Posted on 06/17/2005 10:01:52 AM PDT by ken5050
I turn on the radio in the car the last 5 minutes of Imus' show this morning, and heard Imus and his sidekick, talking about how Chris Matthews..who I gather was a guest on the show today, had attacked Craig Crawford...the very annoying political commentator. Anyone hear it..know what happened. ..
FYI...I took your advice..we shall see..
Trolloing fo info here
ok, I'll be the first. who is Craig Crawford?
Am I remembering correctly that you sometimes listen or watch Imus? If you happened to hear this, maybe you can reply to Ken?
He's a smarmy southern dude..with either Roll Call or the Hill..glasses and a bowtie..
found this on Imus page
June 17, 2005
Craig Crawford of The Congressional Quarterly and Imus talk about the controversial statements made by Senator Dick Durbin regarding the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay military prison.
Imus: "On a serious question, was he (Senator Dick Durbin) dissing the troops or was he dissing the President's policy?"
Craig Crawford: "You know, all he was saying was that if you read the FBI report not knowing it was about a U.S prison, you would think that it was describing conditions at a prison in one of these other past dictatorial regimes. He was talking about the specific incidents that the FBI reported and described and was not talking about policy. ... I mean he was talking about the policy, but not about the troops as a whole. This is what has happened... You can't criticize anything about this war without being accused of not supporting the troops."
Would Chrissy get upset by someone that seems to be defending Durbin?
Thanks....
That comment by Crawford sounds like something that Chrissy would SAY!!!
Hmmmmmmmm...there has to be more, me thinks!!!
BTW, that weasel Crawford has gotten the talking points--I saw a dem spokesbabe on Fox a while ago, and she said the same thing.."He wasn't critisizing the troops, he was critisizing the POLICY"--
Yeah, right, actually it is the troops that are putting their lives on the line, even just guarding these monsters...!!!
Chris Matthews: "I have always been a person who has been very skeptical about the reason for this war in Iraq. I have never liked it. I always thought that the WMD, or whatever that was, was just a build up to something that really wasn't... I didn't think that they were going to fly a plane over here with nuclear weapons onto some balsawood plane. I never thought they were a strategic threat to us. I thought they were a pain in the neck and certainly worst of that in that region. I did not think they were a threat to us, and I wondered why we went to war without a really good single reason. Not fifty different reasons that keep changing, but one really good one. The people in this country, you know if you look at the polls, for the first time are saying it was a blunder. I think that is so interesting, and I think it is interesting to the Democrats, you say I'm hesitant about Craig Crawford, they are hesitant about everything! Where is their foreign policy? Would somebody tell me the Democrats' policy on foreign policy? Where is it? They don't say they are against the war, for the war... They are still back with John Kerry, I paid for the eighty-seven, I'm against the eighty-seven... Jackie Mason on O.J... walked through the blood or around the blood. I mean where are they? They reminded me of Jackie Mason on O.J.
I think I might have found it. Read post 10.
Wow..sounds like Chrissy had a hang-over this morning..
Maybe we will be lucky enough to have these two elitist bastards take each other out!
Is that what you were looking for?
Think so..great job of research..sounds like there might be more though..
So the 'rats are sort of saying that the guards at the Nazi death camps and the SS death squads were OK. It was the Final Solution that was the problem.
This is a long post and I don't remember where I got this. However, I think it's worth reading.
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"Iraq is a long way from USA but, what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"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 Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has invigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue a pace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies."
Letter to President Bush, Signed by Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL,) and others, December 5, 2001
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."
Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do"
Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002
"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 It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime . He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ..."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan.23.2003
That's because post Eisenhower Democrats lack big picture perception. Iraq may have had nukes to hand over (sometime) to a weapons delivery system known as Al Qaeda. Now we know for sure, and that is someting big to know. Iraq was also getting the cash to pay for Palestinian suicide bombers to torment Israel from the "oil-for-Food" program. Israel does have nukes and if the bombings continued or escalated, Israel would be forced to nuke Baghdad. The US invaded Iraq to limit nuclear weapons in the Middle East and to avoid mushroom clouds over a US city by Muslims, or a Muslim city by Israel.
"Why" the Democrats cannot understand the Iraqi invasion is that it is not political. Everything to a Democrat IS (?) political.
"... you would think that it was describing conditions at a prison in one of these other past dictatorial regimes."
NO YOU WOULD NOT. Because what Durbin failed to tell the public was that HE EMBELLISHED THE REPORT and that info came from someone in the FBI who knew what was in the report.
So .. not only was Durbin talking about CLASSIFIED MATERIAL during wartime .. he was making some of it up.
Thanks so much---I dislike the way the Chrissy uses Gitmo and Abu Ghraib to "gig" President Bush...but I have seen times that he has been almost as hard on dems...
I guess this is one...I just wish he would base ONE show around the mistakes and stupidity of the dems, instead of always making everything wrong in the world, be President Bush's fault...
BTW, thank you very much for finding that!!!
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