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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nakhui on February 13, 2004, 12:39:09 PM
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Recall just last week Bush appointed a commission to investigate the "faulty" US Intell and at the same time he explicitly directed this commission not to look into how the "White House" used that intel.
That issue was strickly off limits!
And to ensure this would happen, Bush hand picked the former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Laurence Silberman - you remember him. He was the Judge at the center of the Iran-Contra trial who acquited Oliver North and the special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh was seriously thinking of filing papers for judicial misconduct...
The Iran-Contra investigation was being blocked by the Bush administration, which refused to permit classified CIA documents to be turned over to North and other defendants, citing "national security." This was a transparent maneuver to hamstring the prosecution, in which the White House encouraged North, Poindexter & Co. to seek the documents and then instructed the CIA to refuse them, in order to create an appealable issue.
As Walsh pointed out later, in his book on the Iran-Contra coverup, the judiciary itself played a key political role. He wrote: "a powerful band of Republican appointees waited like the strategic reserves of an embattled army. The final evaluation of the immunity Congress had granted Oliver North and John Poindexter would be the work of yet another political force--a force cloaked in the black robes of those dedicated to defining and preserving the rule of law. Although the judiciary is theroretically a neutral arm of government and judges are expected to eschew partisan poltics, the underlying political nature of all government institutions was evident when a three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reviewed Oliver North's conviction in 1990."
it doesn't stop there - wait there's more.
Silberman was also involved in the Regan's Iran Hostage negotiations to keep American's Prisoners until the Carter Administration was officialy out of office. He was dubbed the Reagan-Bush campaign's "ambassador to Iran" for his behind-the-scenes contacts with the Khomeini regime
If you want an issue white washed then Silberman is your man.
Not this time!
Enter stage left - the SIC.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has agreed to expand its review of intelligence on Iraq to examine whether the Bush administration accurately described the information it had on Saddam Hussein's weapons.
The committee will examine "whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. government officials (between the 1991 Gulf War and the Iraq War) were substantiated by intelligence information," committee leaders said in a statement Thursday night.
The panel is nearing completion of a report expected to be extremely critical of the intelligence agencies' collection and analysis of prewar intelligence. Since the inquiry began in June, Democrats have insisted that the commission also examine whether the administration distorted intelligence to help build the case for war. Republicans have refused and both sides have accused the other of using the traditionally bipartisan committee for political purposes.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/sprj.nirq.intelligence.ap/index.html
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*looks left then right*
Didn't we go over this before?
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My Cats breath smells like catfood
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the left is a fearful bunch
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Originally posted by Rude
the left is a fearful bunch
The majority of the membres on the SIC are Republicans.
Are you saying they are leftist Republicans?
Or is it more accurate to say, that even the Republicans have had enough of Dubya's Horse watermelon about the Iraq War and now they want answers.
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Originally posted by Nakhui
The majority of the membres on the SIC are Republicans.
Are you saying they are leftist Republicans?
Or is it more accurate to say, that even the Republicans have had enough of Dubya's Horse watermelon about the Iraq War.
All of this whinin and witch huntin....it's really simple.
The American voter will select a president in less than 10 months....it's a democracy....learn to live with the results as I have.
If you want to chew on political fodder, knock yourselves out....just don't expect me to be moved by any of it. If some are so naive as to really believe that the Washington politic is all about doing whats best for us, left or right, then you're kidding yourself.
Final point....Bush has a belief in what he feels is best for our countries future....he will stay the course true to that belief and either win or lose the election....argue the points, fine....encourage hatred for Bush or anyone else and you've lost regardless of the outcome of a national election.
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Originally posted by Rude
Final point....Bush has a belief in what he feels is best for our countries future....he will stay the course true to that belief and either win or lose the election....argue the points, fine....encourage hatred for Bush or anyone else and you've lost regardless of the outcome of a national election.
You have no freaking clue what Bush believes in - LOL.
If you haven't noticed he's not staying any course... his course changes with the wind.
This isn't about hatred. No one hates Bush.
Bush is a liar and a reprobate.
His actions in the Iraq War are tantimount to high treason.
You don't want to hear this? You're not going to have a choice. There's enough evidence to prove it. You'll hear it soon enough.
As I said from the very beginning - months ago...
He deliberately mislead the US and the US Congress into a war for oil, and as a result, Americans are dead, and many wounded and maimed - and every man woman and child is in debt for BILLIONS because of this idiot.
A member of his staff is being investigated for a FELONY. This is not politics - there was a crime committed, and the FBI is on the verge of indicted the person responsible (within next 4 weeks, possibily sooner, they already know who it is).
And when that news comes out - you're going to know a little bit more about who's in the White House.
He's not the man you think he is.
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The next person to make a serious post will ignore the whole post above except for the phrase 'war for oil'.
Isn't being predictable fun?
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Warfor Oil was Olive's brother.
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Originally posted by Nakhui
You have no freaking clue what Bush believes in - LOL.
If you haven't noticed he's not staying any course... his course changes with the wind.
This isn't about hatred. No one hates Bush.
Bush is a liar and a reprobate.
His actions in the Iraq War are tantimount to high treason.
You don't want to hear this? You're not going to have a choice. There's enough evidence to prove it. You'll hear it soon enough.
As I said from the very beginning - months ago...
He deliberately mislead the US and the US Congress into a war for oil, and as a result, Americans are dead, and many wounded and maimed - and every man woman and child is in debt for BILLIONS because of this idiot.
A member of his staff is being investigated for a FELONY. This is not politics - there was a crime committed, and the FBI is on the verge of indicted the person responsible (within next 4 weeks, possibily sooner, they already know who it is).
And when that news comes out - you're going to know a little bit more about who's in the White House.
He's not the man you think he is.
Your laughable....you're full of hatred and fear. You're gullible as well.
You make accusations as though they are truths....kinda transparent.
This BBS is more entertaining than flying AH.
BTW...where are you from, or is that blank on purpose?
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Warfor Oil was Olive's brother.
Cute:)
Just a question....if oil was a part of this, which bush refers to early on regarding stability in that region, would it be worth it to protect our national interests, or should we allow the chips to fall where they may?
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Originally posted by Rude
Cute:)
Just a question....if oil was a part of this, which bush refers to early on regarding stability in that region, would it be worth it to protect our national interests, or should we allow the chips to fall where they may?
You mistake me for someonewho is against the war. I think it was a good thing to do....
go figure huh?
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Originally posted by midnight Target
You mistake me for someonewho is against the war. I think it was a good thing to do....
go figure huh?
If we ever meet, I'm buyin you a cold one(coke)
:)
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Originally posted by Rude
If we ever meet, I'm buyin you a cold one(coke)
:)
Careful.
I'll be in KC April 23-27th.
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Originally posted by Rude
Your laughable....you're full of hatred and fear. You're gullible as well.
You make accusations as though they are truths....kinda transparent.
This BBS is more entertaining than flying AH.
BTW...where are you from, or is that blank on purpose?
Wait you were one of the ones so adamantly convinced there were WMD in Iraq. And you had all these OP-eds to prove it... so logical and convincing... yet so blatantly mislead.. by whom? Did you see the US Intel first hand? I don't think so... so I guess you read someone elses opinion and you believed them - that would make you the one who is gullible.
You bought the story hook, line, and sinker.
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Look at the date...this is Kerry lieing to Clinton about WMD's
"Mr. President, we have every reason to believe that Saddam Hussein will continue to do everything in his power to further develop weapons of mass destruction and the ability to deliver those weapons, and that he will use those weapons without concern or pangs of conscience if ever and whenever his own calculations persuade him it is in his interests to do so. . . . I have spoken before this chamber on several occasions to state my belief that the United States must take every feasible step to lead the world to remove this unacceptable threat. He must be deprived of the ability to injure his own citizens without regard to internationally-recognized standards of behavior and law. He must be deprived of his ability to invade neighboring nations. He must be deprived of his ability to visit destruction on other nations in the Middle East region or beyond. If he does not live up fully to the new commitments that U.N. Secretary-General Annan recently obtained in order to end the weapons inspection standoff - and I will say clearly that I cannot conceive that he will not violate those commitments at some point - we must act decisively to end the threats that Saddam Hussein poses." [Congressional Record, 3/13/98.]
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Careful.
I'll be in KC April 23-27th.
Seriously MT?
If so, we've got a few KC area AH'ers. Mostly 13th TAS guys, so if you don't mind, we'd be happy to hook up and treat you to some KC BBQ.
Let us know!
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Unless something bad happens its a sure thing. NFPA meeting on the 26th and 27th. I'll fly in on Saturday before and maybe drive out to my Dad's place on Lake of the Ozarks. I'll be around KC Sunday night and Monday night for sure.
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MT,
Then consider one of those nights on us.
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Originally posted by Nakhui
Did you see the US Intel first hand?
No. Did you?
I know who did though.
Congress saw the intel without deletions. Guess what? They voted to give Bush authority to go to war with Iraq.
Were all the Congressmen in on the conspiracy too?
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Yea, MT, when the prodigal returns, we shall kill the fatted pig and BBQ his baby back ribs!
Yea, verily.
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And I shall cast out the vegan devil onto the growing pile of riblet bones...
amen.
Can't wait.