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Just Another Measly Bombshell Report

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Posted on Sep 8, 2006

A Senate report on prewar intelligence has concluded that there was no evidence Saddam had ties with Al Qaeda. This is yet another confirmation of what we all, sadly, already know—not only about the realities of Mideast tyrants, but about the realities of liars in the Bush administration. Also, there are new tidbits inside.

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There’s no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President Bush’s justification for invading Iraq.

Bush administration officials have insisted on a link between the Iraqi regime and terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Intelligence agencies, however, concluded there was none.

Republicans countered that there was little new in the report and Democrats were trying to score election-year points with it.

The declassified document released Friday by the intelligence committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.
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By Linda Graves, September 9, 2006 at 6:15 pm #
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Folks, Sen. Pat Roberts has been running interference and stonewalling this entire investigation since it began!  I believe it was over 18 months ago when he promised, in the presence of Vice Chairman Rockefeller, on “Meet the Press” that the second part of this investigation would be completed shortly after the 2004 election.  Like his Boss, he lied, and his actions are completely reprehensible!  The Republican majority on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has overruled every effort made by the Minority members to complete the second portion of the investigation, the second half of which concerns the “misuse of intelligence by the administration”.  That is the part Roberts WILL NOT ALLOW TO GO FORWARD!  This is unconscionable, as EVERY DAY THAT PASSES WITHOUT THE TRUTH BEING REVEALED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC--the hard truth that the Bush administration LIED THIS COUNTRY INTO AN UNNECESSARY WAR-----IS ANOTHER DAY OF DANGER AND DEATH FOR OUR SOLDIERS AND FOR THE IRAQI PEOPLE!  How can the members of this committee sleep at night, knowing that they have the power to “bring this President down” for “high crimes and misdemeanors”, but continue to remain acquiescent to the Majority while more of our soldiers die because of George Bush?
The only reason the latest conclusions came out was the fact that Sen. Snowe and Sen. Hagel, both Repubs, finally joined with the Minority to overrule Roberts!  They deserve much praise for that move!  The American people should contact each and every member of the SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE and INSIST UPON AN IMMEDIATE COMPLETION OF THE FINAL PART OF PHASE II OF THEIR INVESTIGATION----BEFORE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION!!!  The public deserves to know WHO and WHAT they’re voting for, and this committee OWES the public and our soldiers THE TRUTH!
I’ve been writing this Committee for three years now, to no avail.  Everybody out there, let’s put MORE PRESSURE on them to complete their job!!!

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By paul kibble, September 9, 2006 at 8:16 am #
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If nothing else, it will be fun to watch that sad limey sot Christopher Hitchens try to counter this far-too-well-mannered report with some more of his typically mendacious pro-Bush squealings.

Many of us were entertained by Hitch’s recent bird-flipping performance on on “Real Time with Bill Mahar,” but amid our ensuing laughter, some may have missed this increasingly desperate faux-contrarian’s assertion that Saddam deliberately allowed al-Zarqawi into the country to help train Al Q’s rebels. (Never mind that a successful Al Q rebellion in Iraq would have meant the end of Hussein’s secular regime.)

Another lie gone, Chris, and another dream of your ultimate vindication by History dashed. But courage, my friend! There will always be a small, albeit essential, place for you in Georgie’s Ministry of Propaganda. Surrounded by all those ball-scratching yahoos, you will, if nothing else, really class up the joint.

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By truth, September 9, 2006 at 7:49 am #
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John, “Shamefull”, their policies are based on murder and destruction of other humans, besides torture, humiliation and corrupting their way of life.

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By Leon Sandeski, September 8, 2006 at 4:45 pm #
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Don’t get caried away with the bait in this document about no Sadam - al queda link, as heavy as that is.

IT is what is likely missing from the report that is the other shoe. Someone needs to check the directive issed for the report - It was supposed to have been on whether Bush had deceived people into the Iraq war. The report was pushed beyond the 2004 election to keep that out of the publics ear. Now it is released during the ABC scandle with the Sadam/AlQueada bait - will no one notice that there is likley NOTHING about the Bush deceptions that appears.

Pat Roberts claimed they couldn’t finish the report because Bush wouldn’t give them documents.

If this report isn’t brought to light about what is left out - it will be another Bush sucessfull lie of gross omission.

THIS REPORT HAS SOME MAJOR INFO TO HIDE - don’t be misled by the easy bait - America is once again being played like a fish on Karl Rove’s line.

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By John McKellar, September 8, 2006 at 1:17 pm #
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This was not an intelligence failure.  It was a failure by the administration to act responsibly on the intelligence at hand.  Now the Democrats are accused of trying to score election points. Why should’nt they.  Where are the outraged Republicans?  I hope that our future is bright enough to hold a time when Republicans will realize how shamefull their response has been.

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By Manny, September 8, 2006 at 12:53 pm #
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What evil is done at night will eventually be exposed in day light. The Bush administration
in the cover of night created for the American people the walls of lies to justify killing of the Iraq nation. A few of us looked into the dark
and saw what the necons were up to. Yet it took
the deaths of American lives to bring the lies into the light.

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By Iraq's Daily " Burn Rate ", September 8, 2006 at 12:40 pm #
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Just think about all those $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ we have ALREADY spent in IRAQ @ the land of the IED RITZ CARLTON?

Look at the daily “ Burn Rate” of $$$$$$$$ in IRAQ by our US Military?

Just send your pay check to “ george bush = Iraq enron crook “!

Geepers, Osama bin Laden is in Afghanistan.

Maybe Bush can’t SPELL or READ on a map, further he didn’t realize Iraq isn’t Afghanistan.

Oh well, maybe he should REALLY attend Yale for his Shakespear, grammar, map reading!  Reading “The Stranger “ @ home isn’t cutting the grade.

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