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To: Redmen4ever

You aren’t getting it either, I’ve showed that we did find WMD.
Doesn’t matter what anyone said or didn’t say.
The facts are the facts.


180 posted on 02/19/2016 8:04:07 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

The only fact that is in dispute is whether you know what the following means: “show me the mark on the video clip at which Powell says Bush lied to him.”

Here is my tentative conclusion: you know what this means, and you know there is no such mark. But, I’ll go along with the gag that you don’t know what I’m asking for.

I cannot myself point to such a mark, because there is no such mark. But, I can point to the mark at which he says there were unidentified people within the intelligence community who should have waned him that the intelligence was suspect. This is the 0:50 mark of the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTLmOoPzjs

Since the Secretary of State has intelligence assets of his own, this is not a condemnation of Bush, or of the Bush administration other than the Dept. of State. It is blaming of somebody else for a mistake he and others made.

Over at the Dept. of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld was also grappling with the intelligence reports. He too has intelligence assets. His people told him, “Our knowledge of the Iraqi (nuclear) weapons program is based largely—perhaps 90%—on analysis of imprecise intelligence.” Rumsfeld circulated this among the Chiefs of Staff and decided to go with the intelligence reports.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/iraq-war-wmds-donald-rumsfeld-new-report-213530

The British government has its own intelligence resources. The support of the U.S. conclusion by Tony Blair was crucial, in that his assessment was more independent than that of the members of Bush’s cabinet. Blair, also, was mistaken.

Since you do not know the meaning of simple things like identify the mark on a video clip, it is possible that you don’t know the meaning of “lie.” It is probably a good thing that people of limited intelligence find somebody who could tell them what to believe, and I couldn’t really blame a person of limited intelligence as to whom they latch onto.


200 posted on 02/19/2016 8:45:23 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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