Posted on 11/03/2006 9:15:26 AM PST by The Blitherer
You see kids – this is what happens when your worldview gets hopelessly narrow.
In its semi-annual November surprise, the New York Times “reveals” that the Bush administration put documents on the web that showed that Iraq was quite far along in its quest for nuclear weapons. Naturally, that’s not the focus of the story. The focus of the story is the cursed incompetence of the Bush administration, the Republican Party, and even right-wing media-types (like me!) who wanted the documents released.
But the takeaway from the story for normal people won’t be that conservatives both inside and outside the administration are all a bunch of blithering incompetents. Besides, Andrew Sullivan’s vote had already been pretty much sewed up. The “news” in the story is how far along Saddam was in his bid to acquire the ultimate WMD. While that’s an old story to many of us, it’s heartening to see the Times splash it all over this morning’s front page and in so doing refresh the nation’s memory regarding the most disputed causus belli of the current war.
The Times lengthy reportage pounds the theme that some of the documents could give potential malefactors like those nice Mullahs in Iran a shortcut to nuclear weaponry. The Times quotes a predictably unnamed diplomat fretting, “It’s a cookbook. If you had this, it would short-circuit a lot of things.”
Let’s just posit for the sake of argument that the Times’ huge exposé is news-breaking of the first order and is no way, shape or form a maladroit effort at electioneering. Let’s assume that the Times really does think that this information being posted on the web made the world a vastly more dangerous place.
If that’s the case, why did the Times wait until just last night to confront the government with this information even though the Times dates the concerns of experts to “recent weeks”? One would think the Times’ heartfelt patriotism would have compelled the paper to bring its concerns to the government immediately rather than hold off until four days before an election.
Giggle. Read the Times’ story closely and you’ll hear yet another death rattle from the lumbering carcass of the mainstream media.
Since when does the NY Slimes have a problem with revealing (allegedly) sensitive information?
Amen to that!! The NY Slimes actually expressing concern that sensitive US secrets were made public. Isn't this the same rag that time and time again has published leaked info about US efforts to prosecute the WOT??
AI can't wait until these clowns and thier cohorts are completely pushed out of the biz by sites like this and Drudge!!
And how stupid do they think we all are. We all know you can find out how to make a bomb many places on the Internet.
The left is so dedicated to blind opposition that they don't even see a problem with contradicting themselves to remain in opposition.
Bill Clinton and CIA Gave Iranians Blueprint for Nuclear Bomb
Hmmm...wonder why that story never made the front page of the NYT < /sarcasm>.
Thanks for posting this....
pinging others.....
I'm a tad confused on this issue. Even listening to Rush today didn't clear this up. (I went to Military Acadamy )back in the 70's. Perhaps that's why I don't get it.) This seems to me to be a good story for Repub's. It reveals that there were WMD or at least a possible atom bomb in the making. Bush vindicated? What are your thoughts?
It's all about spin. The papers reveal that Saddam had a shortcut to making a nuclear bomb, and all he needed was the enriched uranium from Niger. But the NYT is spinning the story, trying to focus on those idiots in the Bush admin who let this get posted online. I think its gonna backfire on them, though.
Oh, let me just clear up that I was being sarcastic with the whole "idiots" comment. That's how the NYT is trying to make it look.
I expect the NYSlimes to post the diagrams and technical information on it's website in the near future. With a special not to the terrorists running Iran and North Korea.
I think its gonna backfire on them, though.
Thank you. I know that the NYSlimes certainly didn't mean it as a prop for Bush, but I figured that most folks would figure this out and say..."hmm, seems to me that Bush did the right thing going over to Iraq."
Your brother is ignoring the entire story. Nope, not going to read that, not going to listen to that either. Nope Nope Nope.
Salon.com April 13, 2006
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/04/13/document_dump/index_np.html Bush's bogus document dump
The administration seeded its new public archive of Iraq documents with jihadist materials completely unrelated to Saddam.
By Fritz Umbach
While the world has watched claim after claim about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction dissolve like a mirage, the Bush administration has never deviated from one assertion in its shifting case for war: that there was an operational connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. As evidence of the manipulation of prewar intelligence keeps surfacing, the administration has now taken that equally dubious claim and made it virtual.
Lacking evidence of a real-world link between Saddam and the perpetrators of 9/11, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, headed by Bush appointee John Negroponte, has apparently decided to create one in cyberspace -- by seeding its new online Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents archive with suggestive jihadist materials, and by linking the site to an entirely unrelated database of al-Qaida materials.
[Rush Limbaugh is saying that when the documents first appeared on the net, the democrats and the moonbat immediately doubted their authenticity.
It's just so typical of them. They demand something, get what they wanted, discount it as fake, hope it goes away, then cheer when it reappears because they've changed position.]
LOL. That about sums up the Dems. They also like to "create" their reality.
The New York Times Strikes (Out) Again
Senator Santorum Comments on Release of Valuable Information in Pre-War Documents Discovered in Iraq
U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide (Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program)
Saddam Closer To Bomb Than Anyone Thought
Shocker: New York Times Confirms Iraqi Nuclear Weapons Program
JVERITAS Responds to the 11/3 NYT Article Regarding Iraq Nuclear Program.
Desperation is ugly. You can't have it both ways, now can you? The "dangerous" information in the hands of Saddam only made "dangerous" by the evil Americans because they published information that confirmed that Saddam was pursuing WMD. The stakes are high for the MSM. If they fail their uselessness will be exposed. The scramble for the lifeboats will not be pretty. At least when the Titanic sank they had a calm sea.
Rep. Hoekstra's response to the NYT is a thing of beauty as well. He denies that ANYONE warned the goverment/Congress about the danger posed in those documents.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731635/posts
ABSOLUTELY!!!
Also, Joe Wilson's original oral report said saddam proibably was looking for uranium in Niger. It's only after a job from Kerry that he wrote the NYT op-ed.
FDR would have had him executed.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.