Posted on 07/11/2004 9:44:43 PM PDT by neverdem
Unfortunatley, the administration and re-election campaign have done a poor PR job in the last 12 months, and these unsubstantiated charges have now become 'fact' in many people's minds. When lies are not answered, they become truth. I hope to see the usual rope-a-dope from the campaign in the next few months to hang the left, and cruise to victory. This election shouldn't even be remotely close, if not for the poor PR handling.
I'm so sick of this leftist war against our actions that they supported...FRAUDS...! ALL OF THEM!
Better late then never, but the damage has been done.
Bump!
So talk to the man in charge of the CIA when all this info was being collected.
It's not unusual for a newly elected president to use the intelligence information given to him by his predecessors.
Why ask Bush about it? He wasn't there. He was governing in Texas.
It's not poor PR handling. It's a partisan media. And it's just part of the terrain. Bush will still win.
The Bush Team has the advantage of the Truth.
I think it's smart to let the dims wallow in their lies.
The truth is emerging and it's gonna be bad news for the left.
Good smart Rope a Dope.
Since the left will never consider falling on it's sword, why not have it hung by it's own pitard?
My husband is very unbiased, so unbiased sometimes I wanna smack him , but he says Bush is wayyyyy ahead of the democrats. He says Bush is very, very good at what he does, and he's years ahead of them strategically. He says they'll never be able to compete with him, and there's no doubt he's already working on 2008 by now.
Works for me!
FREgards...
This is not the public but rather the Senate. I think the last polls I have seen that ask still found a large fraction if not a majority of the public thinks Saddam had WMD.
I know I think it. Fortunately the Dims are too dim to figure out how they might run against Bush on the WMD issue and win.
The last administrations speeches and film releases about Saddams WMD's. Hillary, Kerry, Kennedy, the whole bunch spoke out supporting Bill and his "determination" to stop Saddams weapons of mass destruction!
Show one of each, and Bush is a shoe in.
Enough said.
Dem statements in the following link say more.
Thanks for the link.
bfmc!!! (Bump For Morning Coffee)
You're welcome!
I'm not sure I understand their point. Joe Wilson said the Niger documents were forgeries. The CIA according to all reports said they were uncomfortable with them. How does the senate report prove Joe Wilson to be a partisan fraud?
"The Committee likewise found no evidence of pressure to link Iraq to al Qaeda." But they also found no evidence from the CIA that they were "Allies" or had any strong connection, something the administration has claimed repeatedly and still has to put up or shut up about.
If we want to accuse the liberals of faulty logic, we can't use it ourselves. The article simply makes no sense, despite saying things we might want to hear.
1. Joe Wilson may have "said" the "Niger documents" were forgeries, but he never actually saw them (until later perhaps), so he had no standing to do so.
2. Wilson was not sent to Niger to investigate whether the "Niger documents" were forgeries (again, he hadn't seen them at that point) but rather the general question of Saddam-Niger uranium attempts.
3. Nothing he did in Niger proved the "Niger documents" were forgeries (to the extent that we know that, we know it from other sources). Didn't stop him from going around talking as if he was a big expert on them, their missing signatures, etc.
4. On the other hand, what he did in Niger DID prove Bush's 16 words correct. One of Wilson's sources stated that an Iraqi (Baghdad Bob, turns out) made what he perceved as a uranium overture. This proves Bush's 16 words correct. This is (I believe) in the Senate report and is Exhibit A of Wilson's partisan fraudulence. (And the "Niger documents" being frauds has no bearing on this issue - one of the most irritating ways in which the Joe Wilsons of the world have misled the rest of us. The fact that someone somewhere forged a document does not prove that Saddam didn't seek uranium from Africa - if it did, then I could convert you into a high school dropout by writing up a forged high school diploma with your name on it.)
5. Although his actual investigation proved the opposite, Wilson came back from Niger, wrote an NYT article "What I didn't find in Africa", and generally spent the next year talking as if he'd DISPROVED Bush's 16 words. The "Baghdad Bob" story didn't come out till his book.
6. He actually lied publicly about his wife recommending him for the job; this is Exhibit B in the Senate report which helps prove him a partisan fraud. (It's also Exhibit A in proving his little "investigation" a fraud to being with. This whole damn thing never should have been an issue.)
7. Incidentally the administration has NOT "claimed repeatedly" that Iraq and al Qaeda were "Allies" (why do you put that in quotes?), that is a lie invented and promulgated by yourself for reasons known only to yourself. They have claimed there were connections, which is absolutely true. If you want to get into silly puerile parsings about what "kind" of connections, be my guest, but I really don't see the point.
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