How many lies does it take to excite a journalist?
By Libby
You remember Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki? He was the hapless soul who made the fatal mistake of telling the truth to the Senate about Iraq in February 25, 2003. He gave them an honest assessment when asked how many troops it would take to make the "war" work?
Shinseki probably read the NIE report. Which report, you ask? Bob Geiger has the answer.
Bob also has the handy guide to which traitorous politicians still want to keep the truth from the public and voted against the release of the report. I'm sure you'll be shocked to learn they're all Republicans.
The White House has been actively rewriting that history ever since they forced Shinseki to retire in 03. Cheney and Bush have repeatedly claimed that Saddam didn't allow the UN inspectors into Iraq. A fairy tale that was picked up by Mitt Romney in the debates. Steve Benen has Mitt's bizarre response to a question about Iraq where repeats the fiction. Click over. You have to read it to believe it.
It's a lie. There's nothing else to call it. Saddam did let in the UN inspectors and they didn't find any WMDs because there were no WMDs to be found. Steve asks if they think we won't remember. I want to know why our do-nothing professional media elites aren't calling them out on lying about it.
You remember Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki? He was the hapless soul who made the fatal mistake of telling the truth to the Senate about Iraq in February 25, 2003. He gave them an honest assessment when asked how many troops it would take to make the "war" work?
"Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably a figure that would be required," said Shinseki, a highly-decorated officer with almost four decades of service, including extensive combat duty in Vietnam. "We're talking about a post-hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems."
Shinseki probably read the NIE report. Which report, you ask? Bob Geiger has the answer.
The report, which the previous Republican Congress successfully kept from being produced for two years, shows that months before the Iraq invasion, the White House knew from U.S. intelligence agencies that a civil war would likely erupt after Saddam's ouster, that al-Qaeda would quickly move to exploit the American occupation and that Osama bin Laden's organization would actually gain strength globally due to Bush's action.Read the excerpts at Bob's place. Rockefeller copped out and wouldn't point the finger at Bush but could it be any more obvious that the White House lied through its teeth at the time of the invasion? They knew that Iraq was going to turn into this mess and they did it anyway.
Bob also has the handy guide to which traitorous politicians still want to keep the truth from the public and voted against the release of the report. I'm sure you'll be shocked to learn they're all Republicans.
Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-MO)Burr is my guy. He's such a abomination but his seat doesn't come up until 2011 at least. I don't know how to put pressure on him. I lived in Massachusetts most of my life. I'm used to senators that vote my side of the fence. What do you do when you're represented by two Republicans? It's a weird feeling. But I digress.
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
John Warner (R-VA)
The White House has been actively rewriting that history ever since they forced Shinseki to retire in 03. Cheney and Bush have repeatedly claimed that Saddam didn't allow the UN inspectors into Iraq. A fairy tale that was picked up by Mitt Romney in the debates. Steve Benen has Mitt's bizarre response to a question about Iraq where repeats the fiction. Click over. You have to read it to believe it.
It's a lie. There's nothing else to call it. Saddam did let in the UN inspectors and they didn't find any WMDs because there were no WMDs to be found. Steve asks if they think we won't remember. I want to know why our do-nothing professional media elites aren't calling them out on lying about it.
posted by Libby Spencer at 8:01 PM
4 Comments:
I'm actually a little shocked how out of it the republicans are on iraq and all that stuff.
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Are they really out of it Lester or just deliberately lying? I think it's the latter. Bush taught them they could lie and the average Joe will never catch it and the media will never report it.
there's some of that, but even during the debates. bush is at 30% largely because of this war. and yet they are all basically for staying the course, except ron paul obviously.
They are fighting over who gets to win that 30%. They won't appeal to moderates with that attitude.
That's true Lester. It's those 30% that pick the candidate. But winning over the base will lost them the general because the other 70% of American is no longer buying the White House line they're selling.
The only thing that might save them is if Iraq really kicks us out. The parliament is moving towards that.
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