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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Post war Afghanistan and Iraq documents to be released
Most of them, anyway. Finally, says Stephen Hayes:
The Bush administration has decided to release most of the documents captured in post-war Afghanistan and Iraq. The details of the document release are still being worked out, according to officials with knowledge of the discussions. Those details are critical. At issue are things like the timeframe for releasing the documents, the mechanism for scrubbing documents for sensitive information, and most important, the criteria for withholding documents from the public. But some of the captured files should be available to the public and journalists within weeks if not days.
President George W. Bush has made clear in recent weeks his displeasure with the delays in getting the information out to the American public. On February 16, one day after ABC News broadcast excerpts of recordings featuring Saddam Hussein and his war cabinet, Bush met with congressional Republicans and several senior national security officials and said three times that the documents should be released. “This stuff ought to be out,” he told National Security Adviser, Stephen Hadley. “Put this stuff out.” It seems Bush will soon get his wish.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who has been steadfast in his resolve to see these documents released, said today that “this is a bold decision in favor of openness that will go a long way towards improving our understanding of prewar Iraq . . . By placing these documents online and allowing the public the opportunity to review them, we can cut years off the time it will take to
gain knowledge from this potential treasure trove of information.”Hadley and John Negroponte, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), informed House Intelligence Committee chairman Pete Hoekstra on Saturday. The three men all attended the white-tie Gridiron Club dinner, a mainstay of the Washington establishment in which journalists and politicians poke fun at one another and themselves in a series of songs and skits.
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No one can say with any certainty what will come from the document release. Intelligence officials with knowledge of the exploitation process estimate that less than 4 percent of the overall document collection has been fully exploited. It’s reasonable to assume that documents in the collection will provide support to both supporters of the war in Iraq and critics. Summaries of the exploited materials, listed in a U.S. government database known as HARMONY, suggest that the new material will at least complicate the overly simplified conventional wisdom that the former Iraqi regime posed no real threat.
Hats off to Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI 2nd Congressional District) for his perseverance on pushing to get these documents released (something Stephen Hayes has diligently pushed for as well in spite of the red tape he’s encountered along the way). And once they become available, rest assured that the tenacious Mr. Hayes will thoroughly examine them and no doubt keep his readers posted as to what information they contain.
The “Bush lied, people died!!!!!!!!!” (emphasis theirs) crowd (which includes the anti-war left and their pals in the MSM) want you to believe the conclusions on Saddam and his WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda contained within the 9-11 report were definitive. We know better.
Related Toldjah So posts:
- Prepare to learn more about Saddam’s WMD intentions
- House Permanent Select Committee to review Saddam recordings
- The Syria/Iraq WMD connection
- Saddam’s #2 air force official: WMDs were moved to Syria
- Confirmed: Iraq was a terrorist training center
- Pentagon briefing docs on Iraq/AQ connection from 2002
- Where did the WMDs go?
- Show Hayes the documents!
- Pre-war Iraq and Syria: closer than we thought
- AQ/SH connections: Must read
- More evidence of OBL/Hussein connections
- Iraq and Al Qaeda: More connections
- No terrorism in Iraq before the war?
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“We know better”, who knows better? Cheney, when called on this point claimed he never said their was a connection, even though there is video tape to the contrary. And bush, said he never made any connection. What will it take for you people to admit that this entire Iraq endeavor has been a disaster? Or are you all just being good little NAZI’s? Peace
Bang I’ve been away a few days. Last score I heard from you was 0 for 22 or 23 against the pet troll rally squad. Is Baghdad Bob using steves keyboard?
As to what it would take : Facts. steve- just facts, bring em or crawl back into your mushroom hatchery of a class.
He is stuck in Star Wars….
steve says, “These are not the facts you are looking for, they are not here, you have never seen them….”
Here are some facts: Wolfowitz, Libby, Fifth, Abramoff, Krystal, Horowitz, May, Pearl, Pipes, Adleman, Murdoch. All of these men are Zionists who teamed with the Armageddonists: Cheney, Robertson, Dobson, Fallwell, Perkins, Reed, to bring us an illegal war in Iraq. bush’s oil men and money all said, “Bring it on.” The result: Good men and women are dying for bible prophesy and money. Peace
That Steve is opinions not facts. You fail to do anything close to due diligence. Negligence breeds misinformation. Laziness makes for irresponsibility. Repetition of such traits shows your character.
Bak, I’d say that the problem is mental illness and bigotry, not laziness on a certain person’s part. The same could be said of Dan Rather and Mary Mapes.
Love how Dan Rather speaks about hard nosed questions, about hammering away…and when it happens to him…well better cut the persons mike…
Dan Rather, what a joke he is turning out to be.
Liberal think, what I say applies to YOU not me…
PCD, I was being kind. A sliver of hope that maybe an appeal to him on doing more due diligence before spewing. It appeals to me… I work and I make sure my work is completed staff work. Totally lacking by most here at the state of CA. It surprises managers here.
What is an Ashkenai, Baklava? Do you know? You should find out. Peace
I read this
Anything you wanted me to see? Are you obsessed with hate to the point that you must control others or see their death and blood?
Or will you allow them to defend themselves. After such a horrific loss of 8million + (mostly Ashkenazi Jews) I would expect that they would take threats to them seriously and I would expect that you join with us and condemn those who threaten and terorrize them and Americans. Or are you American?
That’s a nice job Baklava. I love everybody, including Jews. What I don’t like are the Zionist policies. And as you saw the Zionists are controlled by the Ashkenazi. The Jews of Palestine are Semites just like the Arabs. So it appears that the European Jews,Ashkenazi, went to Palestine after WWII and kicked the Arab semites off their land. Then the USA armed armed Isreal with nuclear weapons and told the Semitic Arabs to shut-up or die. Which, since 1948, a good many have because they wouldn’t. This entire deal was immoral and wrong. Peace
Timeline for you to peruse:
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Read all of it, very interesting, step-by-step timeline.
Steve wrote, “What I don’t like are the Zionist policies”
But Steve, you don’t tell us which policies (even though you were asked) that you don’t like. You fail. You are negligent. Is it laziness?
Deal with the present and you will then stop failing to hate the past. Can you Steve recognize the right of Israel to exist? A 2 state solution is only said “no” to by one party and that is the Palestinians and other Islamofacists.
Why do you want to side with these people who can’t recognize the right for 2 states to exist?