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JAY [Rockefeller] SAYS America safer WITH SADDAM in power
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Posted on 09/09/2006 3:35:56 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous

Edited on 09/09/2006 4:55:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

(CBS) When the Senate Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of its findings this past week, the Republican chairman of the committee, Pat Roberts, left town without doing interviews, calling the report a rehash of unfounded partisan allegations.

Its statements like this one, made Feb. 5, 2003, by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell that have become so controversial, implying Iraq was linked to terror attacks.

"Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associated collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda lieutenants," Powell said.

But after 2 1/2 years of reviewing pre-war intelligence behind closed doors, the lead Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.), who voted for the Iraq War, says the Bush administration pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.

"The absolute cynical manipulation, deliberately cynical manipulation, to shape American public opinion and 69 percent of the people, at that time, it worked, they said 'we want to go to war,'" Rockefeller told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. "Including me. The difference is after I began to learn about some of that intelligence I went down to the Senate floor and I said 'my vote was wrong.'"

Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq — even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.

He said he sees that as a better scenario, and a safer scenario, "because it is called the 'war on terror.'"


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; appeaser; iraq; iraqwar; moonbats; prodictator; rockefeller; saddamhussein; saddamite; westvirginia
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To: Armedanddangerous

Jay is to Saddam as Smithers is to me.
101 posted on 09/09/2006 5:17:52 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: Mo1


You're on a roll.
Bookmark this thread.


102 posted on 09/09/2006 5:18:17 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" 10% are fundamentalists, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: Nick Danger

Nick, great point, Dims should make this their platform, we'll cut and run and bring back Saddam!

I'd send this to O'Reilly to let him know the Dims finally have a plan.....but, then the Dims would cry and Fox News would have to edit the program ....


103 posted on 09/09/2006 5:18:54 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: Armedanddangerous
Is this the same Jay Rockefeller who said Saddam was an IMMINENT THREAT to the United States?
104 posted on 09/09/2006 5:19:39 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
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To: Armedanddangerous

Saddam:
I'm bored!


Saddam:
I've got an idea! Let's play a game of Rock Paper Scissors!


This Guy:
Can I Play?


Saddam:
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Saddam:
Will I choose Rock


Saddam:
Paper


Saddam:
Or Scissors


Saddam:
YOU DON'T KNOW!


Watban Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti:
Dude, say it, don't spray it


Saddam:
WHATEVER. Let's play


Saddam: ROCK!
Judge: TWO PAPERS!


Saddam:
DUDE, DOUBLE YOU TEE EFF is two papers?


Judge:
Two papers are better. Two papers cover the rock TWICE. That fucking rock ain't going NOWHERE


Saddam:
I've got your two papers RIGHT HERE. NOW PLAY SERIOUS, ASS


Judge: ONE PAPER!
Saddam: TIGER HAND! RAWR!!!!! RAWRR! rar. Hahaaa, hi. Tiger Hand. Come on! You Know! ... You don't know Tiger Hand?
Tiger Hand beats paper. Like totally beats paper. Always


Saddam:
Ask Aziz, he knows


Aziz:
Tiger Hand always beats paper


Saddam:
I'm sayin' bro!


Judge:
Okay, fine. "Tiger Hand" beats paper. Whatever you say Saddam. No more Tiger Hand


Saddam:
HEY, CRY ME A RIVER, DUDE. IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU DON'T KNOW TIGER HAND


Judge:
Well, You should have picked honesty, then you may not have blown it


Saddam:
You probably don't even know Pen Missile


Judge:
Missile? What Missile?


Saddam:
NYERMMMM. PEN MISSILE!!!!


Judge:
Okay fine, I'm not playing anymore. There is no TIGER HAND and there is no PEN MISSILE. You're just MAKING SHIT UP


Saddam:
AM NOT


Judge:
Are too


Saddam:
That's it, you're going on my list

105 posted on 09/09/2006 5:20:32 PM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: 4integrity
Nick, great point, Dims should make this their platform, we'll cut and run and bring back Saddam!

Well at least we now know what their dang plan is

Though I'm thinking the voters won't like that plan

106 posted on 09/09/2006 5:21:17 PM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: mainepatsfan
There may have been some heavy bombings there in retaliation, but why do I think they would have been made in deserted area's of barren desert just to make it look like clinton was doing something and to look good to those who didn't know any better.
107 posted on 09/09/2006 5:22:56 PM PDT by AmeriBrit ( What happened to 'Able Danger'? and which Clinton has all the missing FBI files?)
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To: onyx
Roberts Rakes Rockefeller
American Spectator ^ | Jed Babbin

108 posted on 09/09/2006 5:24:11 PM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

And, how many Dims state that President Bush said Saddam was an 'imminent threat'...and he never said so.

Next time one of these Dims say this on TV, the Administration should DEMAND the TV network correct the record so the public is provided with accurate info (maybe hire Clinton's lawyer).


109 posted on 09/09/2006 5:30:47 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: ChadGore; martin_fierro

ChadGore's post #105 ping


110 posted on 09/09/2006 5:32:00 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: Armedanddangerous

Then he should be tried for sedition. There is no excuse for saying such a treasonous thing, none!


111 posted on 09/09/2006 5:34:08 PM PDT by ladyinred (Bill Clinton, you are a dirt bag!)
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To: Armedanddangerous

Just finished sending the moron an email. Doubt he'll ever read it. But, I had to try.


112 posted on 09/09/2006 5:45:57 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier)
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To: Armedanddangerous
TRAITORS & THUGS IN THE US SENATE

113 posted on 09/09/2006 5:46:40 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: Armedanddangerous

Between Rocky and Bobby Byrd....W.Virginia is in SAD SHAPE...

I wish someone would put him on TV and wave that "secret" memo in his face....where he PLOTS to do just what he did yesterday on the Senate floor.


114 posted on 09/09/2006 5:47:40 PM PDT by Txsleuth (,((((((((ISRAEL)))))) Pray for the release of the Israelis.)
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To: BusterBear

Wonder how much Rockefeller was paid from Saddam?


115 posted on 09/09/2006 5:48:14 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier)
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To: Armedanddangerous

He could probably make a good case to support that. But it's irrelevant. We DID remove Hussein. Now we need to finish the job in Iraq. Bickering over this crap is of little value now. Well, I guess it's of great political value to his kook Demagogue Party base, but it's of little practical value.


116 posted on 09/09/2006 5:49:27 PM PDT by Axhandle
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To: muawiyah

This from the jackass that admitted that he warned Syria, etc. about the plans to get rid of Saddam Hussein. This from the raving lunatic whose staff drafted the "get Bush at all costs" memo prior to the 2004 election.
He truly belongs to the party of the jackass.


117 posted on 09/09/2006 5:51:39 PM PDT by Chickenhawk Warmonger (All aboard the Chickenhawk Express... www.chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com)
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To: onyx; Mo1
When Rockefeller made the fleeting trip to the ME right before the start of the war, besides leaking the information of the Presidents plan to attack to Iraq so they could get rid of the WMD's etc., wasn't the other country he told Syria?

http://www.2la.org/syria/
118 posted on 09/09/2006 5:58:26 PM PDT by AmeriBrit ( What happened to 'Able Danger'? and which Clinton has all the missing FBI files?)
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To: goldstategop

"" I just wish it was hating President Bush but they also hate their country. That much is clear.""

You are ABSOLUTELY correct!!!!!! The traitors hate America and are doing everything in their power to destroy our country.


119 posted on 09/09/2006 6:03:17 PM PDT by Pepper777
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To: omega4179

Bravo!!!!


120 posted on 09/09/2006 6:05:07 PM PDT by Pepper777
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