Posted on 03/11/2006 9:22:21 AM PST by kimosabe31
On February 16, President George W. Bush assembled a small group of congressional Republicans for a briefing on Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley were there, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad participated via teleconference from Baghdad. As the meeting was beginning, Mike Pence spoke up. The Indiana Republican, a leader of conservatives in the House, was seated next to Bush."Yesterday, Mr. President, the war had its best night on the network news since the war ended," Pence said."Is this the tapes thing?" Bush asked, referring to two ABC News reports that included excerpts of recordings Saddam Hussein made of meetings with his war cabinet in the years before the U.S. invasion. Bush had not seen the newscasts but had been briefed on them.
Pence framed his response as a question, quoting Abraham Lincoln: "One of your Republican predecessors said, 'Give the people the facts and the Republic will be saved.' There are 3,000 hours of Saddam tapes and millions of pages of other documents that we captured after the war. When will the American public get to see this information?
"Bush replied that he wanted the documents released. He turned to Hadley and asked for an update. Hadley explained that John Negroponte, Bush's Director of National Intelligence, "owns the documents" and that DNI lawyers were deciding how they might be handled.
Bush extended his arms in exasperation and worried aloud that people who see the documents in 10 years will wonder why they weren't released sooner. "If I knew then what I know now," Bush said in the voice of a war skeptic, "I would have been more supportive of the war.
"Bush told Hadley to expedite the release of the Iraq documents. "This stuff ought to be out. Put this stuff out."
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They all reside under the same roof....United Nations. That is the hive.
What threads are you on???
I would like to join...
I think the tapes would make Russia look the worst. Thats just my opinion from what I have heard so far from the tapes.
I agree with you...this all points to the fact that Negroponte was the Ambassador to the UN for TOO long!!
Oh, a bunch of them.
Later today I'm going to try and start a vanity thread and put it in activism.
It's time we stop fighting among ourselves and become activists again. It's probably a losing proposition, but...
This has been posted at least 3 times today and I've joined each thread. Not much feedback though. LOL
Yes. Have you heard if Norm Coleman has said anything about these tapes? I searched my bookmarks and didn't find anything about this subject in particular. I'll look again, I usually bookmark things concerning the OFF program.
I believe it was DoD assets that found this stuff, they would be the ones to declassify it.
Normally there are only a few reasons why something is classified. One, it will reveal intelligence sources and methods, or will reveal what we know about the other side(s) that they might not know we know. The other main reason is that it would reveal capabilities or vulnerabilities of our side. Everybody knows we have the stuff and how we got it, so those reasons are out. Clearly it also would not reveal anything out the capabilities of our own equipment.
It should never have been classified in the first place, assuming it even is, rather than just not being released to the public. Now analysis of it is another issue, but the documents themselves should be posted somewhere for everyone to see and draw their own conclusions.(Of course translation would be required, since likely they are in the Arabic of Iraq)
The same Russia that's helping Iran with their nuclear plans, yet, Negroponte doesn't want to 'EMBARRASS' them.
What allies besides the Brits and Aussies do we really have?
Poland, and there are others.
So9
I agree with you....if all of the energy used to fight with each other the last few weeks was used to contact our Congressweinies...we could have accomplished much more.
BUT, sometimes this forum is a good place for people to vent..but, it shouldn't be towards other freepers.
I hope your thread will allow some venting..there are a lot of things that freepers might need to vent about...and it would hit a chord with others, and then we can use that to plan our "attacks" on the people that DO affect our lives every day.
You are a beacon here at FR...keep on shining, Peach!
Not off hand...I would think he would be interested...
You might go to the Weekend Preview thread...there are a LOT of freepers that have a boatload of links on that thread..
Maybe if you asked there...someone will have it.
I will ping you...
Thanks, Txsleuth. I'm remember that Freepers were honored by the House Impeachment managers for their role in the impeachment proceedings. Freepers drove the agenda on that one and really provided a lot of support to the Impeachment Managers. The party was shown on C-Span.
I'd love to see us get back to research and activism; it's what we do best.
remember s/b remembering :-)
Too many FReepers put this list together for me to name individually.
His intel chief is not president, GET IT??
Thanks, I'll be waiting.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the 'allies' that Negroponte doesn't want released...will be in there. That thread is covered with links.
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