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.'"
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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 ....
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
Well at least we now know what their dang plan is
Though I'm thinking the voters won't like that plan
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).
ChadGore's post #105 ping
Then he should be tried for sedition. There is no excuse for saying such a treasonous thing, none!
Just finished sending the moron an email. Doubt he'll ever read it. But, I had to try.
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.
Wonder how much Rockefeller was paid from Saddam?
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.
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.
"" 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.
Bravo!!!!
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