> >Of course, there's _also_ the fact that what he said >was true. �He claimed that the British told us that >Iraq was seeking Uranium in Africa. �A true statement. > The British do, in fact, _still_ claim that Iraq was >seeking Uranium in Africa - they stand by the claim. >A doubly true statement. �Finally, the WSJ (on >www.opinionjournal.com) has just printed excerpts from >the National Intelligence Estimate used to prepare the >claim - and it too is quite convincing. �A triply true >statement. �The Bush Administration is not always >perfectly truthful, but in this instance they were >exactly that - Sort of like I did not have sex with that woman. The administration had very good evidence that this story was bogus; from the horse's mouth. the guy who did the report. So the key is not whether you can hide behind the fact that the british thought it was true. That is just playing with words. This was a very important accusation. They knew or should have known it was not true (based on their own investigation). Either they ignored it or created a climate where the CIA would downplay it. Most benign explanation. Tbey made an honest mistake. But wait, if I make the honest mistake of going the wrong way on a superhighway and cause a major accident I am not excused from responsibility by the fact that I had no malicious intent. I am held accountable. And the more important the mistake the more accountable I am held.
yet the mass media and Democratic >partisans have managed to convince almost everyone >that the Administration was lying, when it was, in >fact, telling the truth. That is so twisted. It was telling the truth; it said the >british said the story was true but the administration knew it was not true. That in >my book is worse than a lie. And people wonder why >conservatives talk about media bias. � Many analysts think the media has given bush a very free ride in the coverage of this war. Watching BBC versus CNN or heaven forbid FOX was like watching two different events. It is time for conservatives to stop this BS of media bias. Bush controls the media not the other way around. Let alone the >selfish partisanship of lying to discredit the >President during wartime on the very issue of going to >war, knowing that your lies will be picked up and >believed by a gullible world all too eager to believe >the worst of the United States. � Wait; we are at war because this administration unilaterally committed the country to this course of action. We were told it was necessary because of WMD. Now we find out that some of the proof for these weapons, the rationale for the war was false and that the government either knew or should have known it to be false. How is it unpatriotic to question this? We are putting no one at risk by doing this analysis. Do you really think that more soldiers are dying because of this? Sadam's loyalists and/or their terrorist allies would have come up with another excuse to fan resentment against that. But this was the risk going in. If we did not secure the peace with minimal loss, get Sadamm and restore order quickly we were going to have these problems. So we did what we did quickly but have done poorly on the catching Sadamm and restoring order. Those who were against the war for tactical (not moral reasons) were concerned about these problems and those concerns have turned out to be true. Shame on everyone >involved. �Shame on the Adminstration for not>defending itself better, and even more on those who >slander it for their own partisan advantage or sheer malice. > It can't defend itself better. To claim your narrow version of truth (I didn't say A was true, I said the British said A was true) is a transparent attempt to shift blame. The speech in which Bush made this claim was important. The claim was important. They put it in the speech to prove that we were in danger. If they just had hear say evidence or more accurately they had reason to believe that the evidence was false it should not have been in the speech. >===== >Gautam Mukunda >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >"Freedom is not free" >http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! >http://sbc.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l >
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