Posted on 04/12/2006 10:28:37 PM PDT by YaYa123
The Bush administration yesterday denounced a Washington Post report that questioned the handling of postwar intelligence on alleged Iraqi biological weapons labs. A White House spokesman acknowledged that President Bush's assertions about the suspected labs were in error but said this was caused by flawed intelligence work rather than an effort to mislead.
Bush press secretary Scott McClellan criticized the article as "reckless" for what he said was an "impression" that Bush had knowingly misled the American public about the two Iraqi trailers seized by U.S. and Kurdish fighters weeks after the Iraqi invasion began. On May 29, 2003, Bush described the trailers in a television interview as "biological laboratories" and said, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."
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Personally, I think they are in full throated battle cry with our enemies and they have become a danger to the state.
All this recycled news designed to bash the President then days defending the lies and backhanded corrections and no coverage of the real news like the Saddam documents... :(
They definitely have an agenda of some sort.
In this instance, The Washington Post and ABCNews both accused Bush of intentionally lying about the trailers being WMD mobile labs. ABC's Martha Raddish has not apologized for her bald accusation made yesterday on Good Morning America, but on ABC News last night, in the last sentence of her report, she did concede
'' "The report went to the Defense Intelligence Agency and was not vetted for some time, but is is unclear why others didn't know about it or whether the president was told about it."
We'll never be able to trust the press as a whole again .. only selected real journalists who've consistently proven themselves to report, not make, the news.
Is this their response to the WH demand for an apology?
"They" only have one specific agenda; regain power, at any cost.
Nothing is sacred...our country, our President, our foundation.
The sick part is the thought of President Clinton #2 and watching her take a very predictable, extremely nauseating capitulative stance to our enemies...(excuse me, I think I threw up just a little bit).
I'm gonna leave the country if that happens. /sarc
Having to listen to her and read "glowing" stories of her for 4 years is something I definately do not want.
Bush has nobody to blame but himself for allowing the Marxist Media slander him for years without responding. The public perception of Bush and the War on Terror has been one large vacuum filled by this nation's enemies, here and abroad. Bush's failure to aggressively defend himself and our military campaign will go down in history as the most wimpish, feeble White House communication apparatus ever.
I haven't trusted them since they sold-out for Clinton. Now they make up news to destroy Pres. Bush. I can't even watch Fox News any more, it's a total waste of time.
One reason is that they smell weakness. They are emboldened. The President needs to call a press conference and tell the American people the media are liars. He can also criticize that hack Fitzgerald.
The line between giving credence to the moonbats and legitimately defending yourself isn't as fine as the White House makes it out to be. Their reliance on people being able to discern the truth is not working because the truth is fought against 24x7 by the other side.
It's got to extremely tiring to have to constantly fight a real war and a fifth column war. Certainly most of the Republicans in Congress are useless unlike the RATS who jump in front of a train for their own whether it's an ex-Klansman with a fondness for the N-word or an ex-President with a fondness for women in kneepads. That leaves the White House to mostly fend for itself, and they need to do a much better job of it.
The media almost frightens me at times. Their hatred for this administration and their deliberate lies are nothing short of psychotic. And until those lies are exposed, their power will remain unchecked.
This is one of the reasons why I wish freepers would return to what we do best. Activism. And I hope the administration starts calling the media on each of its lies.
Much of Bush troubles goes back to one of his campaign promises, not to engage in the nasty politics of personal destruction, and to live his religion. He sure kept his word! "Turning the other cheek" might help get him into heaven, but it's ruined his poll numbers.
Bush has never responded adequately to negative attacks. Certainly he's allowed many of them to take on a life of their own over many news cycles, before he corrects the record.
McClellan, even when quickly tamping down misinformation, and outright accusations, has been been timid, stuttered, and not forceful at all. And here another Bush good point has hurt him. "Loyalty" is a good thing, but Bush allowing McClellan to stay on the job has been a huge mistake. The White House press corps uses him for a punching bag.
Well, when it comes to Iraq, I think there were lies and definitely screw-ups. I don't know that Bush lied personally, but I think Cheney and Wolfowitz, and perhaps Rumsfeld too, oversold the rosy scenario for this war. The oil will pay for it? I think it was Cheney who said we KNOW he has nukes. McLellan himself said yesterday the intelligence was wrong. Ok, well, so doing what we did, based on crap intel, was a screw up. So I don't think it's that surprising for people to think that way, when the admin tends to agree with them. And Wolfowitz is long gone now. I'll be happy to have a new administration in the White House. Hopefully George Allen has better picks than GW had.
It's a war they seem to be winning. For all the talk of a "new media," the truth is that most Americans rely on snips of MSM propaganda as their one and only source of information about the world.
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