Posted on 11/06/2005 9:05:21 AM PST by doug from upland
Edited on 11/06/2005 9:47:26 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Nov. 6, 2005
Washington, D.C.
After many, many months of being a punching bag, the punching bag is ready to fight back. Republicans believe it is long overdue.
On FOX NEWS SUNDAY this morning, Brit Hume reported that he was told at the highest levels that the White House was finally going to engage the Democrats. They will be coming out with a defense of the war in Iraq.
On this forum and around the blogosphere, Republican loyalists have been wondering why the President has allowed the Democrats to get away with calling him a liar. There is a wealth of evidence justifying the war, including 500 tons of yellowcake uranium discovered in Iraq in March of 2003 at the nuclear research center of Al-Tuwaitha. 1.8 tons was enriched. That is not Betty Crocker yellow cake. Hussein wanted a bomb. And yet, a majority of our population does not even know about that find.
The Democrats are doing exactly what they said they would do in their secret memo that was captured by a Republican staffer. They are using the war for political purposes, while they are pretending it is not for political purposes.
If the President will light a fire under his team, support for the war will increase, perhaps dramatically. The President owes it to the troops who have sacrificed and to those who are still out there risking their lives everyday. Step up, Mr. President.
It is time to stuff it down the throat of that drunken, lady-killing slob. Come on Dubya, pull the trigger.
But time is running out to respond. He has to stop their momentum before it is out of control and cannot be stopped.
Well eithr way. He is a brilliant man. That's what the left can't stand. I mean look at all he has done when he was supposed to be so dim bulb. Then look at Corzine not knowing the drinking age in his own state???????????????? Look who's the dim bulb and....Corzine is only ONE OF MANY.
Well eithr way. He is a brilliant man. That's what the left can't stand. I mean look at all he has done when he was supposed to be so dim bulb. Then look at Corzine not knowing the drinking age in his own state???????????????? Look who's the dim bulb and....Corzine is only ONE OF MANY.
only he should recognize a lie. He sure told his share, didn't he? An American disgrace.
The Democrats are a collection of sewer turd groups.
God help us if these extremists ever get back in power.
Amen! Time to call a spade a spade. They have turned tail and run during two wars now. Go after them with hard with the truth and talk about their being traitors within our nation every time a Republican gets on the air. Make people really think about what they have been doing for the last 4 years and whether it has helped us or our enemies in our war effort.
And it won't do any good now either. It is like always...they allow the Democrat machine dig the talons in deep to a public that isn't paying any more attention than catching the repeated mantra about Bush over and over and over as they flit by the set or turn the channel.. up to the last comedian on t.v. at night.
Does the Administration think by writing out things on note cards that Pres. Bush can read, they can stop the Media from what they are doing? NAME ME ONE NETWORK OTHER THAN FOX..that will give voice to any Conservative voice !
And then tell me that they will go hot and heavy and say it over and over and over ..until the last comedian at night turns TOWARD the Right.
It is going to take a miracle. How about joining some of us in prayer................
I was mainly agreeing with you for what you said. ok ?
All of this chatter about a CIA coup is and has been known intimately by Fitzgerald for more than a year. He has been rifling through all of this intelligence and doing quite a bit of work chasing down the substance of the forged Nigerian purchase documents. He has license to go after anyone in this whole affair. You would think a CIA coup attempt with deliberate breaches of US National security would at least merit a passing look.
I personally think we are in the eye of the Hurricane. I think that the Dems were so eager about Fitzmas because they interpreted all of this investigation was about the President's supposed dissembling and their dreams of fraud. But, thats not what happened. Now they are thinking.. mmm.. why was Fitzgerald chasing all of this stuff down for two years.. it doesn't make sense. Just like the conservatives are collectively scratching their heads.
Now, despite all of the fingers starting to point at the CIA as the source and primary culprit in both the poor intelligence and the attempted coup, its interesting that another devastating CIA leak shows up to damage the US war effort. We have the Dems on record as conspiring to bring just this sequence of events into being, and a President that seems determined not to say anything, except Fitzgerald is conducting a serious investigation.
One has to remember that Bush put Libby and Rove in the jeopardy that they faced. No president before him ever declared open season on his own staff who might leak to the press. He did this by insisting that they sign a waiver of confidentiality for their contacts with the press as a condition of employment.
Miller's statements of how this amounted to coercion seems to be a whole lot more clear minded now then they did when she was languishing in jail. But, Bush has a clear purpose in this, I believe. To clean his skirts so to speak so when he does pull the sword of justice, it doesn't come back to bite him.
Perhaps this is all so much wishful thinking, perhaps in his second term, Bush has become timid and lost. But, its hard to bet on this. Libby was talking to Miller about the CIA conspiracy in August of 2003, part of the discussions that have landed him in such hot water. This is before the president directed the appointment of a special counsel. One supposes the existence of a possible CIA conspiracy against the United States of America would rise to the level of a Presidential briefing. This special prosecutor was appointed in December of 2003. This means that the White House had 6 months to consider making an appointment to chase a crime that had never been prosecuted successfully in the past. George Tenet resigned on June 3, 2004, six months after this probe began, after Fitzgerald requested authorization to expand his probe.
Now granted, the White house was busy with a reelection campaign. But the facts about Wilson were already clear inside the administration in July and August of 2003. Wilson was a loud mouth Democrat operative sent to Niger by the CIA at the suggestion of his wife with a loose mission to Niger to seemingly create the opportunity to shift blame for the pre-war intelligence failures of the CIA to the White House. Creating the false alternate story that the CIA was not providing bad intelligence, but instead the White House somehow made up all of this bad intelligence and sold it to the public. Funny how this LIE has seemingly become the central tenant of belief of the Democratic Party to the point that they are attempting any ploy, any means to shore up this silliness. And this being despite, the fact that this bad intelligence such as it was bad, and that still isn't proven, predated the current administration by a DECADE.
Now several commentators have come out pointing out that its the CIA's MO to topple administrations and governments effectively. (this is also yet to be proven) And that this is why George Bush seems to be on the ropes despite supposedly being in control of this bunch of rogues. And this could be the case, but, alternatively. Bush has had Porter Goss in the CIA causing howls of pain and disgust by these same rogues, quietly, silently cutting head after head as it were.
Part of the reason this isn't done out in the light is that, frankly, the operation and control of the CIA is secret. So wresting control of the CIA has to be done alot in secret. But, in the public, part of this drama has also been in the limelight and the Democratic Party apparatus has been hip deep in the affair. So when the President and the government wade into this bunch with special agents of the FBI, it has to be clear first that the President isn't exempt from the law, that this action isn't the president seeking to use the FBI and Justice Department to bring down prominent Dems because they oppose him, but instead because they broke the law..
And thus, Scooter Libby becomes a sacrificial lamb, perhaps not by design, but by the fact that he was allowed to be. Because so much that is more important is at stake.
In my opinion the tar baby story this weekend is about the White House ethics conference - the news people are saying they need it, but I think it is a lead up to getting anyone who leaks inside CIA or State Dept brought up on legal charges that will mean jail time. GWB is a great poker player and he learned about how to spot a leak form one of the greatest GOP campaign guys of all time.
In the end, history has absolved President Reagan of most of what his critics flailed him with at the time...while also making clear failures that we often forget and certainly did not identify at the time—namely tepid SCOTUS picks and ME capitulation. I believe that President Bush will be viewed in a similar light twenty or thirty years from now. Beloved personally, a successful ME policy in Iraq...and mistakes relating to things we can not anticipate right now.
As another Freeper call this "President Bush's Don Regan episode." I think that sums it up rather nicely.
Sometimes I get caught up in the hype of all the commotion and forget how the president wins. He allows the left and his critics to wear themselves out with their latest claims and then he comes in to respond and restores the confidence that appeared to have eroded.
I hope he doesn't fail us on this one. Meirs caused a lot of head scratching.
Polly, You speak with wisdom that many of us often lose sight of in defending our beliefs.
I'll have to work on that kinder side of myself when it comes to defending President Bush.
Damn straight it did. So did his quick jump to take the blame for the mess in NOLA.
Much rides on Bush's response to this attack of shameless falsehoods... it will affect ANY candidate the Republican party nominates to take on the foul swinette from Chappaqua.
In short, NOT to set the record straight on Iraq & the Plame/Wilson/CIA/DNC/MSM collusion is to give them the White House in 2008.
Let's not forget about 2006. If the DemocRATS are successful in this strategy and have a miracle like the GOP had in 1994, the DemocRATS in the House will bring articles of impeachment. Count on it.
Churchill
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