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Liberal Slant Web Pub. ^ | 3-19-03 | William Rivers Pitt

Posted on 05/06/2003 1:34:45 AM PDT by JustPiper

An associate of mine, a former political appointee, recently spoke to a Republican friend of his who serves in a senior position in what has become the Office of Homeland Security. He reports that this official, along with many of his colleagues across the political spectrum within the apparatus of government, are absolutely terrified of George W. Bush. According to this official, the consensus is that Bush has completely lost touch with reality, and is bringing us to a place where politics will no longer matter.

A London newspaper, the Guardian, has quoted a source close to the administration as saying, "This has been the worst diplomatic debacle of our lifetime." A senior White House official is also quoted as saying, in a voice reportedly awash with sarcasm, "There's a recognition that this has not been our finest diplomatic hour."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hateful; liberal; president
My mouth is just hanging open. I came across this by complete accident in a search. I couldn't even bear to put the entire article.
1 posted on 05/06/2003 1:34:45 AM PDT by JustPiper
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To: JustPiper
The writer is obviously paranoid. Ah well, in his mind, madness beats acknowledging Bush was right about anything.

Regards, Ivan

2 posted on 05/06/2003 1:37:41 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
Hi Ivan, oviously, but are not people like this potentially dangerous?
3 posted on 05/06/2003 1:39:28 AM PDT by JustPiper (If we are deemed 'far right wingers', does that make them 'left side wrongers'?)
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To: JustPiper
Hi Ivan, oviously, but are not people like this potentially dangerous?

Under normal circumstances, I'd say yes. But William Rivers Pitt is apparently a weedy little thing that would be easy to dust up. Really, someone should just give him his Prozac and have done with it.

Regards, Ivan

4 posted on 05/06/2003 1:41:04 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: JustPiper
Chill! This writer is a well known idiot, best left completely ignored.
5 posted on 05/06/2003 1:41:21 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: JustPiper
If memory serves, this author recently co-wrote a book with Scott Ritter. Beyond the fringes of rational discourse.
6 posted on 05/06/2003 1:41:40 AM PDT by inkling
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To: inkling
If memory serves, this author recently co-wrote a book with Scott Ritter.

And said book is sitting in stacks in the back of many bookstores to this day. That, or providing a doorstop.

Regards, Ivan

7 posted on 05/06/2003 1:43:09 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
Well, guys I've had many scarey ventures tonight, I guess I'll write this one up to that!
8 posted on 05/06/2003 1:46:50 AM PDT by JustPiper (If we are deemed 'far right wingers', does that make them 'left side wrongers'?)
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"There's a recognition that this has not been our finest diplomatic hour

Well, considering what is being accomplished with this lack of diplomacy this hour, let's just hope it lasts a few hours more.

9 posted on 05/06/2003 1:48:03 AM PDT by EGPWS
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Aw, you should have posted it verbatim... many readers won't follow links, so they miss the delicious flavor of this amazingly biased piece of rubbish:

The so-called Liberal Media are owned by large Conservative corporations that dictate control over biased news reporting in major newspapers and on major television networks. The media are conservative just like their owners and sponsors. You're getting the "News" the way that they want you to see it.

Give 'em credit; they lead with an old, but still popular, talking point.

Another hoary old TP:

Bush has been skittering around the fact that he went AWOL during his term of military service for over three years now...

Hey, here's a new TP:

devoid of any form of international morality...

Then there's The Ghost of VIETNAM:

It's ironic that at the same time U.S. military teams are desperately looking for evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, specifically chemical weapons, an extensive scientific report was just released on the massive use of the chemical Agent Orange by the U.S. in Vietnam...

I could go on, but it's a veritable "quagmire" of TP's....

10 posted on 05/06/2003 1:48:13 AM PDT by backhoe (A nuke for every Kook ( NK, Iraq, Iran, Pak, India... )- what a Clinton "legacy...")
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To: JustPiper
He reports that this official, along with many of his colleagues across the political spectrum within the apparatus of government, are absolutely terrified of George W. Bush.

GOOD! We can only hope the same is true of the State Department.

11 posted on 05/06/2003 1:53:21 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: JustPiper
An associate of mine, a former political appointee, recently spoke to a Republican friend of his who serves in a senior position in what has become the Office of Homeland Security.

A friend of a friend who knows somebody says......boy, there is a solid source of information.

12 posted on 05/06/2003 1:54:37 AM PDT by Always Right
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MadIvan

I havn't seen your posts for awhile.

Nice to see them again.

Regards
13 posted on 10/27/2003 6:03:48 AM PST by ckilmer
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