[Wait4Truth]

Boy, we've got 9-11 Bush hit pieces coming from all sides this week! The media paints the President as incompetent once again...I have been emailing these idiots all morning and hope other freepers will do the same. I also think that when the President comes out and makes his case to the American people, the journalists will look like fools once again.

My fellow freepers, many of these hit pieces on FR today are filled with "aides close to the President", unamed sources and "those that wish to remain anonymous"...it is my fondest wish that freepers will bury the media in email demanding that they name names and go back to the having two named sources. We can put a stop to this crap if we bury them in protest. It is not enough to merely carp on this web site.

[Brian Mosely]

No doubt...remember that report earlier this week where it said that Bush signed off on Cheney's speech in Nashville about Iraq...well...looky here...

Newsweek: White House Distances Itself From Cheney Comment On Iraq: 'A Return Of [U.N.] Inspectors Would Provide No Assurance Whatsoever' of Saddam's Compliance With UN Resolutions
Card Says Specific Language Was Not Ordered By Bush; Veep Didn't Check His Iraq Facts With the CIA; State Department Never Saw the Final Text
Sunday September 1, 10:50 am ET

NEW YORK, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- When Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech last week on the need to remove Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from power and said that "a return of [U.N.] inspectors would provide no assurance whatsoever" of Saddam's compliance with U.N. resolutions, he took the White House by surprise, Newsweek reports in the September 9 issue (on newsstands Monday, September 2). Chief Political Correspondent Howard Fineman reports that President George W. Bush hadn't told him to say it.

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  "The president said 'I want you to include the following,'" chief of staff Andy Card tells Newsweek. "We knew the gist, but not every word." Asked if the president had ordered the inspections language, Card said no. Indeed, Cheney didn't repeat it when he gave another speech three days later, and aides claimed he hadn't meant to slam the U.N. door.

  Cheney's speech followed weeks of public warnings by eminent Republicans who fear America would become a pariah if it attacked Saddam Hussein without a new attempt at diplomacy and weapons inspections. So in a videoconference last Monday, President Bush ticked off points he wanted Cheney to make in a speech later that day. Bush and Cheney had had enough and it was "time for a giant pushback," as one aide later put it. The result generated headlines, infuriating a planetful of allies upset by his view that, according to Cheney, the only way to neutralize Iraq was war.

  And critics who accuse Bush of being "unilateralist" don't know the half of it, writes Fineman. His people ignore each other when it suits them. Sources tell Newsweek that the vice president didn't check his Iraq facts with the CIA and the State Department never saw the final text of the speech.

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