Posted on 10/27/2009 8:16:16 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
If you want to witness a massacre on television, take at look at this debate on MSNBC’s Morning Joe between Joe Scarborough and Lawrence O’Donnell over Dick Cheney, Iraq, and weapons of mass destruction. Scarborough uses an avalanche of facts to bury O’Donnell’s contention that Dick Cheney lied about WMD and based the case for war on a “wild guess.”
In addition to all the sources Scarborough cited and who claimed Saddam Hussein possessed WMD — including leading Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards, and more — you could add the intelligence agencies of virtually every nation in the world, including those who opposed the Iraq War.
As for O’Donnell’s assertion that none of the members of Congress Scarborough mentioned had access to the information Dick Cheney had: It is simply false. Mr. O’Donnell may be unfamiliar with something called the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which is considered the authoritative judgment of the intelligence community. The NIE that was produced in October 2002 was available to every member of Congress — and among its key findings was this:
We judge that Iraq has continued its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs in defiance of UN resolutions and restrictions. Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles with ranges in excess of UN restrictions. If left unchecked it probably will have a nuclear weapon within this decade.
As Factcheck.org put it, “The NIE . . . says pretty much what Bush and his aides were saying about Iraq’s weapons.”
The Washington Post pointed out what should have been obvious to O’Donnell: “Congress was entitled to view the 92-page National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq before the October 2002 vote.”
In addition, both the Senate Intelligence Committee, in a report adopted unanimously by both Republican and Democratic members, as well as the so-called Silberman-Robb report found (in the words of the latter), “no evidence of political pressure to influence the Intelligence Community’s pre-war assessment of Iraq’s weapons program.”
In other words, Lawrence O’Donnell is thoroughly ignorant; the charges he made were completely and demonstrably false. And they were clearly driven by malice. For Joe Scarborough to have publicly exposed such an angry ideologue was a public service. And for Lawrence O’Donnell, it was a public embarrassment.
I’m sure I’m just being crazy and paranoid, but when I click on that link all I get is a debate segment about health care and Harry Reid, no mention of Cheney, Iraq, Bush, WMD, etc.
It would be interesting to see what kind of info the Israeli intelligence has on the topic.
Which link
A week or so ago, Larry was badgered by Mika and Joe over Charlie Rangel. In response, Larry repeated over and over, "Charlie's a great guy."
And that is why neither Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow ever allow a conservative, even one as weak as Scarbourough, on their shows.
Everyone also forgets that Hans Blix filed a report saying that Saddam was “in material breach” of the UN resolutions which itself was a justification for war. When I say “everyone” that includes Blix himself who came out against the war. Scumbag.
That’s all I get as well.
I have checked these links on my other computers without logging onto Freerepublic and they show up.
I have no idea why a link of Hillary shows up on anyones computer talking about health care?
That is what you see?
No, it’s Joe and Mika talking to Chuck Todd about Harry Reid and healthcare reform.
The fault must be in the Morning Joe site, which must have swapped out what you get when you go to a particular URL, and NRO still has the original URL. But I don’t see a link on the Joe site to any debate about Cheney and Lawrence O’Donnell.
Not the links in #2. The NRO link at the top of the thread.
The shoe that guy!
The debate that will never end :)
I love this one: 1992 Gore attacks first Bush for ignoring how Iraq and Saddam were cooperative with Terrorists and making WMD. HA HA.
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/1602.html
Neither one of these bozos could ever compare to the dignified, Vice President Dick Cheney.
Neither one of these bozos could ever compare to the dignified, Vice President Dick Cheney.
LOL, the NEA-'Rats are going to be after you now. "Professionalism" etc. You're supposed to be a good little 'Rat like them.
Maybe because Total 'Rat Tool O'Donnell was humiliated and refuted.
That’s kind of what I was figuring.
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