!


  27. avchavis says:

    Goodness this lunatic has such a hardon for Bush! This nut lives in an alternate universe. Ari – just say no to drugs! Now that’s a slogan that the GOPers need to bring back from the Reagan era! LMAO!


  28. Max-1 says:

    #10 666trolls,
    Yes. And each time America never gave up personal Liberties as defined in the Constitution…
    … Until Bush!


  29. Clumberfeet says:

    Stuck on Stupid.


  30. Trollspotter says:

    Ari Fleischer Says:

    President Obama owes Bush a big “thank you”

    Cue Will Ferrell.

    You’re Welcome, America


  31. liberalinaredstate says:

    This is infuriating! I find that I have this simmering anger at the Republican Party and esp Bush. I cannot look a Bush supporter in the eye without wanting to lose my temper. And where I live Bush supporters still exist…still wishing for him to be in office for a third term nonsense. And to hear this kind of BS still on the airwaves is so infuriating. What is their f**king problem? How can they be THAT comfortable to continue to lie thru their teeth like that? I know it’s a dumb question.
    Ari is a putz


  32. kasinca says:

    Ari lied all the time he was in the administration and the busheviks are still lying. When you see KKKarl or Ari or any of the thugs of the bushevik crime family, they will be lying their sitting down places off. Book it.


  33. 5th Estate says:

    Fleischer is a deluded hack, of course, but Matthews is an idiot.

    Being a reactionary ‘opinionator’ himself he doesn’t counter with facts to back up his arguments, he just goes cites recent public opinion to support his argument with Fleischer.

    Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11! That’s a fact.
    Bush was warned about an impending attack against the US and ignored it. That’s a fact.

    And let’s not forget Matthews’s crush on Bush for all these years. Matthews is an ADD-afflicted man-child and his indignance now is jarring, given that he has the job he has due to his ‘experience’.


  34. Cats r Flyfishn says:

    Congrats, Wayne Schneider. You be da man :)

    Fleischer is a fool. It looked like an idiot on Hardball and sounded like a spoiled child.


  35. krazeeinjun says:

    “But after September 11th, having been being hit once, how could we take a chance that Saddam Hussein might not strike again?”

    Ari Fleischer — Professional Liar.

    Just saying . . .


  36. hanshiro says:

    14.raynman Says:

    And then there’s this little tidbit:

    We got a report saying al Qaeda is determined to attack the United States. Well, that’s not a surprise. Of course, they are. It doesn’t say where, it doesn’t say when, it doesn’t say how. So, if you get a report like that, what do you do?

    Um, Ari, you got that Memo BEFORE 9/11, and your beloved Bush and his administration did nothing to address it.

    Reality, you should try it sometimes

    It gets worse. If this is true, it would eclipse the bush presidency and his disregard of the PDB (summary of Daily Show via Democratic Underground):

    Jon Stewart of the Daily Show just interviewed Nathaniel Frank, the author of Unfriendly Fire – How the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America a book about the consequences of DADT to our military and the discharge of over 12,000 military members, many of whom were considered “mission critical” personnel,
    since this ill conceived law went into effect.

    This is the most appalling thing I have heard in a while. After discharging hundreds of Arab speakers and translators who were outed as gay as a result of DADT, the US intelligence intercepted a message from Al Queda on September 10, 2001 and it read, “tomorrow is zero hour.”

    Due to the shortage of Arabic speakers, even as gay Arabic speakers were being discharged to create that shortage, the message was not translated until September 12, 2001.

    This was said at the end of the Stewart interview here. About the 4:20 mark.

    The mind explodes….


  37. shoeless says:

    This one puzzled me for a moment. Then I remembered EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS A LIE!


  38. Realness says:

    In a world based in reality, Ari would be raked across the coals for this.

    In a country with an embarassing education level for a developed nation, an abnormally high predisposition for fundamentalism, a public practically drooling from its own self-imposed isolationism and rampant consumerism, this is just another valid viewpoint from another self-interested politician we’re too apathetic to research. “They’re all liars, so lets not really believe anyone! When’s my favorite sitcom on…?”

    That’s why this shit works. Especially if you keep hammering away at it.


  39. Coonsey says:

    What do you expect from anybody that served DURING the Bush admin? They are just as guilty as Bush for not telling the American people they were being LIED to. So now they must make Bush look good, for themselves to look good.


  40. woke says:

    Let’s see now….

    Saddam’s Bath Govt=a puppet govt of the usa that was secular and denied the warring factions of Islam control of iraq’s govt….

    and now?

    An iraqnam invaded, destroyed and occupied by foreigners who share not looks or religion with their occupiers and whose govt is again a puppet govt.

    The difference?

    The current iraqnam constitution allows no law to be legislated that conflicts with Islamic Law…

    ie….a THEOCRACY

    Great job there, brownie….er ari…


  41. Briseadh na Faire says:

    Again, if 9/11 was an inside job, it would be quite easy to “keep us safe.”

    Of course, Fleisher also ignores the beltway sniper and anthrax mailings.


  42. winddancer says:

    Another huge lie Ari was peddling was that they quickly cleared up any allegations that Saddam had nuclear weapons and/or was developing them quickly. Right…other than many members of their administration (Rice, Bush and Cheney in particular) talking about the “mushroom cloud) which was repeated endlessly by the media echo chamber. And Powell’s presentation at the U.N. regarding aluminum tubes and yellow cake. All prior to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq and used to get the American people’s support for such an invasion. And the outing of a CIA agent (Plame) in revenge for her husband telling the world that no yellow cake was ever purchased from Niger…after the invasion had occurred..and so on and so forth. And let’s not forget the shift from Saddam actually possessing WMD to “pursuing WMD programs.” Once that whole meme failed, it was all about taking out a dictator on the basis of humanitarian issues. Well, the majority of Americans now know that we were lied into that war. The one thing the administration never did was tell us the truth of their motivations. It was about one thing: OIL.


  43. gummitch says:

    Let’s go over it again: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Of course, Bush and his ilk tried to convince the public that there was a connection in order to push for the invasion of Iraq.

    There’s a piece missing here. For an extended period after it became clear that the Bush administration had lied to the American public (who persisted in believing that Saddam was, in fact, behind 9/11), Bush apologists insisted that HE NEVER SAID THAT. Right here on TP, these apologists parsed the words of Bush, Cheney and other staffers, claiming that they never actually said that Saddam was to blame.

    This is just as important a lie as the original (and now revived) lie spouting from Ari Fleischer.


  44. dasm says:

    “But after September 11th, having been being hit once, how could we take a chance that Saddam Hussein might not strike again?”

    With comments like that, Fleischer goes beyond being an ignorant liar. He morphed into just plain stupid.


  45. MCMetal says:

    He also claimed that President Obama owes Bush a big “fu(k you”:

    Fixed it


  46. 5th Estate says:

    Trollspotter..thanks for the Ferrel link. Wonderfully absurd, that ‘conversation’ rings so true!


  47. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    My favorite part of the interview (besides saying that Saddam was responsible for 911) was when Fleischer told Matthews, in response to the PDB warning about AQ wanting to strike in the US, was the same as when Condi said “But it didn’t tell us when and where it would happen”. I fear for this nation if our intelligence community can’t act unless the enemy sends us a blueprint of their plans including who, what, when, where, why and how. I think that Matthews did a terrible job in this interview. He didn’t call Fleischer on equating Saddam and 911 and he didn’t point out that the PDB mentioned “attacking the US with airplanes”. So what if we didn’t know exactly where and when. That warning should have put all our airports on full alert and if that had happened, it may have prevented 911 from ever happening.


  48. Danny Noonan says:

    Talk about a man who has never felt shame. What a whore.

    http://www.pufferfishblog.com/


  49. pbg says:

    How could we take a chance by leaving Osama bin Laden alive and free?


  50. pastcaring says:

    We got a report saying al Qaeda is determined to attack the United States. Well, that’s not a surprise. Of course, they are. It doesn’t say where, it doesn’t say when, it doesn’t say how. So, if you get a report like that, what do you do?

    ___________
    Uh…it did.

    #32 liberalinaredstate Says:

    This is infuriating! I find that I have this simmering anger at the Republican Party and esp Bush. I cannot look a Bush supporter in the eye without wanting to lose my temper.

    _____________

    Well, calling them a F^c&!ng Idiot to their face and then annihilating them with facts and reality every chance I get helps me cope–maybe you can try it too.

    I have done this with my bosses and co-workers, there are a lot of these around surprisingly. ;(


  51. Shayne says:

    I wonder if Ari’s display of being able to lie and becoming indignant when called on it will help him get another job.


  52. pastcaring says:

    Of course their intelligence level is quite surprisingly low so they usually do not realize they’ve been insulted. I think this is due to the fact that they turned off their critical thinking skills long ago and have turned on their ‘thought-blockers’.

    ;)


  53. Mark701 says:

    Let this be a reminder to everyone just how strong stupid can be.


  54. tombaker says:

    Ari figured out a long time ago that his only hope for a paycheck would be to keep pushing BS for Bushco. He’s been way ahead of the curve the rest of the Bushies are following now. What a sad, sad, excuse for a man. (both of’em)


  55. DallasNE says:

    Ari is full of it when he says the Aug. 6th PDB did not say how bin Laden might attack. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0409041pdb1.html Page 2 clearly states that bin Laden’s activities “were consistent with a highjacking attempt”. 5 weeks later bin Laden highjacks 4 passenger jets and the rest is history.


  56. buzzbomb says:

    You know what’s a threat to international peace?

    The U.S. mutherf’n ARMY!!!


  57. A Patriot Acting says:

    Seeing as how the Repukes constantly “confused” the name Obama with Osama during the elections maybe the good soldier Ari Fleischer meant to say that OSAMA should send Bush a thank you note.


  58. Trollspotter says:

    5th Estate Says:

    Trollspotter..thanks for the Ferrel link. Wonderfully absurd, that ‘conversation’ rings so true!

    Glad you liked it, and I agree it really does ring true. Should be a great show Saturday 9 pm.


  59. 8thAvatar says:

    again ??

    And he was let go without any Rebuttal question ?

    That is what the problem is, the majority of media has became circus. They are simply filling hours, doing time pass and getting paid !!


  60. CageyCretin says:

    It’s not just Bush’s legacy they are trying to whitwash — its the republican brand. No matter how hard they try to spin away from Bush (”He was not a REAL conservative”), the fact remains that the vast majority of the public, including many republicans, aren’t letting that go — Bush WAS a republican, and thus his actions and the actions of his administration reflect directly on Republicans, conservatives, and neoconservatives — AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL POLICIES.

    Thus: Bush=failure corresponds directly to conservative/republican ideas = failure

    Bush is the albutross around the republican neck, and they are trying desperately to throw it overboard.

    However, I hope the analogy isn’t too precise there, as the thought of an undead repugnican’t party is just too much to stand….


  61. Luis M says:

    FLEISCHER: The one thing people are going to remember the most is that he kept us safe. […]

    Bush Depression. Katrina – Fema – “Heckuva job, Brownie”. 9/11. Abu Ghraib. Telecom spying. GITMO.

    Nah, I’m sure there’s a LOT of things people are going to remember.


  62. DRxJ says:

    Over this past summer, after evening golf, friends and I got into a heated (but not mean) argument over politics at our local watering hole. It was basically 4 righties vs. the lone leftie (myself). It involved them ridiculing the Democratic National Convention, and me ridiculing Bush as the worst president ever.
    As the “debate” became more and more heated, one particular friend who leans about as right as Oxybreath, brought up a hypothetical scenario, which was that thank goodness Al Gore wasn’t president during 9/11. This raised my bull $hit argument detector, and I called him on it. As the back and forth rhetoric of meaningless, beer induced mythical debates continued, I finally straight up asked him “Does the occupation in Iraq justify 9/11?” He balked, and tried to change the subject (hey, like a troll), but I would not relinquish. After a few minutes of ignoring his requests, and repeating my question, he finally answered (looking down at the floor) “No!”
    We then agreed to not argue anymore the rest of the night.

    At least among my group of moderates/republican friends, they know Iraq has NOTHING to do with 9/11. So I wonder, who is Arie Farie pandering too? The uninformed trailer dwellers who believe in alien abductions and human spontaneous combustion?

    Oh, and don’t mix beer and politics with friends!


  63. NoMoreBush says:

    Heard that last night and was like — WTF? They have repeated that discredited lie so many times, I think they actually believe it. Uh, but history won’t.


  64. ljm says:

    I agree with Bilbo #48 and they sure took advantage of Code Orange in the following years when it served them. Did I hear him right that because we were not attacked here after 9/11 that Bush was a great President? Please Ari-head!


  65. hanshiro says:

    65. DRxJ Says: Over this past summer, after evening golf, friends and I got into a heated (but not mean) argument over politics at our local watering hole. It was basically 4 righties vs. the lone leftie (myself). It involved them ridiculing the Democratic National Convention, and me ridiculing Bush as the worst president ever.

    If the U.S. ever put enough funding behind figuring out how to harness the energy in political arguments, the resultant surplus power overload will fry the grid.

    Hell, just O’Reilly, Limbaugh and Hannity alone would account for substantial additions to both electricity and natural gas…lots of natural gas…

    ..oh, and not a little methane.


  66. Joe the Philosopher says:

    Judas speaks. Takes notes, everyone.


  67. WAYNEBRO says:

    Matthew’s should have stopped him right there.

    That’s how they sell those lies.

    “strike again” implies they struck a first time, which is a lie.


  68. DanCaveman says:

    Yeah, we should all thank Bush for not being attacked since 2001. I guess Bush, Ari, and all the wackos can thank Clinton for not getting attacked from 1993-2001.

    Clinton was able to do it without getting 4,260 + US military personnel killed.
    Clinton was able to do it without getting over 31,000 Military personnel seriously wounded and maimed.
    Clinton did it without causing psychology damage and injuries to over 100,000 US Military personnel and tearing apart many families.
    Clinton did it without creating 4-5 million Iraqi refugees.
    Clinton did it without compromising all of the United State’s credibility.
    Clinton did it without torturing people!
    Clinton did it without violating our privacy

    THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!


  69. Zooey says:

    Thanks for the hat tip, Amanda. :-)

    Actually, we’re called “TheZoo” now.


  70. neoconsrscum says:

    Rucking Fetard.
    How long before FoKKKs “news” hires him.


  71. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    Yes, thanks, Amanda. And MsJoanne authored the post you linked to. And a fine post it is, too. :)


  72. Buckie Boy says:

    A Bush cretin spewing lies so the stupid people will repeat stupidity to their stupid friends…

    ….a vicious repeating circle of stupid….

    …kind of like reading Archie Blowsgoats posts.


  73. A simple man says:

    Saddam didn’t have anything to do with the 9/11 attacks. To me, as an American citizen, killing him off is completely irrelevant. Is Iraq a little safer now that hes gone? Arguably. Do I care? Not at all.


  74. youtube says:

    fleischer , why did you quit, even bush said there was no link between saddam and 09/11.


  75. dbearton says:

    Put him in jail for complicity to treason and war crimes.


  76. Jane E. Schneider says:

    For those who complained that Matthews didn’t call Ari on this bullshite line: haven’t you ever noticed that, more often than not, Tweety isn’t really paying attention to what the other person is saying, especially just before they’re going to go to a break. He’s listening to his earpiece, watching his monitor, more like he’s just waiting ’til the other person stops talking so that he can do his ‘thanks (whoever), when we come back…’ spiel. Supposedly he admitted that he didn’t even hear it, and found out from all the emails that he received afterwards.

    Oh, and, WAY TO GO, HONEY! :D


  77. milaninthesun says:

    But after September 11th, having been being hit once, how could we take a chance that Saddam Hussein might not strike again?

    All that comes to mind when I read this is a “bunch of wing
    nuts and clowns”! I can’t figure were honsty and pramatism come into play with these people. I am not an idiot or a looser Mr.Fleischer. After watching your adminstration put my country in a serious mess and reduce your party to a bunch of nitwits, I think you owe it to us to go home and shut-up.
    We will not give you the opportunity to rewrite history!


  78. christopher wiwi says:

    Weren`t the Anthrax attacks after 9/11?Funny how these guys forgot about it and it`s even funnier that they happened to two dems Leahy and Dashle who were going to vote on the Patriot Act.Go to hell Ari and the rest of the Bushco crime family.You have to hand it to them they gave Iraq democracy from the barrel of a gun.As i understand it the Iraqi Constitution has Sharia Law written into it,how`s that working out,not very good I`m sure,Sharia Law does not allow for democracy does it.


  79. miscellany101 says:

    In another life, Fleischer would probably be a Holocaust denier, he’s just that out of touch with reality.


  80. lvdragonlady says:

    Still touting the lies I see.
    They guys just have no flippin clue what so ever.



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