Kay on Today: "It Was Absolutely Prudent to Go to War Against Saddam" (Remarkable New Info)

The Today Show

[prairiebreeze]

What independents want to know is who is held responsible for this failure?

Clinton of course. Intelligence forces were decimated during his tenure.

No answer though as to why German, Israeli, Brit, French and UN intel also was flawed. I sorta think it wasn't so flawed......

Prairie

[Wait4Truth]

Maybe Kay will do some campaigning for the President...or maybe some ads will be made from his remarks. I don't know. All I know is that the RATS are lying and will continue to do so. They rely on the public being basically uninformed. Most people are not political junkies like us.

[prairiebreeze]

Ahh, a coux by radials Islamists taking out Saddam.

I maintain our intel, while needing improvements after years of downsizing and underfunding, might not be so awful after all.

Prairie

[governsleastgovernsbest]

My pleasure, thanks for your comment.

[cyncooper]

No, not devoted to them...just the interviews in general. While the NPR thread was devoted to wailing and gnashing about his WMD remarks, I plucked out his most interesting quote about "what their inspections found indicated Iraq was potentially (he does sometimes qualify it with "potential") more dangerous than we had thought".

When I highlighted it, some wondered what it could mean. The only thing I could think of was terrorist ties and evidence of plots being assembled. One anti-Bush person assured me it was spin.

Glad to see Kay keep repeating this. Finally heard him in the Brokaw interview point to robust missile production and terrorism. I see on Today he says "terrorists attracted to Iraq like flies to honey" (my quotes all paraphrased from memory). The truth of that will come out---is coming out---and prove that the dem line that "going into Iraq strenghtened terrorists" as wrong.

[mystery-ak]

That's true...all they will hear is *over 500 soldiers died for Bush's mistake*...

[Mo1]

I maintain our intel, while needing improvements after years of downsizing and underfunding, might not be so awful after all.

I agree .. and I think that is the point that Kay was trying to make in this interview

He didn't completely knock them .. just said that we need better intelligence over in that area of the world ..

[prairiebreeze]

radials = radicals

Thinking snow tires here this morning, sigh

Prairie

[cyncooper]

Oh, and I looked last night for a Brokaw thread and couldn't find one. If I find a transcript and nobody else has posted it yet, I'll do so.

I'll guess Lauer modeled his interview on Brokaw's example.

[prairiebreeze]

From your fingertips to God's ears cyn!

One anti-Bush person assured me it was spin.

LOL!

Thanks, Praire

[chatham]

Perhaps they have been given a "Heads up" to tone down their Bias ,since the networks are not in the best of shape and need to come to a more "Fair and Balanced " Position.

[1rudeboy]

Nicely done.

[cyncooper]

BTW, I love your Today Show monitoring. You really provide a great service.

[alrea]

Kay: "It was absolutely prudent to go to war. The system was collapsing, Iraq was a country with desire to develop WMDs, and it was attracting terrorists like flies to honey."

There could be a jewel that was sent to Syria to be smuggled to DC. If it exists, it will be DC.

Thanks to the Today Show for realizing how dangerous this is. Thanks to Kay and the Today Show for not putting the priority on getting fellow Liberals back in the White House. It literally might not be there if the worst is true.

[prairiebreeze]

Don't worry, when the President starts campaigning his message will be heard.

Prairie

[DBrow]

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[SquirrelKing]

I sensed a surprisingly supportive tone in the manner in which Matt framed his questions.

Okay, maybe I was isogeting Lauer's approach a bit. Was Matt having "Fair and Balanced" moment?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I'll guess Lauer modeled his interview on Brokaw's example.

I'd say you're exactly right, and indeed at one point Lauer even quoted from Kay's interview with Brokaw.

[alrea]

He said Bush just told him to search for the truth

Would DEAN Edwards Karey Clinton(either) Gore put it this way if they had a shot at a poll improvement?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Was Matt having "Fair and Balanced" moment?

I think he was. It will be interesting to see if this reoccurs, or if the NBC honchos will take him aside and warn him "look, we Dems have an election to win. Get on the team, or get off the bus!"