President Bush said in a speech last week that it was “irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.” But isn’t that what the administration has been trying to do?
As an Eagle reader noted in a letter to the editor Sunday, “we and the world heard: of the imminent danger posed by weapons of mass destruction; that we couldn’t wait to verify the existence of an Iraqi nuclear arsenal, because the ’smoking gun might be in the form of a mushroom cloud’; and that there was a direct tie between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and al-Qaida.”
But after we invaded and learned that none of this turned out to be true, suddenly the war was about spreading freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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Nah, it’s about oil.
How many people are aware that Semantic, a virus program blocked subscribers from receiving the link to the Downing street memos?
Semantic blocked people receiving in email the link.
No one is rewriting history, Dubbya wanted to play soldier, but not in uniform.
Dubya doesn’t want people righting history after his rewrite.Well look where that has gotten him, his own pals are openly defying him.
What’s even more ironic is that the Administration fought like hell against the writing of any official ‘history’ in the first place. They only allowed the investigation of pre-war intelligence on the condition that the question NOT be addressed of whether the Administration leaned on the CIA to ’sex up’ the information being presented to the public.
Now that Bush is cornered, this business about ‘rewriting history’ is just the start of the nastiness. But the nastier Bush gets, the lower his numbers will go. Pull up a chair and watch the downward spiral; the only worry is that he’ll take us all with him.
Bush didn’t lie people. Man! The leftist/Democrat propaganda has replaced the facts.
Must be some really persuasive leftists to have the rightists agreeing with them now.Maybe they’re torturing them and the rightists are just telling the torturers what they want to hear.
Joe Williams,
Read the link.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/11/eveningnews/main1041302.shtml
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleeza Rice all knowingly and willingly used false information and misrepresentations on a variety of issues to make the case for war.
George Bush is a liar. He lied about the evidence for WMD and about the purported connections between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
George Bush willfully lied about threats to the United States in order to persuade the American people to support the invasion of Iraq.
Bottom line: Bush is a liar, and now that people realize it, his presidency isn’t coming back.
Oh! Like I trust CBS news. They blew their crediablity with Rather Gate.
Who Is Lying About Iraq?A campaign of distortion aims to discredit the liberation.
Here is a good source from the Wall Street Journal!
I doubt you will read it or believe it. You are involved so deeply for your hate of Bush that you are blinded by the truth and you want to believe with all of your might, that the left propaganda is the truth, but it isn’t. Just distorted misinformation. The left use you guys all the time. They want you to believe it.
Well! I for one, look pass the bull scat and know what is really going on.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007540
Sorry Joe, YOU’RE the one blinded by the truth. It’s so obvious I’m amazed you’re stll denying it.Why would Bush have to change the rational for the war at least 3 times if he went into it being honest? He’s the one who kept rewriting the goals of his “mission” when each one didn’t pan out.It will be interesting to see what he comes up with now that the Senate is pressuring him about his “exit strategy”. He’s worn out every lie he has told so far. That’s part of the problem, he’s a liar, but too stupid to be any good at it.
Sorry Joe, YOU’RE the one blinded by the truth. It’s so obvious I’m amazed you’re stll denying it.Why would Bush have to change the rational for the war at least 3 times if he went into it being honest? He’s the one who kept rewriting the goals of his “mission” when each one didn’t pan out.It will be interesting to see what he comes up with now that the Senate is pressuring him about his “exit strategy”. He’s worn out every lie he has told so far. That’s part of the problem, he’s a liar, but too stupid to be any good at it.
AHHHH!!! The double post AGAIN!
Joe Williams,
Don’t trust CBS? Fine. Here’s Walter Pincus from the Washington Post, reporting the same thing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR2005110501267.html
This is fact, Joe Williams. If it contradicts your ideological fantasies and Bush-worship, too bad.
George Bush lied in the run-up to war, and goes on lying in the present. The evidence is plain for anyone who isn’t deluded and tied into defending this criminal and dishonest administration.
If Bush isn’t a liar, stupid beyond belief is all that’s left. Take your choice, but neither have any place in our White House!After this debacle, I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re asked to turn him over to The Hague for a war crimes trial! He can plead imbecility, and they’d believe it and be lenient. That may be the only way to restore at least a little of our credibility as a nation.
Joe, I think who lied depends in part on which side of the isle you sit on.I’m pretty sure there’s some lies coming from both sides.I think it’s called politics!
Tracy, you may be right, but which side are we getting lies from that are getting a whole lot of people killed? Politics? I’d call it murder.
Joe Williams,I’ve read in previous poats where you said you didn’t like Bush. Do I recall you saying you didn’t vote for him? You sure seem to be carrying his water.
The republicans are trying to pass this off as all a big mistake. I submit that we don’t have the option of a mistake of this magnitude. This one has cost thousands of lives. This is a criminal mistake and should be prosecuted.
I’m sure that Mr. Brownlee knows that what Mr. Bush was referring to is the fact that many of the democrat hypocrits who are pushing this “Bush lied-People died” baloney, themselves were hawks on the war. They looked at the same intelligence as the administration and drew the same conclusions.
Since the mainstream media, (including the Eagle) are giving them a pass on it, it has been a very effective, if dishonest attack. I think that this fraud is going to be exposed and when it is, there will be a backlash.
No one is happy that the intelligence was flawed. But the democrats blatant efforts to play politics with our troops in harm’s way is shameful.
And Bush’s lies that put our troops in harm’s way is shameful, too.
Libs, if you have any self-respect PLEASE, don’t paste this link into your browser and play the video.
http://gop.com/
XXX, just because I’m not too fond of Bush, nor did I vote for him is correct, but that doesn’t skew me from the truth.
Did Bush make mistakes on the war on terror? Yes! Did he make mistakes or was handed maybe not the best intelligence on Iraq? Yes!
Did he lie or diliberatly misinformed Congress and the American public? No! I do not believe that. Only leftist believe that.
Remember! This is the same information that the Democrats and even Clinton had.
Lets face it! Bush made a few mistakes, but he did not dilibratly lie. But I do agree with his policy on the war on terror. I’m NOT a terrorist appeaser.
So. It looks like Cheney was the ’senior administration official’ who leaked Valerie Plame’s name to Bob Woodward.
Traitor.
Senior Democrat Rep. John Murtha is calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/17/murtha.iraq/index.html
“Remember! This is the same information that the Democrats and even Clinton had.”Clinton didn’t have anything to do with a war with Iraq. He had been out of office for nearly 2 years. The Democrats were shown the compromised intelligence doctored by you know who.Do you own a little white cane and dark glasses?
Joe,How many of these kind of m”mistakes” do you think a president can make? It isn’t like he just lost his wallet or something; he’s gotten a lot of people killed through bad judgement. Congress DID NOT have the same intel because the administration surpressed anything that didn’t support their rush to war. No matter how you look at it, this is a huge screw up. If Bush didn’t know, he should have and he’s criminally negligent. If he did know and surpressed the facts, he’s a traitor and needs to be impeached.
But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, at least for this discussion. We’ll call it a “mistake”. That means we have a blithering incompetent for president. Somehow, that’s not very comforting.
Bush didn’t lie, so which means he was also duped. By whom, I wonder… And why didn’t anybody warned him that he’s being led like a goat to the altar?
XXX
We ought to send some archeologists to Crawford Texas and see if they can uncover any other “Knuckle-draggers.”
Congress did not receive the same intel that the White was looking at.
Congress only got intel that had been “cooked” by the White House.
AW, yes, the “cover-up” begins.