Rockefeller, et al are just living large while the ship goes down.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/25/1017004766310.html

That sounds like support of terrorism to me.

The web of Communists.

Senator Joe McCarthy was right.

Wake up, Neo…

Hey Bigfoot, I really should be faster with those quotes. I’ve got them practically memorized by now.

DrSteve on June 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM

Well Steve, you know what they say about great minds. I keep my linked page bookmarked, just so I can bring up those quotes.

Meanwhile, we must all remember that Karl Rove is not merely a magnificent bastard, but a magnificent time-travelling bastard.

Henry Waxman, of course, will still be investigating Carl Rove.

pompous fool.

I don’t know what if anything a report like this will accomplish, but it would seem to me that it would be difficult to prove deliberate deception on the part of the Bush administration and just stupidity on the part of the Democrats. I guess that is what they are saying.

Granted, once in an interview, Cheney said it was “pretty well confirmed” that Atta had been in Prague. But he said that in DECEMBER 2001.

By SEPTEMBER 2003, Cheney was saying “we just don’t know” if it happened.

It’s astonishing how dishonest the report is in this regard.

Here’s the truth of the episode:
TheMediaReport.com: September 2006

Screw the left.

Bill Clinton, 17 February 1998, the Pentagon

“The risks that the leader of a rogue state can use biological or chemical weapons on us or our allies is the greatest security risk that we face.”

Madeleine Albright, 18 February “Town Hall” meeting in Ohio

“I think the main thing I want to say to you is, people can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons. We might have destroyed them in ‘98. We tried to, but we sure as heck didn’t know it because we never got to go back in there.”

Bill Clinton, Larry King, 22 July 2003.

So I guess Bush’s deceptions began way before was he even elected president. He somehow managed to deceive the Clinton administration and all those members of Congress (many of which were Dems) that were yapping about Saddam and how he was such a threat.

I keep wondering about that, too.

For example:

“In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members…”

Senator Hillary Clinton, 10 Oct 2002. Those “four years” must go back to 1998, when her husband was president.

“People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.”

Bill Clinton, on Larry King Live 22 July 2003.

“No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.”

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speech at Ohio State University, 18 Feb 1998.

“Dear Mr. President: … We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.”

Letter to President Clinton from numerous Senators, of both parties 9 Oct 1998.

These and many other examples are listed here.

had a partnership

As opposed to providing “direct operational support”? But what’s the difference? I don’t know and you don’t either! What constitutes “a partnership” anyway?

As for Bush’s amazing time-traveling deceptions:

UNSCOM report on material balances (1999)

“We know for a fact, physical evidence, soil samples of VX precursor–chemical precursor at the site. Secondly, Wolf, direct evidence of ties between Osama bin Laden and the Military Industrial Corporation–the al Shifa factory was part of that. This is an operation–a collection of buildings that does a lot of this dirty munitions stuff. And, thirdly, there is no evidence that this precursor has a commercial application. So, you combine that with Sudan support for terrorism, their connections with Iraq on VX, and you combine that, also, with the chemical precursor issue, and Sudan’s leadership support for Osama bin Laden, and you’ve got a pretty clear cut case.”

Ambassador Bill Richardson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer,” August 30, 1998.

“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has 10 times since 1983.”

Sandy Berger, Clinton NatSec Advisor.

cntrlfrk on June 5, 2008 at 1:08 PM

Ahem.