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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:00 PM
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Bush warns of Iraq disaster
Bush warns of Iraq disaster
By MIKE ALLEN | 5/13/08 5:18 PM EST

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In an Oval Office interview with Politico and Yahoo News — Bush’s first for an online audience — the president said his doomsday scenario for a premature withdrawal “of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”

~snip~


In a reversal of the usual question that’s put to him, a query submitted online asked the president whether he felt he had been misled about Iraq as he made the decision to go to war.

“‘Misled’ is a strong word, it almost connotes some kind of intentional,” Bush said. “I don't think so. … Intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was.”

Congress has since pushed, and Bush has signed, various intelligence reforms, including the creation of a director of national intelligence, whose job it is to help the various parts of the intelligence community share information.

“Do I think somebody lied to me?” he said. “No, I don't. I think it was just, you know, they analyzed the situation and came up with the wrong conclusion.”


more:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10314.html
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:01 PM
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1. Bush is the disaster
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:02 PM
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2. .



Thankfully, no one listens to the idiot anymore
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thunder rising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:03 PM
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3. "they came up with the wrong conclusion." Try again .. nop ... try again ... nop
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:08 PM
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4. He keeps repeating the lie about Iraq being linked to "an attack on America."
" ... which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”

He is a lying unelected criminal bastard who keeps selling the lie
even after the world knows he is lying. He should be in jail for
his actions .... 1,000,000 + Iraqis are dead and they never did a
damn thing to us or were a threat to us either.
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Butch350 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:15 PM
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5. Bush warns of Iraq disaster
He is starting the SCARE tactic again. He is setting up McCain as the war hero, pow, fatherly leader thru these
here troubled times. AMERICANS FELL FOR IT TWICE - WHY NOT MAKE IT A TRIFECTA WITH MCCAIN!
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:16 PM
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6. Intelligence?
Only since Bush has been in office has the intelligence dept failed according to him.

how many times in history has our intelligence been completely wrong?

:grr: :grr:
:hi:
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:23 PM
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7. Only when Doug Feith, Wolfowitz, Pearl, Rummy, and Cheney cherry picking ..
.. the data have we had such a failure. The Office of Special Plans in the
Pentagon and the White Iraq Group had a job to build a case for the
Iraq war ... and the truth be damned.

Bush is trying to rewrite history and shift the blame for his blood bath
in Iraq.
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Martin Eden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:46 PM
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8. I wish somebody would have warned HIM.
Of course, many did, but the millions of us in the streets were nothing more than a focus group.
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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 05:57 PM
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9. Well, he's about 4 and a half frikken years too late!
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 06:16 PM
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10. I wish his ol' man had a premature withdrawal and we wouldn't be where we are now!
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Diclotican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 06:51 PM
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11. maddezmom
maddezmom

FINALLY he has understand it.... Maybe Or is this just another way to get what he want from a rather cowardly Senate and Congress, who would not dear to do their duty, to get this Son of..... into admit that he have screwed the country, and the world as a whole many times over...

This man is a lier, simple as that. He is a pathological lier, who would never admit to the truth.. And all this "blaming of the international intelligence world" is just bullshit. Many country's like France, Germany, the sjekks Russia (possible China too) have all some information who was given to mr Bush, and then degraded as "bad" because it was not fitting to mr Bush agenda. Or rather the noe-cons agenda about the middle east. If we go to http://www.newamericancentury.org/ itself, we would se what the Project for a New American Century really wanted in the first place... It is shilling in its simplest, and it is as looking back to a rather young Adolf Hitler, who in his prison cell write the first volume of Main Kamf. The second volume was not that success, and was not allowed to the broader public-um anyway... And for the most part, the second book have been something the scholars have worked with, not for the public... Anyway. What the neo-cons really wanted, and was given the opportunity to do when mr Bush was "elected" President in 2000 was to do what they have told the world for years.. Violate all international law. Specially after 9/11 who was used to the staging ground to attack Iraq. And possible also Iran, Syria, and other "enemies" of US.. North-Korea where mr Clinton had stooped the nuclear weapons program almost. Was treated with little more than contempt, because US could do it, and because mr Bush wanted to do the opposite to mr Clinton. The result was that North-Korea was firing off their first nuclear device, home-made as such, but it was a shock, both to China who are the only nation outside of North-Korea who have something of leverage in the regime. And US who was waking up to the reality that even North Korea was a member of the nuclear club.. Not something US and the rest of the world wanted, but here it was... And after that, this excuse for a President, was doing everything as mr Clinton have been doing. Giving North Korea credits, food, and fuel and coal to heating and electrisity... If just he had some advisor's who would dear to tell this Stupid little man that he was wrong almost everytime...

Mr Bush have been lying to the world. The intelligence agency es, US have more than 15 different types, was given him much information. But when the information they was given the President, was not that the President wanted. He wanted Information who was giving him, and the neo-cons the Right to blow up Iraq, hang the Iraqi president, and the rest of the iraqi country to small peaces.. He would not listen to information who was information who was not building under what mr Bush wanted.
When a Spy as Curveball was given much credibility before the war - a man who now are living in Germany (south germany) under another surname, and are proven by the german intelligence agency as a lier, a man with no credibility what so ever. One source called the person Curvball a pathological lier when he described the man...

And that was just ONE of the known sources that the US was using to justify the war in Iraq. Curvball was dead wrong, in every respect of the word Wrong. But he was given the green light in the US to spread his lies as much as he could. And after that the war was given way. He was proven to be a lier, a cheater and a man who wanted to tell US what they wanted to hear to get a comfortable home, a comfortable income, and a green card to the US.. Today he is in the custody of the german state, as a free man, but with protection...

How many other Curvballs was mr Bush, and his administration using, to try to get the world to believe that Iraq was the danger mr Bush and Co was telling us all?.

How many potential Curvballs would this administration use, to get the american public to believe that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a danger who they have to nuke before Iran could to the same to the US and the allieds..

Diclotican

Sorry my bad english, not my native language
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:47 PM
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12. Keep talking loser
I am wondering when McSame will formally ask Stupid to SHUT THE FUCK UP. More sound bites for Obama's GE campaign.
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