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Posted By ProudBlueTexan 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsWASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday he was disappointed in "flawed intelligence" before the Iraq war and was concerned that if a Democrat wins the presidency in November and withdrew troops prematurely it could "eventually lead to another attack on the United States."
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 1 month ago
One more time for emPHAsis:
President Bush said Tuesday he was disappointed in "flawed intelligence" before the Iraq war and was concerned that if a Democrat wins the presidency in November and withdrew troops prematurely it could "eventually lead to another attack on the United States."
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
One more time for emphasis. Bush is STILL lying to Americans. Here is the CIA agent who gave the daily national security briefings to Reagan.
Proof Bush Deceived America
James Risen's State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, may hold bigger secrets than the disclosure that President George W. Bush authorized warrantless eavesdropping on Americans.
Risen's book also confirms the most damning element of the British Cabinet Office memos popularly called the "Downing Street memos;" namely, that "the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy." The result is it is no longer credible to maintain that the failures in the Iraqi intelligence were the product of a broken intelligence community. The Bush administration deliberately fabricated the case against Iraq, lying to Congress and the American people along the way....
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/01/13/pro...
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jordan111 year, 1 month ago
What does 'flawed intelligence' mean? The intelligence THEY manipulated to make their case? The "mushroom cloud" BULL SH*T AFTER they were informed there was no evidence to substantiate the claim that those metal tubes were used for nuke material? The evidence that SCIENTISTS gave the morons that those metal tubes couldn't hold nuke material? WTF IS HE BABBLING ABOUT?
IRAQ DID NOT ATTACK US!!!!!!!! PULLING OUT OF IRAQ WILL NOT LEAD TO AN ATTACK ON US!!! If 'terrorists' have plans, it won't matter if we're in Iraq or not, they're going to attack us! We have let our infrastructure go unprotected for SEVEN FREAKING YEARS! People with bad intentions have had plenty of time to bring in their weapons. Bush is pulling out the worn fear card, and anyone who believes it is as nutty as he is!
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 1 month ago
Additionally:
"I didn't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," he said."
Damn presidential of you, george!
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tanglang1 year, 1 month ago
If W would have just stood up against the illegal invasion of our land he would go down as one of the greats. I still think he should, but with an asterisk.
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donald511 year, 1 month ago
Tang , don't forget he votoed healthcare for 10 million poor kids, vetoed the Defense spending bill because it would have allowed tortured soldiers to sue Sadam, the Katrina debacle, the port deal debacle, the Harriet Miers Debacle, the Plamegate debacle, ignoring a brief titled "OBL Determined to Attack Inside the Usa", setting a record for a president on vacation, conducting premptive war for which we hanged 11 Natzis, allowing torture for which we hanged 3 japanese, throwing out 800 years of accpted western law (habeus corpus)... and you still think he was great? You fail all sanity checks! You prove there is a valid reason why psychiatists feel you fools would have supported Hitler too!
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GWHayduke1 year, 1 month ago
One of the great "What"?
A great destroyer?
A great manipulator?
A great liar?
A great deciderer?
The great Orator?!?!?!
What great thing has this administration accomplished?
Stagnant economic growth?
Depletion of resources to rebuild an infrastructure of a country he needlessly destroyed?.......While the US infrastructure suffers.
Building diplomatic relations throughout the globe?
What a ridiculous, laughable statement.
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ADAGUY1 year, 1 month ago
"IF" the dog hadn't stopped to sh!t, he'd have caught the rabbit!
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greenmac1 year, 1 month ago
AG/Tang when are you going to wake up and smell the roses. GWB was and is the worst thing that has ever happened to the USA in modern history. AG your quote about about him finding the lord is enough to make me sick...this is a man that uses religion not has religion. Tis type of statement reflects badly on religion when it comes from a man like Bush.
Tang can you show me where Bush has made the uS and the world a better place?
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tanglang1 year, 1 month ago
Those 10 million kids would have bee covered well by the expansion Bush asked for. We could have bought them each an Escalade with the expansion he rightfully vetoed.
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
LOL
The worst thing that happened to this country was President carter. I used to believe he was just incompetent. He goes on proving he was not just incompetent but evil. He gave us Iran of today.
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truthiness1 year, 1 month ago
recently a story was posted on propeller which was an interview with a man named Kay, who was in charge of following up on the WMD intelligence in Iraq after the invasion.
in this interview he stated that (paraphrase) due to his inability to find any confirmation of any of the intelligence he began to investigate the source of the intelligence.
he discovered that an iraqi defector, code named curveball, had been held by german intelligence and this was the source of the intelligence. no one outside german intelligence had been allowed access to the defector. even when asked by the CIA. this was the only source of intelligence for WMDs in Iraq.
my conclusions: a) since none of the intelligence proved true..he was lied to. b) starting a war based on one unconfirmed source is at minimum criminal negligence.
disappointed... are you kidding me? tell all the dead people how disappointed you are.
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
LOL
You obviously haven't kept up on the real source of the WMD story. Hussein was having the data created to keep Iran from attacking. He convinced all intelligence agencies of it. Intelligence agencies will never accept one point of contact for any story. They have to have multiple sources. Hussein was one of the few who could cause that to happen.
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markmawn21 year, 1 month ago
"One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as commander in chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."
Governor Bush to his biographer and friend in 1999
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donald511 year, 1 month ago
...so one left office with a 65% approval rating and the other is setting a dismal record for being the worst since the poll was started over 70 years... which invalidates your belief of what makes a good pres...
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icono11 year, 1 month ago
FTA:
"And so I would call them stalled. I would call them, so far, good at verbiage and not so good at results."
Nuff said.
I hear that when Comrade OBama, a person very good at verbage, gets into office he will 'talk' to all the antagonists and make everything ok.
Because it is 'all just a simple misunderstanding' for as the line goes in the song Stair Way To Heaven...."sometimes words have two meanings."
An by the way when has our intelligence community ever known anything about anything for sure other than the fact they know they don't know anything about anything for sure?
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markmawn21 year, 1 month ago
A great leader accomplishes nothing alone. A great leader surrounds himself with great people. Those great people go about the business of doing great work for the people.
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markmawn21 year, 1 month ago
The intel could have been branded it onto a 2by4 and planted it forcefully into his face, and he would have ignored it. In fact it was just short of that already!
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Natureboy1 year, 1 month ago
Am I the only one who sees the humor in Bush's disappointment with "flawed intelligence?"
His flawed intelligence, after all, is what he's best known for.
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walden31 year, 1 month ago
It's not right to play golf while the country is at war!?!?!?!
I'm really concerned that President Bush is unbalanced. I don't think he is mentally capable of being president. After he leaves office I bet we see evidence that he became unhinged during his presidency. I mean his well-known outbursts (google it yourself), his choking on a pretzel, the unwanted backrubs to other heads of state, the inappropriateness of his comments, the stupid insulting nicknames, asking blind people to remove their dark glasses, belittling reporters, his interest in baseball and clearing brush, the jokes he made about WMD at the correspondent's dinner, the way he dances. I could go on, but I won't.
I'm telling ya, the boy is a 1/2 bubble off of plumb.
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Wolfie20071 year, 1 month ago
The truth is we went to Iraq, took the country, deposed Saddam, and looks like the terrorist and the insurgents are losing and leaving. Now we have to go back to Afghanistan to clear that out since NATO wasn't capable of going it alone.
Now with Iraq and Afghanistan we have Iran in a squeeze play. No wonder the Iranis want us to leave. Those of you who fear a war with Iran well it's a lot less likely to happen with our present position today. Iran will not want to go to war with the US unless we vacate the area.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 1 month ago
Terrorists and insurgents in Iraq weren't our problem until we 'took the country'.
And we don't have Iran in a squeeze play. We have a thin string of troops along their border. That is a recipe for disaster.
We cannot occupy the middle east.
We should not be trying.
You are playing a 'Risk' board game.
It is getting people killed, turning the world against us, and bankrupting our economy.
It increases the total number of people in the world who see us as the enemy.
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pmcluver1 year, 1 month ago
Bush wanted to go to Iraq-- period. Whatever his motives (Saddam, revenge for Dad, oil) that is a fact and was reported by his advisers. He took the 9/11 incident, that had nothing to do with Iraq and produced a campaign to indelibly link 9/11 to Iraq in the minds of almost all Americans; indeed there are some who still believe it.
Anybody who reads this article and thinks he was mislead by intelligence after the PERFORMANCE by Colin Powell at the UN, is -- words like moron and retard come to mind.
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
The conquest of Iraq was a plank of the PNAC platform well before 9/11. I don't buy that 9/11 was an inside job, but it was certainly a convenient kernel around which a case against Saddam could be built. And built it was!
The question of pre-war 'who-knew-... probably won't be sufficiently answered for years. What IS clear is that there was a big push for making Iraq part of the 'War on Terror'. When that failed, Saddam's WMDs became the rallying cry. Personally, I think Congress (both Rs and Ds) authorized the use of force against Iraq as a way to give teeth to our demand that Iraq comply with UN resolutions. What sense would it make to enter into another war when finding Bin Laden and his ilk was CLEARLY the national priority. Bush took that authorization and ran with it! He had a blank check and a big red pen.
Resources were pulled away from the 'War on Terror' and into Iraq instead.
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hefaa11 year, 1 month ago
More fear mongering by the prick Bush to deflect media scrutiny from his illegal activities/politics and foster fear in the American people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/23/olberm...
KO's timeline: Coincidence?
Not with this poor excuse for a President's creditability.
Warning: Video is 17 minutes long but well worth watching.
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donald511 year, 1 month ago
...shame the media for falling for the better funded, repug, spin/propaganda machine BS! Karl Rove... none better nor so unscrupulous! We need the Fairness Act that current Repugs fight and the Truth in Telecommunications Act that Reagan vetoed!
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LFunches1 year, 1 month ago
If it were not so dangerous it would be tragic. This president and His cronies heve spent six years scaring the hell out of naive people who are blibd enough to believe what they say. In the bname of "National Security" they have tossed out the constitution and commited acts that would otherwise land them in jail. Now here he comes again with the same, tired old mantra of "fear". If we keep selling fear to the peope they won't have time to think about losing their jobs, they wwon't have time to see how their buying power is shrinking. Pump enough fear into them and they will even overlook the mess he and his rich friends have made of the UIS economy. Bush is pathetic and he needs to quietly sit out his days and then leave us the hell alone.
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scott42611 year, 1 month ago
"A question submitted from the online audience asked Bush whether he felt he had been misled about Iraq as he made the decision to go to war.
"'"Misled" is a strong word,' he said. 'Not only our intelligence community, but intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was.'
"'Do I think somebody lied to me? No, I don't. I think it was just, you know, they analyzed the situation and came up with the wrong conclusion,' he added."
This such bulls**t! This is intelligence that his administation manipulated to fit his flimsy case to start this God-forsaken war!
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scott42611 year, 1 month ago
"He acknowledged concerns about leaving the unfinished Iraq war to a Democratic successor. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have said they will bring troops home if elected.
"Bush said his 'doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.'"
This man is nuts! If anything, the "doomsday scenario" he speaks is MUCH more likely to happen if hothead John McCain is elected President!
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scott42611 year, 1 month ago
"..Asked if [global warming] was real, Bush said, 'Yes, it is real, sure is.' Still, he defended his opposition to the Kyoto treaty on climate change. 'I could have supported a lousy treaty and everybody would have went, "Oh, man, what a wonderful-sounding fellow he is." But it just wouldn't have worked.'"
Again, MORE bulls**t! He opposed the Kyoto treaty for one reason and one reason only: because he KNEW it would counter his plans for big profits from the oil industry....pure and simple!
My God, I will not rest 'til this dumbass is OUT of the White House!
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donald511 year, 1 month ago
...like he backed out of the Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty, the Geneva Conventions, the World Court... and life as a sane human being... yes, he should be rotting in a foreign jail guilty of war crimes for which we helped hang Japanese and Germans after WW2. Condi, Cheney and Wolfowitz should be in the came cell as we also ban the RNC for being a terrorist organization!
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