Posted on 08/30/2006 1:02:09 PM PDT by the Real fifi
Draw your own conclusions from the fact that Armitage’s best friend Colin Powell called Dick Cheney’s supporters (including Scooter Libby, Doug Feith and Paul Wolfowitz) the “Gestapo Office” (quite insulting considering that there is a history of relatives lost in the Holocaust among them).
Factor in that Powell called Doug Feith “a card-carrying member of the Likud Party” and referred to the Likudnicks in the White House controlling policy during his “exit interview with Bush” (see Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq) – thereby showing his support for anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Okay Suzy, while you are baithing in the rhelms of bliss, it might interest you to know that we now suspect Hezbollah has sleeper operatives in the United States at this very moment.
I voted for Bush the second time around, and the guy still allows people to enter the United States from terrorist states in the Middle-East and across Asia.
If you are truly concerned about extinction, you might give that some consideration the next time you're asked to vote for someone that doesn't quite see eye to eye with you.
You and I both know the democrats are the scum of the earth, at least those that side with the terrorists. I still not convinced that we haven't been exposed to an incredible threat to our safety by our own side.
Heck, we can't even get our borders under control, and it's still evident the guy I voted for STILL doesn't get it.
That report sounded bogus- there is no way someone would have to shop a story around to six reporters before getting one to take the bait.
Throwing gossip to reporters is like throwing bread in the air at the beach- you will be up to your eyeballs in gulls before you complete the throw.
I think people are starting to suck up John Kerry's libmyths and agitprop from the 1980s now and post it here as fact.
LOL! It's a freaking drift net, evidently. Looks like we need to pass out some chill pills, if for no other reason than to cut down on all the exclamation mark abuse around here.
;-)
Here's a look at Armitage's campaign contributions since 1987:
http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Richard_Armitage.php
He likey his John McCain.
Whew! This thread is full of great info.
Bookmark for safekeeping.
LOL, looks like Wilson tried to smear Elliott Abrams too:
...This causes problems. For example, when Wilson suggests that Elliott Abrams, the National Security Council official, may have leaked Plame's identity to the press, his only proof is that Abrams's name "has most often been repeated to me in connection with the inquiry and disclosure into my background and Valerie's." Not quite the level of proof sought by a grand jury.------- "The Rise and Decline of Joe Wilson ," Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard, 05/17/2004, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1132997/posts
APRIL 23?, 1985 , 6 PM to 1:30 AM : (NICARAGUA : KERRY AND HARKIN MEET WITH SANDINISTA LEADERS) Around midnight, Sen. Tom Harkin got up from the cane-backed chair and stood on the veranda at the home of Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto. For a moment, the tropical breeze softened the harsh realities he and Sen. John Kerry were facing inside with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and D'Escoto.
Harkin (D-Iowa) and Kerry (D-Mass.) -- who came here trying to extract agreements for peaceful negotiations from Ortega before today's [April 23, 1985] congressional votes on "contra" aid -- say the echoes of Vietnam are everywhere.
For the first time, the Senate has three Vietnam-era veterans who returned deeply opposed to that war -- Kerry, Harkin and Albert Gore Jr. (D-Tenn.). Kerry got three Purple Hearts and returned to lead Vietnam Veterans Against the War, stunning the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he now serves on by asking the question, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
Harkin flew planes in the Vietnam theater and, as a congressional aide in 1970, exposed the infamous tiger cages where prisoners were tortured by the South Vietnamese. Now, 15 years later, they were in Nicaragua...---------- "Harkin & Kerry, Back in a War Zone; Finding Parallel Lines in Nicaragua (Ortega/D'Escoto meeting!)," WaPo Archives | April 23, 1985 | Myra MacPherson
Reminds you of the Abu Ghraib / bleedingheart attacks of recent years.
...The scene was set for Kerry to bluster into the equation like a bull in a China shop. Teaming with Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the pair - without portfolio - traveled to Managua to chat with Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega. The result: a meaningless document that State Department experts considered little more than an offer to the Contras to surrender. The Sandinistas made no commitment to national reconciliation, and that was the heart of the matter.
Nonetheless, Kerry raced back to Washington with the document he touted as a “peace proposal.” Indeed, Ortega promises a cease-fire, as long as the United States cut off all assistance, including humanitarian aid, to the anti-communist forces and their families. “Here,” Kerry boldly pronounced to the Senate, “is a guarantee of the security interest of the United States.” ...
But few bought the grandstanding. Overnight, Kerry found himself not the returning hero and peacemaker but a pariah. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., accused Kerry and Harkin of “transgressing” against the Constitution by holding unauthorized negotiations with a foreign leader.
A peeved Secretary of State George Shultz announced, “Those who assure us that these dire consequences are not in prospect [in Central America] are some of those who assured us of the same in Indochina before 1975. The litany of apology for communists, and condemnation for America and our friends, is beginning again.”
White House spokesman Larry Speakes rained more buckets on Kerry's parade: “The very hour the House was rejecting the aid package [to the Nicaraguan resistance], President Ortega was going to Moscow to seek funds for his Marxist regime.” Ortega had, indeed, announced a trip to the U.S.S.R. to petition for $200 million more in Soviet support.
Teddy K. and 'KKK' Byrd to the Rescue
A frantic Kerry had his staff seek out anybody willing to praise his efforts. The only takers were Sens. Teddy Kennedy, D-Mass., and Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who styled the controversial mission to Managua as a masterstroke forcing a recalcitrant Reagan to parley with the commies. Perhaps figuring that if he stood still, the unwelcome mantle of “soft on communism” would cloak his shoulders, Kerry decided that the best defense was a colorful and flamboyant offense.
The former prosecutor got busy in 1986, launching a full-scale “investigation” to discredit the Nicaraguan resistance and the Reagan administration. The aim: stitch together - by whatever means - an international criminal conspiracy.
Using the unlikely fodder of allegations in lawsuits, Kerry's probe predictably hit rough waters.
...According to Insight's report, a British soldier of fortune, Peter Glibbery, swore that Kerry staffers bribed him to accuse Sandinista opponents of crimes, only to recant the next day. A former French soldier named Claude Chaffard claimed that Kerry staffers promised to help him with U.S. visa problems and paid him money while he cooperated.
Such wrinkles certainly did not bolster Kerry’s insistent demands to the Republican majority's staff on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to crank up full hearings on his shadowy conspiracy theories.
In desperation to keep the raked muck churning, Kerry signed a letter used in a direct-mail appeal for an outside group to raise money. That outside group was Commission on United States-Central American Relations, which was reportedly a front of International Center for Development Policy and included as members open supporters of the Sandinistas, the communist Cuban dictatorship of Fidel Castro and the communist FMLN guerrillas of El Salvador, according to commission literature.
“It was a racket that was probably illegal at the time, and certainly would be illegal now,” a former Senate staffer with firsthand knowledge of the investigation revealed to Insight. The work product of the “racket”: alleged widespread drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan resistance. It was enough to prod the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to create a subcommittee to investigate. Kerry feverishly honed a theory that the Contras were nothing less than a major hub in an international cocaine-smuggling operation.
Underlings Damage Federal Investigation But by the summer of 1986, the Washington Times was reporting that aides to Kerry “severely damaged a federal drug investigation by interfering with a witness while pursuing allegations of drug smuggling by the Nicaraguan resistance.”
The Times later followed up with a report, citing federal law-enforcement officials. The revelation: The FBI repeatedly had warned Kerry's staffers to back off because they were endangering a federal anti-drug operation.
According to the report, an FBI informant became “spooked” and stopped cooperating after Kerry’s staff interfered – going as far as to change her story to include the Contras as part of the plot.
As was the case earlier, Kerry's ploy began to unravel. Drug traffickers "are selling a story to Congress and to the media that they have concocted to have their sentences reduced or to have their cases dismissed,” a Drug Enforcement Administration agent told the New York Times. Eventually the DEA and Justice Department dismissing the claims of one of Kerry’s star witnesses, accused cocaine trafficker Jorge Morales, that the CIA and Nicaraguan resistance forces were involved in large-scale drug trafficking....
Thickening the unsavory brew, the Washington Times then revealed that Kerry had concealed evidence of Sandinista drug trafficking and had deleted information from his staff report of the previous October to pin the blame on the Sandinistas’ U.S.-backed opponents. The camera-hogging Kerry suddenly made himself scarce. He refused to speak to journalists seeking to question him. “Sen. John Kerry is coming under increasing fire from federal law-enforcement officials,” the Associated Press reported. “The officials have said Kerry’s work was based largely on unsubstantiated allegations from informants, most of whom already have been interviewed by federal law-enforcement officials and some of whom have previously been found to be unreliable. A number of them are charged with various crimes or are in jail.”
Unrepentant, Kerry switched again to the attack mode (excerpt)... ---------------------- "Kerry Went to Extreme Lengths to Back Communist Ortega and Undermine U.S.,"
by Dave Eberhart, NewsMax, 5/20/04
Well, I ask why for sure, but I also am asking that other people ask themselves the same question.
Maybe if enough people start asking why out loud, someone will be polite enough to answer the freakin' questions.
Brian Williams is a POS. I couldn't watch him after he asked W about what his father thinks about the MESS he's made......do these people have NO conscience.
Ping!!
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Niamey: see no evil
The Senate Select Commission on Intelligence noted that in 1999 Joseph A Wilson had also been sent to Niger by the CIA and there has been much speculation about the purpose of that trip.
Now we know. His keen powers of observation were put in out nation’s service to check out reports that A. Q Khan was traveling to Africa to purchase yellow cake uranium, something of which he seems to have found no evidence. From opinionjournal.com
...The full story of Khan’s activities cannot yet be fully told-much information is under lock and key in Pakistan, if it has been preserved at all-but a persuasive preliminary account has been prepared by Gordon Corera, a correspondent for the BBC who has followed the rise and fall of the Khan network. “Shopping for Bombs” tells a disturbing tale…
...By the close of the 1990s, the CIA started to scrutinize Khan’s activities and travels, still without realizing their full importance. One of the more curious details in Mr. Corera’s book is that the agency turned to Joe Wilson, the husband of CIA officer Valerie Plame, to investigate some of Khan’s African visits. To this end, Mr. Wilson traveled to uranium-rich Niger in 1999, a full three years before he went there to investigate Saddam Hussein’s possible attempts to buy “yellowcake” uranium. Mr. Wilson found nothing worrisome in Niger either time.
Was AQ Khan buying Nigerian yellowcake in 1999? Tom Maguire researched this a while ago and found this:
from a book published in 2000 by a London-based accountant who claimed to be a pal of A.Q.Khan, Pakistan’s Father of the Islamic Bomb:
We left Dubai for Khartoum on 21 February 1999. The Education Minister of Sudan received the group and we were lodged at the State Guest House. After making a short stopover in a Nigerian city, we reached Timbuktu on 24 February 1999. After spending a couple of days, we were on our way back and our first stop was Niamey, capital of Niger. Our next stop was N’Djamena, capital of Chad, where we were accorded official protocol. Next day, we flew to Khartoum. After Dr.Khan has attended to some business, we visited the Shifa factory that was destroyed last year by the American missiles. Dr.Khan met the Sudanese President. We were back in Dubai on 28 February 1999.
“We were again airborne for Timbuktu on 20 February 2000
(My comments: Musharraf had seized power on October 12,1999) From Dubai, we flew to Khartoum, where two Sudanese friends joined us. We reached Niamey, capital of Niger, on 22 February 2000. Our Ambassador Brig. Nisar welcomed the group and gave a dinner in honour of Dr.Khan. Brig.Nisar had also served as the Military Secretary of Nawaz Sharif. Niger has big uranium deposits. We reached Timbuktu on 24 February 2000.
What does it mean? Who knows? The CIA sent Joe Wilson to Niger in 1999 to check out some troubling reports; this report of Khan’s travels came out in 2000, so presumably the CIA was aware of it in 2002.
Was Khan in Niamey? Was he there when an Iraqi delegation was there? Has this been debunked?
Oddly, there is no mention of AQ Khan in the SSCI. More fuel for the fantasists! (And I may become one).
If I were to dare to make a point, it would be this – there may well have been much more to the Niger-uranium story than we have heard so far, and the CIA may have had better reasons than we know for being suspicious of a Iraq-Niger connection. (Yes, I am waaay out on a limb there…) And the significance would be… hmm, that the CIA had reasons to be wary of a Niger-Iraq link, and that Joe Wilson is over-selling his account of his 2002 Niiger trip even more than we already thought he was (the SSCI described it as inconclusive).Bonus Paranoia: Based on this bootleg FT excerpt, Libya had 2,600 tons of yellowcake from Niger, even though the COGEMA records and controls in which Joe Wilson put such faith showed only 1,500 tons had been shipped from Niger to Libya. Again, has this been debunked? And when did the unrecorded shipments to Libya occur? I am not clear on that point from this excerpt.
Clarice Feldman 8 31 06
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