Posted on 06/03/2005 11:43:23 AM PDT by areafiftyone
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US media needs a modern-day "Deep Throat" within the administration of President George W. Bush to reveal how America was "misled" on Iraq, former presidential contender George McGovern said.
"We need someone like that who is highly placed to tell us what's really going on. We know that we were misled on Iraq," McGovern told Fox News Radio.
McGovern, a former senator, unsuccessfully ran against Richard Nixon for the White House in 1972.
Deep Throat, revealed this week as former FBI assistant director Mark Felt, acted as a source to The Washington Post newspaper, helping to bring down Nixon's presidency over the Watergate scandal in 1974.
"I wish there were somebody of the Deep Throat time in this administration who are aware of what's going on," McGovern told Fox News Radio.
"This war in Iraq, in my opinion is worse than anything Nixon did. I think Nixon deserved to be expelled from office in view of the cover-up that he carried on and the laws that he violated.
"But we have an administration in power now that led us to a war that is internationally illegal; it's a war that we are fighting with a country that has no threat to us that has nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks.
McGovern said Nixon was undoubtedly "tricky," but said of Bush: "This man claims to be Christian, following the will of God, and then he misleads the whole nation on a totally fraudulent enterprise in Iraq that we should have never been attached to."
Bill Clinton got his political feet wet driving McGovern around campaigning. How I wish they'd both had flat tires.
I think we could get Vitter to do that, he seems fearless..of course Mr. Pious would reply..."and when and what service did you server in Mr. Vitter?"
I was only a kid when Nixon and McGovern were running so I don't remember him that much. But I do remember the nutty hippies and freaks - scared the heck out of me when I was a kid. Must have been the stench!
Oh well, the Republican controlled house will NEVER vote articles of impeachment. They have more cajones over there than in the senate. Paging Tom DeLay...
**I noticed that the report is wholly ignored on the left. **
Probably because it destroys the meme that the intel and such was concocted day one of Bush II's reign, and that all the foreign intel thought there was WMD's too.
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Of course it is...it PROVIDES THE TRUTH, something the frothing, lying left cannot deal with.
The Democrats are so desperate they just invent anything and with the help of the MSM it would seem like the world is at its end. What a grave they are digging for themselves. So have fun CRATS, your day will come. I predict that in 2006 we will gain more good Republicans in the Senate and House. Also, the nutty McCain and his brown nose group, they will be replaced when their time for reelection comes. McCain is done. He has lost his marbles.
LOL Sorry about that.
I knew if I laid the ball out, someone would stroke it over the fence. ;0)
"Kerry already has a copy of the Downing Street Memo and because of the desperate begging by DUers will bring it up on the Floor of the Senate on Monday."
He can be defeated with two sharp actions:
1. "Mr. Kerry, haven't you read the intelligence report prepared by a bipartisan committee of this chamber describing the history of intelligence gathering on this matter?"
2. "Mr. Kerry, when you voted for war in 1998, the Iraq Liberation Act, you declared Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Do you believe the Clinton Administration lied to you as you accuse the Bush Administration?"
I doubt these will be pursued. The lefty meme about "fixing" intelligence has gained hold despite all evidence against. The "exaggerating intelligence" started in January 2003 by DNC talking points, perhaps influenced by French-hired PR firms seeking to avoid the war. The attack focused on the weakest link, the nuclear accusations, yet all the accusers, such as Joe Wilson, believed there were some WMD's - but didn't justify a war. The matter that the inside accusers of Bush believed there were WMD's anyway is an unstudied matter in the media, just like anything else about the US-Iraq relationship pre-Bush II.
Bush administration doesn't leak. It holds water. Eat our dust, McGovern. What a nasty old man he's turned out to be. Just like that nasty old communist Carter. I'll dance on both their graves if I have the good fortune to outlive them.
Yeah, no doubt. Clinton had a deep throat. Even lent a new name for it to the lexicon -- the Full Monica, and gave a new generation ammunition to say a blow job isn't sex. Not that boys didn't say it in our day to get a girl to perform.
I'm looking forward to a trip to do just that, if I live so long.
Seems like the liberals have had several people 'audition' for the job -- "Joe Wilson" leaps to mind. Speaking of which, how is it Joe Wilson has kept his behind out of prison?
So I guess they want Cheney as president? Oh yeah, that would be a big victory for them. Ha ha.
McGovern wants a new deep throat to bring down GWB. What do they need a mole for? They've already got the media doing that job every day!
If it hadn't been for the Nixon people's dirty tricks against Ed Muskie, maybe Muskie would have been the nominee in 1972 instead of McGovern. The American people were so determined that they didn't want McGovern as President that they ignored the Watergate story...would the same have been true if a more plausible nominee had been put forward by the Democrats?
In this one-handed excerize, the MSM is prepping to receive the revalation of the yet-to-be-unnamed source on the Iraq war. By the time they get done short-stroking this story, they will accept evidence that makes the Killian memos look like the work of a master forger. They want so very bad for this to be true, it will not take much to convince them.
If the loony left were to make a serious attempt to get Bush impeached do you suppose the Republican "moderates" would go along just to show their wonderful spirit of bipartisanship and collegiality? I suspect some would.
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