Posted on 05/18/2009 2:45:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The fight over national security increasingly threatens to drag the United States into a political civil war that could also fracture Barack Obama's political base.
It is turning the President's own Democratic allies into potential enemies, while undermining his domestic priorities in health care and energy reform.
Yesterday, New York Times columnist Frank Rich pointed all eyes to the website of Gentleman's Quarterly, which has posted a series of cover sheets to ultra-top-secret intelligence updates that former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld used to prepare daily for former president George W. Bush.
It turns out that the cover sheets routinely showed pictures of tanks and troops with exhortatory quotes from Scripture. On April 3, 2003, shortly after the Pentagon began circulating a false account of the "rescue" of Private Jessica Lynch as a distraction from setbacks in the war, the briefing was prefaced with a quote from the Book of Joshua.
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." The cover sheets can be found at http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret
The former president, it would seem, could be influenced by such things.
These embarrassments will further fuel the demands in Congress and the media for a full inquiry into the acts of the previous administration surrounding national security and the war in Iraq.
Those debates are consuming an increasing amount of political oxygen, distracting Congress and the administration from Mr. Obama's domestic agenda.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is herself under fire over when and whether she was briefed on the Bush administration's interrogation techniques, called last week for a "truth commission" to "determine how intelligence was misused, and how controversial and possibly illegal activities like torture were authorized within the Executive Branch."
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Who released the top secret cover sheets to Gentlemans Quarterly so hey could print them and why?
It appears there are no top secrets an longer. except Obama’s Birth Certificate.
And the proles (who once were know as “citizens”) will gasp in awe and anger...JUST in the nick of time to save Pro-Consul Pelosi...
I wonder who Pelosi is now beholden to?
Who released the top secret ...
And, who takes the pictures that hurt our military?
Who are they & WHY do they do this????
I’d like their names released.
How long do they think they can keep on with that “Bush is a moron” meme, now that Barry is tripping over his tongue on a daily basis?
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Apparently forever, they still try to pretend that Al Gore is a genius and an oracle of truth, if they can do that they will never give up on the idea that Obama is a genius and Bush is an idiot.
Could this be the fate of Queen Nancy?
Wizard of Oz 1- Wicked Witch Melting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfV_ENR5IZE
“It turns out that the cover sheets routinely showed pictures of tanks and troops with exhortatory quotes from Scripture...
These embarrassments will further fuel the demands in Congress and the media for a full inquiry into the acts of the previous administration surrounding national security and the war in Iraq.”
I’m missing what is supposedly “embarrassing” here.
“If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.” Mark 8:38
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