Apparently alerting certain Middle Eastern leaders that he was ‘sure’ President Bush planned to launch an attack on Iraq. Powerline has a transcript of an interview Fox News’ Chris Wallace did with the Senator. The quote in question (emphasis added):
The President gave a speech tonight at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska – the speech is a continuation of the same theme that the President has been pushing hard over the last week in response to the lying Democrats in Congress who are trying to falsely assert that the President lied about the rationale Iraq war, forgetting what was said in the past by their own party regarding the threat they, too, thought Iraq posed (see here and here for more). Here’s the text of the speech. Some of what the President said:
Last Friday, I blogged about US House Representative Sue Myrick’s (R-NC – 9th District) comments at a press conference on promoting a crackdown on illegal immmigration here regarding the alleged Mexican border arrest of three suspected Al Qaeda members that she mentioned. I (along with several readers) had wondered why this hadn’t yet been mentioned in the mainstream press, but also said the following in my post:
Peter Costello is Australia’s treasurer. He was recently quoted as saying:
