Let the excuses start to fly.
Let’s hear them. C’mon I know you have them ready. How many times are insiders going to tell you about this Bush administration before you quit lying to yourself?
C’mon let’s hear them.
O’Neil was a coward, Clarke was a liar because he was friends with a democrat and now what is Collin Powell ?
C’mon think of something good.
It should be clear now that removing Saddam Hussein from power did not strike a blow to terrorism but enhanced it. Al-Qaeda and Muslim fundamentalism in general he saw as a threat to his power. He had Iraq on lock down. Al-Qaeda didn’t exist there.
They do now.
Thanks Dubs.
Even Kadhafi said in a televised speech addressing an audience of Libyan police officers just within the last week that Saddam's fall has not dealt a blow to terror.
"Far from it: it has found a bigger opportunity to flourish," he said, "The Al-Qaeda network did not exist before in Iraq, and now it is there, along with the renegades," said Kadhafi. "They are fighting there (in Iraq) today; they are happy to be falling as martyrs before US and British soldiers, and want the front to broaden to Iran and Syria, to arrive in Palestine," the Libyan leader added. "The security of the whole world is threatened," he said.
It didn’t take long before people within the administration went into damage control mode again and started attacking Powell ’s character after it came out that he helped Woodward write his book about the Bush administration.
”Critics of Powell in the hawkish wing of the administration said they were startled by what they saw as his self-serving decision to help fill out a portrait that enhances his reputation as a farsighted analyst, perhaps at the expense of Bush.”
At the expense of Bush? That’s funny.
So what is Powell supposed to say, that it was his idea to go in front of the UN with forged documents and trumped up charges to remove Saddam?
Well I mean he should come clean and say that if it was his idea but something tells me that it wasn’t.
I dunno, maybe it was the fact that after he did go do the "dog and pony show "at the UN he hinted that whether Bush was reelected or not he wouldn’t be a part of his administration again.
His choice.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell according to this latest Woodward book are so upset with one another over the Iraq war that they are barely on speaking terms.
Somehow Dick Cheney doesn’t strike me as the kind of person that would be holding it against Powell for lying to the UN.
My only advice to Powell is that he’d better be careful dissing the President of the United States like that.
Now it seems the Bush administration is bracing themselves for the next name to add to the list.
Joseph Wilson , the husband of the CIA agent who was “outed” by someone within the Bush administration for disapproving of the Niger-Iraq WMD lie that they tried to sell to the UN is writing a book. The title of his book is: "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity."
Wilson says he will not appear on TV or do interviews or columns for any other media outlet.
Well at least Dubya won’t have to deal with this one for long. If Wilson isn't doing interviews or having public appearances to promote the book he will be out of sight out of mind to the American people that much quicker.
Americans don’t read anyway. We need television to tell us that a book has come out.
So Dubya, who’s enjoying his lowest approval rating of his presidency is dealing with a growing number of Americans feeling less sure about this “let’s vanquish the world of evil-doers” shit, was reportedly was irate with Spain's new leader Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, when he spoke with him on the telephone after he announced he was pulling all of his troops out of Iraq saying that his abrupt withdrawal of troops from Iraq gives "false comfort to terrorists."
No surprise to anyone, Honduras announced the day after Spain announced that they were removing their troops that that they plan to withdraw its 370 troops out of Iraq as well.
This was no surprise because Spain was actually their ride back home. Bush didn’t have any harsh words for Honduras because I think it’s assumed since Honduras doesn’t have a working telephone what Bush said to Zapatero applies to them too.
Watch the Bush administration suddenly start a unilateral boycott of bananas or something.
I’m sure if they could they would “out” one of their spies like they did ours but Honduras dosen’t have spies.
They do have bananas however so you have to go with what you’ve got.
I dunno, I liken Iraq to a house party that is being thrown by some guy down at the office and you go just because it looks like he’s invited everyone. However once you get there you see that most of the people that said that they were coming had no intention of going and in the end it’s just you and a handful of suckers are sitting around waiting on the first opportunity to bolt.
As soon as the first person to break ranks and leaves everyone else starts to grab their coats too. No one wants to be the first to tell the guy that they have to leave but they sure don’t want to be the last person either.
What I find interesting is that today Dubya is calling John Negroponte, the first post-war American ambassador to Iraq “a man of enormous experience and skill" and "has done a really good job of speaking for the United States to the world about our intentions to spread freedom and peace," what I want to know is what they will be saying about Negroponte’s character in 12 months after he writes his book about how much of an idiot Bush is?
Keep that in a notebook somewhere. Write it down. “ John Negroponte is a man of enormous experience and skill" and "has done a really good job of speaking for the United States to the world about our intentions to spread freedom and peace."
Fast forward 12 months, assuming he lives long enough in Iraq to resign…”Negroponte was an alcoholic cross dresser who was always jealous of the president. You can't believe a word he says.”