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They don't have to have real dirt on Rice. If they can twist one statement, they're in business. and if they can't find one to twist, they can always assing to he some fictional statement some fictional source or some democrat operative claims to have heard. As we see here, all they need do is make it up out of thin air, feed it to some unnamed source and a gazillion apparently unrelated (but in truth, incestuous) web sites through a few trolls who are willing to lie about "witnessing" it or lie about having a source who did, and then some lazy journalist or fellow traveler in the mainstream media will pick it up and print it without leaving a hint as to where he or she obtained it, and then the very fact that it is now in the mainstram media gives the fantasy story the illusion of credibility. The average person will then assume the original obscure and sources who first published it are only reprinting what was "found and vetted" in the mainstream media, not knowing that the information was never vetted and is fictional.

Worse, the mythical source might even disappear with some scrubbing like we're seeing now, so that it becomes virtually impossible to clear up the myth, because the mainstream press isn't going to get interested in whether or not some obscure web site's stories were fabricated. The mainstream media is too big and egotistical to admit thay were duped by some obscure web author's story, too stupid to see how the circle of deception works, and too unethical to care.

Instead of the mainstream media doing real investigative journalism and breaking new information, it's extremists fabricating myths and using the laziness of the mainstream media to sugarcoat it for the consumption of people who wouldn't ever trust something like "Red Flags Weekly" as a source.

IOW, any player who wants to smear Rice can do like they do with anyone else they have ever smeared.

It's like them trying to scapegoat Tenet (and there have been concerted efforts to misquote him since 911) for the Africa comment- because "we went to war on false data Bush presented in the SOTU address" - when the Congress, including the Democrats, had already voted for it long before the SOTU address. If there are pending investigations on Iraq and african nations, Tenet can't use them to defend himself publicly because they are, obviously, classified, and for the protection of operatives in the field, he had better keep his mouth shut, because congress can't, and some of the least trustworthy people in the DNC are on the Senate intelligence committee.

And this is like what the Democrats pulled with their intel briefings- which were also attended, of course, by Republicans on the committee. The Democrats would come out in the weeks after 911 and claim they "weren't told," when in fact they were at the very same committee meeting where they and the republicans were told. They then tried to claim there weren't enough briefings to answer their questions, when Rumsfeld had briefings with them several times a week and they could ask him questions at any time. These Democrats are chronic liars.

You would think they would start to wonder why they think their ideology is superior if they have to lie about these things so blatantly just to sustain it.

The rats will probably try to plaster Rice with blame for not planning for every one of the infinite ways a free and open society like ours is threatened, and there were threats on everything from our nuke labs to assassinations. You know, the Democrats will try to tell us all how Rice should have done something in the months after she was confirmed- when after all, the Democrats spent eight years trying to warn us about "domestic terrorists" citing the constitution at traffic stops, hanging pictures of aborted fetuses on things, sawing their otherwise legal shotguns a quarter inch too short, or wearing penny loafers to protests demanding that ballots be counted in public and in front of the media. The conservatives had fair warning from Clinton that as soon as the Democrats left office, condi Rice should quickly attend to Al Qaeda because the democrats were just too busy. (Pardon the sarcasm) :o)