—now that Scott McClellan has implicated Bush in the outing of Valerie Plame:
• “The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White House briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.”
• “There was one problem. It was not true.”
• “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself.”
-- Scott McClellan (Former Bush White House Press Secretary) from his memoir to be published next April.
2007-11-20
13:59:18
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lttlehrse55 –
And, if yours had a brain…terror organization would not have grown in size, popularity, and success over the past 8 years; America would not have lost its reputation and moral authority in international affairs; our military would not be stretched thin, worn out, and demoralized; our soldiers would be better equipped in the field and better treated, both medically and socially, when they returned home; our economy would not be tanking with the Chinese holding our notes over our head; Afghanistan would be a model of American commitment, accomplishment, and human decency; and the catastrophic failure in Iraq would have never happened.
2007-11-20
16:17:46 ·
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SFC_Ollie –
This pot calling the kettle black routine has run its course. The fact that Republicans had dominant control of Congress for 6 years – and nearly equal representation for the past year – has blocked every attempt to obtain truth-in-government from the current administration.
If things are so great in Bushburg, why is it that the nitwit cannot buy a friend among Republicans up for (re)election?
2007-11-20
16:26:03 ·
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Patrick G –
Lest we forget—it was the CIA that demanded an investigation of the Plame affair; and, it was the CIA that submitted documented testimony in the Libby trial that Plame was, indeed, a covert agent. If you have an issue with the investigation, evidence, trial, and outcome – take it up with the CIA and the Justice Department.
2007-11-20
16:30:27 ·
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carolinatinpan –
Libby was convicted of a committing a felony crime. Try to keep up.
2007-11-20
16:34:00 ·
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smsmith500 --
How about former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill's—and CIA director George Tenet’s—and Colin Powell’s books? And, while technically not a White House official, Alan Greenspan is as “insider Washington” as a person can be.
And, what about Bush’s own “official” unauthorized biography that he spent time in the Oval Office working on with the author (in addition to the time he spent talking to Bob Woodward for his three books on the Bush White House). This is the first time in modern history that the memoirs of a U.S. President have been released while he’s still in office. Maybe if he had spent more time concerned about the nation and less time concerned about his own place in the history books, his Presidency would not have become the pathetic failure that history will recall.
2007-11-20
16:51:54 ·
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lttlehrse55–
ROTFLMAO. That’s the best you’ve got? Don’t let the truth and reality influence your opinion in any way; you might get a headache.
I guess you have forgotten that Roosevelt had to pull conservatives into WWII kicking and screaming because they didn’t want to lose the good business deals they had going with Hitler.
2007-11-21
01:39:26 ·
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Roxann Colter –
Exactly; and the “I had UNKNOWINGLY passed along false information.” thing is especially lame and self-serving. But then, what’s a boy to do if he was a principal in organized criminal activities and fears future legal actions.
2007-11-21
01:45:10 ·
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