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As much as I hate to say it the dems are going to keep working this. No, he can't be impeached over it BUT if they keep it up he could have problems getting re-elected.

I was watching this at FARK this morning and the usually fairly conservative crowd there was waffling.

FWIW I also think keeping Chaney on is a mistske. The pubbies need to be grooming someone to take over. Not Jeb, absolutely not Powell and Chaney won't make it. Rice is a question mark but at this point I'd put her at a disadvantage. It all depends on how she is promoted over the next term.

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"As much as I hate to say it the dems are going to keep working this.
I was watching this at FARK this morning and the usually fairly conservative crowd there was waffling."
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I agree. And that is why it is critical that the Repulicans refute them at every turn, showing that the Democrats themselves were convinced based on the same intelligence, that Saddam had WMD. And the Republicans must not allow the Dems to have hearings to turn this into a witch hunt. If we don't nip this in the bud, the chorus is going to get louder and louder and may ultimately damage Bush, which is the intent of the Democrats, of course.

Just as the Democrats and liberal papers literally drowned out out phenomenal success in Iraq, by putting the museum looting story on front pages for weeks, when it ultimately turned out to be total fabrication, they play it on page 9, in the meantime, what people remember, is the looting story, not the toppling of Saddam's statue.

The "lying about WMD" accusations are much more serious, and unless the Republicans agressively refute them and counterattack, it will seep into public consciousness.

As much as I hate to say it the dems are going to keep working this. No, he can't be impeached over it BUT if they keep it up he could have problems getting re-elected. I was watching this at FARK this morning and the usually fairly conservative crowd there was waffling.

This is happening because we conservatives are not making much of a serious attempt at crushing the socialists' lies on other forums.

I'm a co-moderator on a mailing list for dissemination of news and opinion pieces on the Iraq war. It is mainly to provide links to off-the-beaten-path articles that the 500 subscribers - most of whom are news and politics junkies that are craving the information - would otherwise not see; in other words, the perfect list in which we could post all sorts of underdistributed conservative commentary and detailed debunkings of this sort of crap like John Dean's demented rants. Even better, the list rules are that you can only post links to other articles, not spam the list with comments of your own. So the haters would not be allowed to attack you for posting conservative material, and the 500 subscribers would be getting both sides of the issue.

But I posted on FR asking for people to join the list and post - I begged, in fact - and not one Freeper was willing to sign up. So except for my occasional postings to try to stem the tide, the list consists 100% of ultra-left Bush-hate spam from a tiny group of 10 to 15 DU-types. The John Dean article was just posted over there, where it will be accepted as fact and distributed further by dozens who would otherwise never have seen it. And no conservative counterpoint will travel those same routes.

Thus, if this sort of thing does lead to reelection problems for Bush next year, we will have nobody to blame but ourselves. We're resting on our laurels.

(Luckily, I don't think this will affect Bush's reelection chances. A Fox News poll just came out yesterday showing that an overwhelming majority of Americans think the war was the right thing to do, and they don't care whether we ever find a single WMD. But that doesn't change the fact that we're not fighting back hard enough.)