Posted on 06/20/2005 1:25:27 AM PDT by auzerais
True. It is irrelevent whether the memo is real or a fake. I don't know why the idiots over there think it says anything particularly damning. It is an opinion of someone based on his observations. There are no facts in it at all.
Of course, if it is another TANG memo, it would be a little more delicious.
Even so, the tactic isn't likely to be effective in protecting the journalist or his sources.
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I don't think the journo ever really needed protection.
Then you don't understand British Law. He could spend years in the slammer if someone has the courage to go after him.
How much did Sen.Conyers little "it`s all Israels fault" make believe hearing cost the taxpayer.
It wasn't even a memo, it was an email.
Reporters, who never served in the military, and whose attitudes toward the services are colored by their pot-smoking college days have no sense of history.
The Pentagon, I am quite certain, has war plans against every nation on earth. It's not like we are about to start bombing Paris (although that might not be a bad idea), but imagine if some sort of seismic event occurred requiring action against France, and we didn't have plans for it. The same with the other 200 nations on earth.
With World War II looming the US had plans for war against Japan: Code Ornage. But, guess what, we also had plans for war against Great Britain: Code Red (and for dozens of other countries).
Having plans for war against Iraq was prudent and necessary. It is the reporter's lack of historical precedent and hatred for Bush that are driving this story.
Excellent points. What I do not understand though is what Michael Smith is trying to do - he supposedly has been in the military and is a long time defense correspondent. He has written a book on the breaking of the Japanese code in WWII. Is he simply looking for a payday? Or does he have T. E. Lawrence delusions? We clearly understood where Dan Rather was coming from. Where is Michael Smith coming from?
If my memory serves me somebody was passing off forged documents to prevent the US from dethroning old Saddam from the git go. Didn't the liberals the world over attempt to lay at the feet of the President using fake documents as premise for going to war????
If they were fake, they'd point more heavily toward "guilt" (Bush's guilt, of course). As they are, the memos reveal nothing.
Well, well, well.
It's getting air time because the Dems and their allies in the MSM need an "issue". My guess is that they regularly makeup stuff. The good news is that they have no credibility left.
I'm sure the definitive answer will be found here on FR.
Hear, hear!Worst problem we have is people's acceptance of journalism's fatuous claim of objectivit. Accept that, and you are conned into accepting a burden of proof which rightly belongs to them.
CBS's "independent investigation" concluding that the "TANG memos" could not be proved or disproved is really a "meaning of 'is'" defense. The story line should be that CBS published as true "memos" whose provenance it could not prove. And which are presumptively fraudulent.
Disturbing News.
The 2008 Democratic Nominee for president was
convicted for domestic violence, but got it hushed up.
Since I don't want to reveal my source, I had to
burn the original transcript of the confession,
however, I will eventually post my re-typed
copy of the confession.
Watch this space, for furthur developements.
Hey everyone, try this on your liberal friends/co-workers:
Tell them that if they can produce a copy of the ORIGINAL DSM then you will believe them and that Bush should be impeached.
But if they can't, then they have to admit that the DSM is fake and that they have to admit they were wrong about Bush.
Give them a day or two, then spring it on them that the ORIGINAL COPIES WERE DESTROYED (if they don't know it already).
It's like shooting fish in a barrel!
In short, it doesn't matter if these memos are fake or not. Their authenticity has nothing to do with the fact that the case for war was based on lies.
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