Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False

CBS News ^ | 7/10/03 | CBS News

[cwb]

Actually, Newt did a pretty good job of defending the administrations position...even O'Reilly agreed with his take. What Bill was pissed about is that Bush isn't out saying what Newt said so simply. If you go back and read Powell's speech to the UN, there was plenty of hard evidence to prove a violation of 1441. The several conversations about "nerve agents" and "evacuating" the sites was evidence enough. Oddly enough, in Powell's presentation, there wasn't any mention of this Niger connection...thus the war was not based on this statement at all.

[A CA Guy]

I think the Democrats will be like sharks in bloody water but will lose their bowels when WMD are discovered before the election. IMO!

[MJY1288]

LOL

[Tuxedo]

An administration, Republican or Democrat, that may have lied us into a war is much more serious.

While this is certainly true, wishing it will happen is not productive for this country.

First off, since the inspectors found nothing, nor evidence of weapons Iraq themselves admitted they had post-1991 being destroyed, it is logical to conclude one of two things:

1) Iraq lied about what they had in 1991.

2) The weapons are very well hidden, or were moved to a friendly power (Syria).

[MJY1288]

Bravo

[Prodigal Son]

If you think it doesn't look good now, wait until December 2004 when the Rats, the media and leftists at large in the world are wondering "what went wrong".

[cwb]

We've found more in Iraq than Clinton ever did in Kosovo...including those illusive mass-graves:>)

[jwalsh07]

Its beginning to unravel for Bush and the others who to put it politely tried toi deceive the American public.

You mean President Bush planted all those dead bodies in the mass graves?

Or do you mean that President Bush planted the plans and parts for a gas centrifuge in the Iraqi scientists rose garden?

Or perhaps you mean that President Bush, not Saddam Hussein, gave refuge to Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas, the PLF, Answar al Islam and Al Qaeda?

Or perhaps you mean that the enrcihed uranium in Iraq was put there by VP Cheney?

You might even mean that it was actually the President and VP who actually gassed those Kurds.

But on the other hand, maybe you mean that Saddam Hussein did not violate the terms of surrender from the first Gulf War by not providing proof of disarmamnet or returning Scott Speicher?

You know what I mean?

[MJY1288]

I believe all the stench around here lately is because some of the tactics used by these wacko's have been exposed. It's like the story about messing with dog droppings

[Tuxedo]

Ah, the confidence of the ignorant.

That would imply you know something he doesn't. Let's hear it! And, the operative word is KNOW, not suspect, believe, think, hope, or wish. Let's hear what you know about what BUsh has said and how it is false. Are you Iraqi intel?

[NYC Republican]

We've found more in Iraq than Clinton ever did in Kosovo...including those illusive mass-graves

Surely, you can't be defending the blood-thirsty Serbs, can you? How many people did they kill among Kosovo, Bosnia, and Croatia? 200,000? That's not worth stopping, especially at the cost of zero American lives?

Why is it worth liberating Iraq and not Kosovo?

Should we have waited until a Srebrenica styled massacre occur, when over 7,000 civilians were massacred in 2 days? Get real

[Only1choice____Freedom]

>>"Of course, what "objections from the CIA" and "CIA officials warned"

Don't forget that Clinton was "warned" about 9/11.

The entire reason we are even in this mess is because Clinton was either asleep at the switch or in league with our enemies. The other weapons were from his pals the Chinese and N. Koreans.

This is not as much trouble for Bush as the alphabets are pounding the drums for. When the smoke settles we might even find the intel was right.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Of course, what "objections from the CIA" and "CIA officials warned" mean is that some CIA analysts discounted the story.

I wonder if these are the same chaps who did not believe Al Qaeda posed a threat to the mainland US, either.

[MJY1288]

He reads Justin Raimondo, ROFLMAO

[NYC Republican]

We've found more in Iraq than Clinton ever did in Kosovo...including those illusive mass-graves

Do the libs not realize that this only emboldens the Iraqi resistance... placing our soldiers at further risk of harm? Do they even care?

[ValenB4]

First of all, I'm not wishing it would happen. I wish this ill conceived war and occupation had been avoided. I was on the Bush bandwagon before most. I actually shook his hand at a campaign stop. Like most on FR, I sincerely wanted him to be another Reagan. He's no such thing.

Secondly, don't you think with our satellite surveillance we would have seen Iraq moving the supposed hundreds of tons of material out of the country into another. And why would Saddam use the strategy of moving his weapons just to make the US look stupid after he's either deposed or dead?

[Douglas]

Folks need to realize that Bush, Cheney and others running this administration are not populists out for the little American.

They are neo-cons. Wishing tto create and control a new world order. An order where your rights to libery and financila security will not be recognized.

Some on the right are finally getting it that Bush deceived the American people. Pat Buchana was there all along but just now Michael Savage said on his show that this news could be huge.

What has to happen now is for another Howard baker to emerge in the Senate and start asking the questions of this administration that need to be asked. Its coming - you wait and see.

And guys and gals, wake up. This adminstration has no loyalty to "true" conservative or constituional ideas. Its all about power and being in a position to wield that power.

The conservative movement makes a mistake iif it wraps itself around Bush now. Whether this brings his administration down or leads to his defeat is secondary.

What is paramount is conservative sell themselves out by joining the Bussh/Cheney/Ashcroft bandwagon. The conservative movement could be set back a generation if this story contiues to unravel.

[Cathryn Crawford]

He reads Justin Raimondo, ROFLMAO

Justin Raimondo has made a few good points about Liberia. You have to give him that.

[Dolphy]

For all the libs bellyaching on this I'm a little angry that one part of government isn't talking to another. The documents were known forgeries before the prez brought it up in his speech.

Is this accurate? As I recall it was El Baradei, during one of the highly publicized meetings leading up to the military action, who said that document was forged.