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With Malice Toward Cheney
NRO on line, the corner ^ | Friday, October 23, 2009 | Peter Wehner

Posted on 10/27/2009 8:16:16 AM PDT by april15Bendovr

If you want to witness a massacre on television, take at look at this debate on MSNBC’s Morning Joe between Joe Scarborough and Lawrence O’Donnell over Dick Cheney, Iraq, and weapons of mass destruction. Scarborough uses an avalanche of facts to bury O’Donnell’s contention that Dick Cheney lied about WMD and based the case for war on a “wild guess.”

In addition to all the sources Scarborough cited and who claimed Saddam Hussein possessed WMD — including leading Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards, and more — you could add the intelligence agencies of virtually every nation in the world, including those who opposed the Iraq War.

As for O’Donnell’s assertion that none of the members of Congress Scarborough mentioned had access to the information Dick Cheney had: It is simply false. Mr. O’Donnell may be unfamiliar with something called the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which is considered the authoritative judgment of the intelligence community. The NIE that was produced in October 2002 was available to every member of Congress — and among its key findings was this:

We judge that Iraq has continued its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs in defiance of UN resolutions and restrictions. Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles with ranges in excess of UN restrictions. If left unchecked it probably will have a nuclear weapon within this decade.

As Factcheck.org put it, “The NIE . . . says pretty much what Bush and his aides were saying about Iraq’s weapons.”

The Washington Post pointed out what should have been obvious to O’Donnell: “Congress was entitled to view the 92-page National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq before the October 2002 vote.”

In addition, both the Senate Intelligence Committee, in a report adopted unanimously by both Republican and Democratic members, as well as the so-called Silberman-Robb report found (in the words of the latter), “no evidence of political pressure to influence the Intelligence Community’s pre-war assessment of Iraq’s weapons program.”

In other words, Lawrence O’Donnell is thoroughly ignorant; the charges he made were completely and demonstrably false. And they were clearly driven by malice. For Joe Scarborough to have publicly exposed such an angry ideologue was a public service. And for Lawrence O’Donnell, it was a public embarrassment.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cheney; iraq; oldnews; rehashing; vpcheney; wmd; wot
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To: april15Bendovr

I’m sure I’m just being crazy and paranoid, but when I click on that link all I get is a debate segment about health care and Harry Reid, no mention of Cheney, Iraq, Bush, WMD, etc.


21 posted on 10/27/2009 9:06:13 AM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: ravingnutter
“Last month Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.”

It would be interesting to see what kind of info the Israeli intelligence has on the topic.

22 posted on 10/27/2009 9:08:02 AM PDT by april15Bendovr (Free Republic & Ron Paul Cult = oxymoron)
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To: ottbmare

Which link


23 posted on 10/27/2009 9:10:09 AM PDT by april15Bendovr (Free Republic & Ron Paul Cult = oxymoron)
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To: Tribune7
Lawrence O’Donnell is a creepy liar.

A week or so ago, Larry was badgered by Mika and Joe over Charlie Rangel. In response, Larry repeated over and over, "Charlie's a great guy."

24 posted on 10/27/2009 9:13:37 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: ottbmare
Soros runs Google-video and Youtube so anything strange could happen to conservative videos.
25 posted on 10/27/2009 9:14:31 AM PDT by april15Bendovr (Free Republic & Ron Paul Cult = oxymoron)
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To: april15Bendovr

And that is why neither Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow ever allow a conservative, even one as weak as Scarbourough, on their shows.


26 posted on 10/27/2009 9:17:49 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: devistate one four

Everyone also forgets that Hans Blix filed a report saying that Saddam was “in material breach” of the UN resolutions which itself was a justification for war. When I say “everyone” that includes Blix himself who came out against the war. Scumbag.


27 posted on 10/27/2009 9:23:51 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: ottbmare

That’s all I get as well.


28 posted on 10/27/2009 9:25:40 AM PDT by oldteen
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To: oldteen; ottbmare

I have checked these links on my other computers without logging onto Freerepublic and they show up.

I have no idea why a link of Hillary shows up on anyones computer talking about health care?

That is what you see?


29 posted on 10/27/2009 9:45:07 AM PDT by april15Bendovr (Free Republic & Ron Paul Cult = oxymoron)
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To: april15Bendovr

No, it’s Joe and Mika talking to Chuck Todd about Harry Reid and healthcare reform.

The fault must be in the Morning Joe site, which must have swapped out what you get when you go to a particular URL, and NRO still has the original URL. But I don’t see a link on the Joe site to any debate about Cheney and Lawrence O’Donnell.


30 posted on 10/27/2009 9:49:22 AM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: april15Bendovr

Not the links in #2. The NRO link at the top of the thread.


31 posted on 10/27/2009 9:53:23 AM PDT by oldteen
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To: Deb

The shoe that guy!


32 posted on 10/27/2009 10:28:52 AM PDT by devistate one four (Back by popular demand: America love or leave it (GTFOOMC) TET68)
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To: devistate one four
?

33 posted on 10/27/2009 10:37:54 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: april15Bendovr

The debate that will never end :)


34 posted on 10/27/2009 7:32:55 PM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: april15Bendovr

I love this one: 1992 Gore attacks first Bush for ignoring how Iraq and Saddam were cooperative with Terrorists and making WMD. HA HA.

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/1602.html


35 posted on 10/27/2009 8:18:41 PM PDT by garjog (Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
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To: april15Bendovr

Neither one of these bozos could ever compare to the dignified, Vice President Dick Cheney.


36 posted on 10/27/2009 8:22:04 PM PDT by cubreporter (.)
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To: april15Bendovr

Neither one of these bozos could ever compare to the dignified, Vice President Dick Cheney.


37 posted on 10/27/2009 8:22:06 PM PDT by cubreporter (.)
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To: 13Sisters76
...I gave my students something to think about ...

LOL, the NEA-'Rats are going to be after you now. "Professionalism" etc. You're supposed to be a good little 'Rat like them.

38 posted on 10/27/2009 9:15:26 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: ottbmare
But I don’t see a link on the Joe site to any debate about Cheney and Lawrence O’Donnell.

Maybe because Total 'Rat Tool O'Donnell was humiliated and refuted.

39 posted on 10/27/2009 9:17:29 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

That’s kind of what I was figuring.


40 posted on 10/27/2009 9:29:24 PM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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