Posted on 11/02/2005 4:06:22 AM PST by RobFromGa
WTF??????
Anyone want to take a shot at what this truly bizarre statement means, signifies, or a guess as to why Searchlight would say it?
Reid excerpt...
There are numerous examples of how the Administration misstated and manipulated the facts as it made the case for war. The Administration’s statements on Saddam's alleged nuclear weapons capabilities and ties with Al Qaeda represent the best examples how it consistently and repeatedly manipulated the facts. The America people were warned time and time again by the President, the Vice President, the current Secretary of State and their other capacities about Saddam's nuclear weapons capabilities. The Vice President said -- and I quote --
"Iraq has reconstituted its nuclear programs,"
Playing upon the fears of Americas after September 11, these officials and others raised the specter that left unchecked, Saddam could soon attack America with nuclear weapons.
Obviously we know now that their nuclear claims were wholly inaccurate. But more troubling is the fact that a lot of Intelligence experts were telling the Administration then that its claims about Saddam's nuclear capabilities were false. The situation is very similar with respect to Saddam's links to Al Qaeda. The Vice President told the America people -- I quote again –
"...we know he's out trying once again to produce nuclear weapons and we know he has a long-standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the al qaeda organization."
These assertions have been totally discredited, not a little bit, totally discredited. But again, the Administration went ahead with these assertions in spite of the fact that the government's top experts did not agree with these claims.
THESE ALLEGATIONS BY REID ARE BALDERDASH AND NEED TO BE FORCEFULLY REBUTTED BY THE ADMINISTRATION. THE LIBERALS HAVE GOT AWAY WITH THESE LIES TOO LONG:
1. we found WMDs (just not stockpiles)
2. AQ and Saddam were very linked (just not 9-11)
3. Clinton and most of the Dem leadership is on record re: the threat posed by Saddam
4. They voted for the Iraq War
What a tool.
It would be so easy for the president or Vice President or Secretary of State or Defense to say any one of those things.
He starts out with gas prices being too high, for which his solution is to evicerate the US presence in the MidEast and turn Iraq over to Al Queda. Brilliant.
Peach has an excellent rubuttal of all that, that I've bookmarked on my homepage links. Here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513665/posts#2
Oh, and you're absolutely right.
"Republican Committee Chairman Peter Goss is selected to C.I.A. Director. Regarding the question of vetting the Valerie Plame leak, Goss said,
“Show me a blue dress and some DNA and I'll give you an investigation.”
End of quote. "
Well said, Porter Goss!
Thanks for remembering that list, Freedom Poster. When I heard Dick Durban (traitor) say yesterday there was no connection between AQ and Iraq, I thought, well now the Republicans will counter that particular lie.
1. Remind the left that every single Democrat of note said in 1998 that Iraq's WMD posed a danger to the United States.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972389/posts
2. Remind the left that Clinton's Justice Department obtained a federal indictment of Osama bin Laden which stated that AQ had a deal with Iraq. They agreed not to attack Iraq in exchange for weapons development.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985906/posts
3. 9/11 Commission reaffirms Bush administration view of Iraq/AQ ties.
June 21, 2004. RNC.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157478/posts
4. Long List of Clinton Administration Officials who Believed There was an AQ/Iraq connection.
July 12, 2004. NewsMax.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169397/posts
5. List of CIA and various Reports regarding Iraq's support for terrorists, terrorism and AQ.
September 16, 2004. The Weekly Standard.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/631slkle.asp
6. Osama bin Laden was considered an Iraqi Intelligence asset.
October 14, 2004. National Review.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246505/posts
Funny how in the 90's the world was concerned about the growing relationship between OBL and Saddam and now the left is revising history.
Saddam reaching out to OBL
January 1, 1999. Newsweek
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158277/posts
ABC news reports on the Osama/Saddam connections
January 14, 1999. ABC News
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1229608/posts?page=1
Osama and Saddam Work Together
January 27, 1999. Laurie Mylroie interview. She is a former Clinton terrorism czar.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158482/posts
A Much Shunned Terrorist Takes Refuge In Iraq (Abu Nidal)
New York Times. January 1999.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433610/posts
Western Nightmare: Saddam and OBL versus the World. Iraq recruited OBL.
February 6, 1999. The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,798270,00.html
Saddam's Link to OBL
February 6, 1999. The Guardian
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866105/posts
Saddam offered asylum to bin Laden
February 13, 1999. AP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158274/posts
Son of Saddam coordinates with OBL.
Iraqi Special Ops coordinates with Bin Laden's terrorist activities.
August 6, 1999. Yossef Bodansky, National Press Club
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951911/posts
That and more here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts?page=184#184
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Just Harry spouting the SOS-----Same old S---.
Reid is playing pure politics on this and the very nature of the attack on the WH AND the WOT, his characterization of the deficiencies of the Bush Administration is tacit testament to the fact that the Dems don't "get it" and are desperate for attention.
I think that as soon as the average Dem dim bulb understands that the same intelligence that Bush used to justify the war in Iraq was the same intelligence touted by President Bubba, Senator Teddy (*hick*)"The Tubinator" Kennedy, Senator John F'n "Did You Know I Was In Vietnam?" Kerry, Senator Barbara "I've Got An Assualt Weapon And You Don't" Boxer and others on the extreme left, they may demand that the Dems stop the showboating (ok, that's wishful thinking on MY part). These people are so despicably dishonest and morally repugnant as to offend the senses to merely say their name.
However, what rankles me above the political circus in Washington is that we, the taxpayers, are paying for this nonsense. I think we are owed a refund on our money. We sent these people to Washington to address and resolve the issues of the United States of America, NOT to engage in politcal theatrics.
There is, however, a simple cure for this problem (besides completely voting the Dems out of every political office possible): Given the advanced communications technologies available today, there really is no need for them to gather in Washington to play up to the cameras on our dime. Keep'em home, make them live where their constituents live, make them more accessible to their constituents and reduce their collective "face time" meeting on Capitol Hill to less than two months per year. Perhaps living among their constituents 90% of the year will force them to focus on the issues most important to the country and substantially reduce the political theater.
Frankly, for my money (and they get a lot of it!) if they have nothing better to do than engage in these little partisan circus attractions, send'em home and reduce the amount they force us to over pay them.
This speech and the juvenile stunt which accompanies it can be equated with the wails of a drowning man, coming up for the third time, arms flailing, gulping for air; he exhibits the desperation and exasperation at the sure knowledge that he will soon be consumed by the deep.
I hope yesterday was the "9-11 wakeup call" to the Administration and the GOP leadership that the Rats are not worried about taking the country down the tubes if that is what it will take to keep them in power, the time has come to expose their continuous lies and destroy them.
Repeating lies doesn't make it turn into the truth!
Wilson told the 911 commission an Iraqi delegation met with Niger officials in 1999, I believe, to discuss 'business'.
Anyone here ever been to Searchlight?
What a joke..its a ghost town. There wouldnt be a dam thing there if it wasnt for cusinos..and there is where Harry the Canary got his start. He's a mob guy and got where he is from mob support.
It just makes the lies seem like the truth to an important percentage of the population who can't understand why you wouldn't defend yourself when the lies are repeated OVER and OVER and OVER and...
President Bush needs to go on the offensive to shut this thing down. The Senate Minority leader is a big enough target that a forceful response is required to point out the LIES in the Reid speech on the Senate floor.
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