Posted on 04/03/2006 8:31:26 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
Answering Arianna Huffingtons 20 Questions
1.) Last week, you insisted: "I didn't want war. To assume I wanted war is just flat wrong... it's simply not true." Yet source after source after source suggests otherwise, including your former Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neil, who has said that invading Iraq was a goal set out at your first National Security Council meeting, just ten days after your inauguration: "It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this.'" Mr. President, is Paul O'Neil lying?
Answer- Arianna there are consequences to Saddam thwarting Resolution 1441 that the U.N. enacted. Remember President Clinton was Commander and Chief over Desert Fox. Where is your criticism there?
2.) Despite the fact that dozens of Iraqis a day are dying in sectarian violence, you continue to insist that Iraq is not in a civil war. How many dead Iraqis per day would it take before you'd be willing to concede that civil war has broken out?
Answer- Arianna even Iraqis realize that most of the insurgents are outsiders along with Al Qaeda trying to cause a civil war. Its a shame that the insurgents and the mainstream media have the same agenda.
3.) Speaking of civil war, your Iraq-is-not-a-civil-war assessment was directly contradicted by former prime minister Ayad Allawi, a man whose credibility you considered unimpeachable in 2004, saying: "He's a brave, brave man... You can't change the dynamics on the ground if you've criticized the brave leader of Iraq." Has your opinion of him changed now that he's no longer saying what you want to hear?
Answer-Arianna You might consider Cindy Sheehan a brave person but that doesn't make her right either. Just remember how many people in Iraq showed up to vote with purple fingers.
4.) Allawi has said: "We are losing each day, as an average, 50 to 60 people through the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is." Do you think this is something you might discuss with God next time you speak?
Answer- Arianna how many Kurds did Saddam kill and also are you lumping terrorists in with Sunnies and Shiites into your death stats.
5.) You have steadfastly supported Secretary Rumsfeld, recently claiming: "He's done a fine job." Just how bad would things have to get before you'd be willing to downgrade that to "a so-so job"? What, in your eyes, would you consider "a really crummy job"?
Answer-Arianna ask the US troops how Secretary Rumsfeld is doing. You wouldn't know success in Iraq if it jumped up and bit you in your fat ass.
6.) You have indicated that you now believe that there will be American troops in Iraq until at least 2009, saying the decision about withdrawing all U.S. forces will be made by "future presidents and future governments of Iraq." Given that, do you now feel that your May 2003 Mission Accomplished moment, during which you claimed "major combat operations in Iraq have ended," was a tad premature?
Answer- Arianna during President Bush's State of the Union Address he stated the war against terrorism could take many years. Iraq is the first step.
7.) Was the flight suit you wore intentionally one size too small?
Answer- Arianna stupid question "Next"
8.) Yes or no, are we building permanent military bases in Iraq? If yes, how many?
Answer- Arianna do you really want our enemies to know our exit strategy "do ya?" Arianna if you look to the right and left of Iraq you have Syria and Iran. Both countries are the current largest supporters of terrorism.
9.) Total U.S. expenditures on the Iraq war have now been pegged at $320 billion. Assuming the war had never happened, what would we have done with that money?
Arianna- Answer Its well worth it and if we didn't spend it democrats would of wanted it for entitlement programs. How much did 9/11 cost?
10.) No one died as a result of Watergate, but thousands have died to rid the world of an imminent threat that wasn't. Will history declare your administration's actions in the lead-up to the war in Iraq a greater scandal than Watergate?
Answer-Arianna "imminent threat that wasn't." You need to read Stephen F. Hayes 17 question on the Docex Project.
11.) You and several members of your administration have repeatedly said members of Congress saw "the same intelligence" as you did before the invasion. But in the Sept. 21, 2001 PDB, you were told that there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11th attacks. And yet you never gave this information to Congress. Do you still believe they saw "the same intelligence" you did?
Answer-Arianna you need to read Laurie Mylroies testimony to the 9/11 Commission and comments made by Mansoor Ijaz who were both Clinton Advisor's that have established clear links between Saddam and 9/11.
12.) In your opinion (as opposed to Halliburton's), has there been war profiteering in the Iraq war? Do you know how many billions have gone unaccounted for? Are you even curious?
Answer-Arianna liberal drivel "Next". Halliburton would of been hired if a democrat were President during this war because they are the best nation re builders we have.
13.) Do you agree with Harry Truman that war profiteering is treason?
Answer- Arianna do you mean like the Oil for Food Scandal?
14.) You have said America has no choice but to remain in Iraq to prevent Al Qaeda from using the country as a terrorist base. Would you say Al Qaeda's presence in Iraq has increased or decreased since we invaded?
Answer- Arianna read about Salman Pak then get back to us on that question. Lots of documentation showing Zarqawi in Iraq before the war started.
15.) You claimed, in September 2002, that "you can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror." Did you really mean this?
Answer- Arianna read about Operation Able Danger, The Docex Project and Salman Pak. Its like this quote "And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no pr oven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?" -- Dennis Miller on Hannity & Colmes.
16.) Can you not differentiate between a group of evil ultraradical Islamic fundamentalists who carried out the September 11 attacks and an evil secular nationalist who, despite the frantic efforts of your administration, has in no way been directly linked to 9/11?
Answer- Arianna once again read Laurie Mylroie
"MYLROIE: You can demonstrate to the high legal standard of beyond a reasonable doubt, which is used for criminal conviction, that Iraq was behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, by showing that Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of that bomb, was an Iraqi intelligence agent. I do that in "Study of Revenge." That bomb, in 1993, aimed to topple the north tower onto the south tower. Eight years later, someone came back and finished the job. Since Iraq was behind the first attack, it is suggestive of the point that Iraq was behind the second attack."
17.) Given that you claim intelligence about Iraq was not manipulated, was intelligence that suggested Iraq didn't have WMD as welcome as intelligence that suggested it did? Could an intelligence official who brought you the former expect to advance as quickly as one who brought you the latter?
Answer- Arianna history shall answer that question and your on the wrong side of history. Saddam already had and used WMD's on his own people. We found plenty of toys Saddam should not of had that broke with the U.N resolutions
18.) You've said it is "preposterous" to claim that the diversion of troops and equipment to Iraq had anything to do with the government's delayed response to Hurricane Katrina, but a secret Pentagon report and the head of the National Guard say otherwise. Were people suffering and dying in Louisiana and Mississippi because so many of our National Guard members and so many billions of tax-payer dollars were diverted to Iraq?
Answer- Arianna your type would blame President Bush if California fell into the ocean. Those people lived in a soup bowl just like California is on the San Andreas Fault. Many didn't leave when they were told while local government failed to evacuate.
19.) Given that you've made the Iraq war a top priority of your administration, have you ever discussed military service with your daughters? How would you feel if they enlisted?
Answer- Arianna President Bush I'm sure respects what ever decision his daughters make for themselves. Some people believe that protecting their country and freedom is still worth fighting for.
20.) More than 2,300 American soldiers have been killed and over 17,000 wounded since the Iraq war began. Care to predict what these numbers will be at the end of the "long, hard slog"?
Answer- Arianna Ask that question to our troops that are doing a great job. Most of our military feel the liberals in the mainstream media have failed at doing their job creating sloppy thinkers such as yourself.
what? leftist jihadi-symps behave disingenuously and censor opposition voices? perish the thought!
It's her blog.......
Ariana is an unreconstructed Stalinist isn't she?
And a Benedict Arnold
Zsa Zsa Huffington's site is not worth wasting time on....
Even the DUers don't dote on Huffington ~ they tolerate her to be sure ~ but they don't dote.
Good answers! Huff-n-puff like most of the left doesn’t care to believe the answers that are simplest and true. The "law" of Occam's Razor need not apply where they are concerned. They may be applying a bastardized version of the law where the most limited observations and thoughts are almost always wrong. lol
Why bother with this super twit? arghhhhhhhhh
She is a mess.
People might actually think she knows what she is talking about.
You're not on yet. I would be shocked if your answers show up, but you did a nice job with them.
Thank you
It might help if the left even cared about researching anything. Two sides is for fascists like us.
"Here the country had finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they don't want to fight it. They would have, except it would put them on the same side as the United States."
Minor grammatical criticism here: I think the MSM has done a brilliant job creating sloppy thinkers. In fact, sloppy thinkers are all they produce. I think you mean:
Most of our military feel the liberals in the mainstream media have failed at doing their job, and have instead created sloppy thinkers such as yourself.
I have created a valid log in name and password at huff&puff. It even stated when I completed the post "your post will show up shortly."
If anyone else would like to create a valid log in and try it again be my guest.
Sorry my last post was meant to all and not to myself. I need to get some sleep.
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