The Washington Post Deserts Lefty
Liberal bastion of leftist thought, the Washington Post on Sunday ran the following editorial, excerpted here:
- PRESIDENT BUSH was right to approve the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make clear why he had believed that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons. Presidents are authorized to declassify sensitive material, and the public benefits when they do. But the administration handled the release clumsily, exposing Mr. Bush to the hyperbolic charges of misconduct and hypocrisy that Democrats are leveling.
- The material that Mr. Bush ordered declassified established, as have several subsequent investigations, that Mr. Wilson was the one guilty of twisting the truth. In fact, his report supported the conclusion that Iraq had sought uranium.
Gee Lefty, even YOUR newspapers are beginning to abandon the fever swamps of YOUR party. Karl Rove must have made them do it, right? (hat tip to AceofSpades)
posted by SCC at 6:18 AM
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YA HOO #1
NOW THAT I HAVE THAT OUT OF MY SYSTEM. WAY TO GO POST. WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING AND SO IS PRESIDENT BUSH. STICK TO YOUR GUNS, GEORGE. THERE WILL BE PEACE AND PROSPERITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. OK, MAYBE NOT IN MY LIFETIME, BUT IT WILL HAPPEN.
This Downes guy didn't got to my now defunct high school, did he?
Maybe the priest and teachers hit hime in the head too much. Coach Yore probably did his patented hallway locker slam and gave him brain damage.
Leaks Against Joe Wilson Never "Rebutted" Anything
The White House never tried to rebut Joe Wilson's charges. Quite the opposite.
Right after Wilson's op-ed piece appeared in the Times, Ari Fleischer said "There is zero, nada, nothing new here." The White House National Security Council then followed up, stating "Knowing all that we know now, the reference to Iraq's attempt to acquire uranium from Africa should not have been included in the State of the Union speech."
And then, George Tenet publicly disclosed those parts of the National Intelligence Estimate addressing uranium from Africa. If anything, the NIE seemed to validate Wilson's charges. So Tenet admitted that the famous 16 words, "did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for Presidential speeches, and CIA should have ensured that it was removed."
So by July 11, 2003, Joe Wilson's allegation -- that the uranium-from-Africa intelligence was always flimsy and was sexed up in the State of the Union address -- was no longer disputed. Meaning Wilson's motivations and veracity were irrelevant.
But thee days later, Robert Novak's column outed Wilson's wife. A week after that, Andrea Mitchell told Joe Wilson, "I heard in the White House that people were touting the Novak column and that that was the real story."
You can't declassify something AFTER the damage is done, just to cover your ass. This is B.S. and Bush II should be called on it!
the worst president we ever had was bill clinton....no over president we had was involved in so much scandal and lies.....did you know that 79 "took the fifth" on the china gate scandal....did you know that his wife hillary took 1.2 million dollars in campaign donations from a two time convicted felon.....now she's saying she didn't know...but she's been on the news talking about how convicted felons should be able to vote...what bullshit...listen to 560am you'll learn a lot...
Still can't find those WMD's...
Sounds like more blah, blah, blah from the liberal lefty commie pinko sore loser dumbocrats. Suck it up. Your guy lost and ours won. Get over it already.
"William Golding says, "George W. Bush has a simmering hidden agenda, which was fomented in the halls of a covert University group to which he belonged, and whose aim is to perpetuate a wealth based aristocratic class of families, companies and individuals, and he believes that he and his family are central players in this insane comedy."
Geezzzzz, have you graduated to a crack pipe???????
Hmmmm Yale, skulls and bones, etc.
5252 wpalmer, you went to high school? Were you ever locked up? Your blog is senseless. Your mommie is callin you, now get goin.
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