Pardon me while I mark this day in red on my calendar.
Tano has used the word “lied” in a sentence that didn’t contain “Bush”.
Amazing. Simply amazing.
The 9/11 commission was composed of elder statesmen and variously qualified former beauracrats. It was bipartisan in composition as far as the two main parties chose their own representatives and the numbers balanced.
None of those sitting members were sworn to uphold any particular duty, just to investigate and interview all the parties and policies leading up to 9/11. None of those commission members worries about elections.
The Senate Intelligence committee, on the other hand, is composed of the most powerful men in Washington, D.C., who are seated by election and have taken oaths. It is much harder for them to misrepresent or ‘spin’ the text of reports or testimony submitted to them. That doesn’t mean they can’t try, of course. I liked the trial balloon that was floated the very day the official, UNANIMOUSLY accepted report and conclusions was released (grammar…?) that the Dems were going to publish their OWN opinions in an unofficial addendum, as a matter of course.
The Senate report contradicts Wilson’s spiel only where it counts – that his wife was in fact the reason he got tapped, that Iraq did in fact have contacts and demonstrated intent to buy yellowcake, and that the CIA viewed his tea-drinking interviews as bolstering that conclusion, vice the exact opposite version Wilson presented.
Strip away the partisan crap for just a moment. Really. We have tens of thousands of men, thousands of KIA/WIA citizens and allies,and hundreds of billions of dollars all committed to a published doctrine and strategy aimed at ending the cancer that is Islamofascism.
The “Sixteen Words” were siezed upon as a trope to discredit removing Hussein because the other reasons like U.N. non-compliance, non-compliance with the Gulf War resolutions of 1991, support of terror, and the collapsing sanctions regime were undeniabling valid – especially in light of the realities post 9/11. GATHERING threat that we could not abide in addition to dealing with al Qaeda…never, ever called ‘imminent’ except by partisan hacks and their toadies in the press pool.
The Sixteen Words were based on intelligence reports of an ally…and noted as such because our data wasn’t good enough, but they stood by theirs. Having Joe Wilson to hand, with what is increasingly apparent as a premeditated, scripted bunch of lies was the weapon of the moment available for use…
and he’s a stone liar, caught in his own testimony, editorial, and book statement conflicts with source documents and sworn testimony.
“…may have lied.”? Bullshit. Where’s YOUR outrage, pardner? I thought the meme from the Enlightened Left was ‘a lie invalidates EVERYTHING’ when applied to Bush…and it is tacitly agreed that mistakes/setbacks/unknowables are assumed to be lies, of course, because BUSH is the president?
‘…may have lied.’? Last time I waste any of Roger’s bandwidth on you. Period.
I don’t think the Republicans are above reproach. i don’t assign the power of governance based on a label. I am trying to sift through the bullshit and see what my government is doing to protect my family and as the election draws near it becomes crystal clear that the loyal opposition ended in November of 2002 and has morphed into something not short of an enemy asset by July 2004.
My email is on my signature. My name is A.R. Jones, and I live in Orem, Utah, and I’m in the book…which facts have always been available to anyone who emailed me.
I apologize for the blue language. There are times when there is nothing for it but to put the right word where it belongs.
