Posted on 04/22/2006 6:32:17 AM PDT by Andy5000
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Central Intelligence Agency warned US President George W. Bush before the Iraq war that it had reliable information the government of Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, a retired CIA operative disclosed.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
I guess the owners of the Dem/GOP farce think it is time for the old party flip-flop ploy. Watch the GOPers seek out every opportunity to self destruct. Government scripted like a Hollyweird soap opera; even the new stuff seems like reruns.
That contradicts what he said while in the CIA. Something like it all being a slam dunk.
I think they have a source for the story in much the same way that they had one for Rathergate. There are people who want to destroy the Bush administration and some of them are current or former members of the CIA. 9/11 was a failure of intelligence and the CIA must be held accountable for some of the blame along with the FBI and the Clinton administration, which failed to recognize the significance of the threat of AQ despite the fact that bin Laden declared war on the US in his 1996 fatwa.
Not to mention our allies including the UK, Germany, and France.
Then you are too young to remember Nixon. It was really much worse than with Bush since Nixon actually had something you could pin on him. Bush's only "crime" is to disagree with the liberal establishment on policy. Nixon had that "baggage" as well.
I hate that too...when everyone is out to get me....unerving and very distracting....
"Anyone" has a name, and it's name is Tyler Drumheller.
I'll bet his publisher is Simon & Schuster.
Stop making Bush a "victim". He has his presidency and an entire political party at his disposal and a strong support base in the 'new' media. It's more about what Bush has chosen to do with his power that is getting him into trouble.
Nope. 60 Minutes is in the business to hump left-wing drivel.
And will they discuss Mary McCarthy from the CIA who was just fired???
Only if she has a book criticizing the president.
More like the string-pullers are doing the choosing. This presidential caricature will fade away as many others with a pension from the people, a bonus from the makers, and all the favorable veneration that can be fabricated so future caricatures will be comfortable in assuming the roll.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1618067/posts
New PreWarDoc fits with Gwynne Roberts article about Iraqi nuclear test
Something quite strange is inferred by this document (jveritas initial translation) where the mass graves are to be examined for radiation still existing.
This is probably pretty close to the 'slam dunk' the CIA referred to.
The CIA, like State, is institutionally liberal. I don't know how State got that way, but in the case of the CIA, it goes back to WW-II, and the sorts of folks, (Ivy League types) who were recruited for OSS which (kinda sorta) became the CIA.
Tyler Drumheller (UPCOMING BOOK FOR SALE OF COURSE)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060874996/sr=8-1/qid=1145725005/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1215947-7178354?%5Fencoding=UTF8
What is his middle name?
I did a search on political moneyline. http://www.fecinfo.com/
Now CIA is in Virginia,
so I think this *MAY* be the same guy who contributed to democrats..........
23 . DRUMHELLER, TYLER S
6/9/2005 $500.00
VIENNA, VA 22182
BUSINESSMAN [Contribution]
MARK PRYOR FOR US SENATE
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24 . DRUMHELLER, TYLER S
5/11/2005 $300.00
VIENNA, VA 22182
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Maybe someone else better at this stuff can find more on this guy. I bet he is a Clintoon apointee too. Or at least climbed the ladder under Bubba.
I'm assuming, without reading the whole thread, that the Democrats who believed that Iraq had WMD has been posted here at least once.
The way they spoke after Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act was that Iraq was an imminent threat; Clinton even used those very words, as I recall. He also said that he "guaranteed" that Saddam would use those weapons and that he represented a threat to the region, the United States and indeed the world.
Hmmmm....
Did U.S. Bomb Sudan in Error?
Report alleges White House ignored warnings that Bin Laden and chemical weapons links were unproven
By TONY KARON
SUBSCRIBE TO TIMEPRINTE-MAILMORE BY AUTHOR
Posted Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1999
That damned factory in the Sudan keeps coming back to haunt the White House. The New York Times on Wednesday carried a detailed account of how the Clinton administration decided to bomb the Al Shifa chemical plant in 1998 despite warnings by senior intelligence and security personnel that there was insufficient evidence linking it to either Osama Bin Laden or the manufacture of chemical weapons. Under pressure from international protest and media inquiries, administration sources have backpedaled substantially on both claims since the August 1998 strike, which, together with a similar raid on Bin Laden's Afghanistan camps, was launched in retaliation for the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. But the Times report also carries allegations from U.S. officials that Secretary of State Albright encouraged State Department intelligence analysts "to kill a report being drafted that said the bombing was not justified."
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,33302,00.html
Maybe al Queda got word that Clinton Administration were going to strike with missiles. Why not move the chemical weapon out of the building and embarrass the United States.
It's been done before.
You are losing your composure; but then, did you ever have any.
I'm sorry but the facts don't match your hysterical emotional bombast. So either you are rabidly ignorant fool or an excessively arrogant liar? So which is it? Fool Or Liar?
I ask you the same, which is it?
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