Posted on 03/12/2006 4:42:26 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
;-)
Well now. Just what we thought!
He also has a zipper problem, ala slick willie.
"(Russert dressed up as a blonde female reporterette at the Gridiron club last night!)"
Following in the hallowed footsteps of algore.
I don't know why the WH is not pushing the Saddam tapes out. It appears that the Prez wants to, but others have been dragging their feet (according to Hadley, there is some disagreement in the WH about releasing the tapes (see below). As I mentioned on a thread a few Sundays ago, the ABC Special Report on the same, omitted some very relevant data, so we can expect the MSM and Dims to do their usual spin job, once they are released. I heard Rep Hoesktra earlier this week and he's pushing for them all to be translated and released and, from the article below, it looks like Pence is, too, so maybe more will come out soon.
Bush wants to release the Saddam files but his intelligence chief stalls
THE WEEKLY STANDARD ^ | 03/20/2006 | Stephen F. Hayes
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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Selective coverage by biased media
Sun Sentinel ^ | March 10 2006 | James J. Pirretti
Posted on 03/11/2006 8:27:25 PM PST by demlosers
Where's the reporting on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program?
When President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, the gleeful liberal press reported daily on our lack of finding Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
However, two former Iraqi military leaders and tapes of Saddam Hussein and his cronies have recently painted a different story. Alas, other than one TV station, I have found no coverage of either the tapes nor these commanders' accounts. Is this yet another example of liberal bias in the media?
In tapes going back to 1995 -- four years after some liberals claim Hussein gave up his WMD program -- Hussein and his son-in-law were heard to boast that they fooled the U.N. inspectors. In a tape recorded in 2000, Saddam Hussein is heard talking about Iraqi scientists' efforts to build a nuclear device.
Further, Georges Sada, the No. 2 general in the Iraqi Air Force under Saddam Hussein, recently published a book, Saddam's Secrets. Not surprisingly, the liberal media conveniently overlooked this book. In his book, Sada states that prior to our invasion, Saddam Hussein smuggled biological and chemical weapons into Syria, using civilian airliners. Sada's account is corroborated by Ali Ibrahim al-Tikrit, the former Southern Regional Commander under Saddam Hussein.
One would think that if Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident deserved more than one week of commentary in the media,
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Saddam Translator: ABC Re-interpreted Tapes
Posted by areafiftyone
On News/Activism 02/17/2006 10:45:00 AM PST · 123 replies · 3,782+ views
NewsMax ^ | 2/17/06
The FBI translator who supplied the 12-hours of Saddam Hussein audiotapes excerpted by ABC's "Nightline" Wednesday night now says the network discarded his translations and went with a less threatening version of the Iraqi dictator's comments. "What you heard on ABC News was their translation," former U.N. weapons inspector Bill Tierney told ABC Radio's Sean Hannity on Thursday. "They came up with something different on a key element regarding terrorism in the United States," Tierney insisted.
Can you even imagine (in your nightmares) Joe Biden as Commander-in-Chief.......the man who has just declared that the war in Iraq has been ineptly fought?
Oh yeah. I caught a poster last night who never replied to me calling Mormons, "morons."
A real poll! Yeah, and election, the time all the gripers have a moment of sanity and vote for what's right.
They ARE very close. But I must admit, when I saw them speaking and that Council of Foreign Relations meeting, they BOTH sounded smarter than most of the politicians out there.
Thank you for the link, which I have bookmarked.
That needs to be said and repeated over and over. Thank you for saying it.
Nope ... because it will NEVER EVER happen
Why??
Because the loony left hate Biden way more then we do .. *L*
Great catch anita.
I have a friend who was from Penn.and had to deal with local politics. He said Penn. politics is even worse than Florida and parallels N.Y. or Calif.
President George W. Bush is joined by House and Senate representatives as he signs H.R. 3199, USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, Thursday, March 9, 2006 in the East Room of the White House. From left to right are U.S. Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo.; U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-NY; U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.; U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Majority Whip U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, R- Mo
"Don't you wish the Junk Journalists would one time, just ONE time, ask the clowns like Biden, "Ok Senator, what is the solution then"."
The dims wouldn't dare offer a plan since between now and election day, the parameters (polls) may change and they would be WRONG. Pubbies take the information available at the time and run, being perfectly willing to alter plans to fit any current data.
Do they?
Hey Mo, sorry to break in:
FYI, Ace went off and laid it out.
Case (Officer) Closed: Valerie Plame Was Not Covert, Not A NOC, Ever, Never Ever
http://ace.mu.nu/
I loved Buchwald until the Nixon thing came down.
His hatred of Nixon was akin to a lot of the Bush hatred going around today. I discovered you can't hate like that and still be funny. Nixon brought him down. He was never really funny again.
But I wish him well.
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