"I think it would be embarrassing to be a part of the "Bush lied" camp right about now".
Wow, now you take Clinton as a valid source? Only when needed aye? Wash, rinse and repeat.
Is Michael Jackson guilty? Maybe think so based on testimony and evidence. There is however big Jackson supporters who will support him no matter what. I don't think it's dangerous to blindly support a pop star no matter what. However I do find it dangerous when people blindly support a politician or a group of politicians when there are some hard facts.
In Cairo, on February 24 2001, Powell said: "He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."
Powell went onto to say; "build his military back up or to develop weapons of mass destruction" for "the last 10 years". America, he said, had been successful in keeping him "in a box".
Saddam does not control the northern part of the country," she said. "We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."
Condoleezza Rice
Vice President Dick Cheney revived two controversial assertions about the war in Iraq on Thursday, declaring there was "overwhelming evidence" that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Al Qaeda and that two trailers discovered after the war were proof of Iraq's biological weapons programs.
Commission investigating 9/11 attacks nears completion of final, probably unanimous report that will stand by conclusions of panel's staff, which largely dismissed White House theories both about close working relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda and about possible Iraqi involvement in 9/11; report will document management failures at senior levels of Bush administration that kept government from acting aggressively on intelligence warnings in spring and summer of 2001
"Sec. of State Colin Powell conceded Thursday that despite his assertions to the United Nations last year, he had no 'smoking gun' proof of a link between the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terrorists of al-Qaeda.'I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection,' Powell said." [NY Times, 1/9/04]
FACT: "Reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate. Individuals who leak or purport to leak classified information are doing serious harm to national security; such activity is deplorable and may be illegal." [DoD, 11/15/03]
Yet
CHENEY CLAIM: "You ought to go look at an article that Stephen Hayes did in the Weekly Standard here a few weeks ago, that goes through and lays out in some detail, based on an assessment that was done by the Department of Defense and forwarded to the Senate Intelligence Committee some weeks ago. That's your best source of information to justify the Saddam-Al Qaeda claim." Vice President Cheney, 1/9/04
Posted by Mk at June 5, 2005 03:29 PMI also agree that blind support for a politician is dangerous - and too dangerous to engage in. And I've thought that for...decades.
Therefore everything that's been written here has been written with that in consideration. And any support that I've given to President Bush and/or his administration has been written with that in consideration.
Therefore you've neither added, enhanced, nor in any way changed, refuted, or impacted in any way anything that was said above by making that point.
And I have no position on Michael Jackson. I have read nothing on the issue, nor watched any video, nor cared. I did watch much of the O.J. Simpson trial (because others whom I was with were watching) and I saw a lot of commentary on his trial. At that time, I made no judgments about O.J.'s guilt or innocence. Neither do I today. *I was not on the jury.*
As I've stated elsewhere on this site, I'm not so much a Bush supporter as I am against the vitriolic wackos who are (or were before the election) screaming their heads off about him. Pointing out their silliness has been my agenda, for the most part.
Since you've left out that context, I've little to say about your post. We have a choice in voting, here, and we vote for the best of the available alternatives.
The liberals claimed - CLAIMED - that George W. Bush was just awful. Horrible, even. They compared him to Hitler on many occasions. And, yet, when the time came to choose a candidate to run against him, the best they could come up with was...a Democrat. A *DEMOCRAT*. That's the best they could do? That pokes some serious holes in the argument that Bush is bad, doesn't it?
I'm being a bit facetious here, but you should get the point: I'd be all for a better candidate than Bush if they'd actually run one. In order to be better, the person would have to have had a similar foreign policy to Bush's - well, maybe a bit more aggressive - and s/he would've had to have had a much more Libertarian and Laissez Faire Capitalist domestic policy than George W. Bush. That'd be better. And then, of course, with that as background values, the person would also have to be able to be *effective* - which includes being electable.
Get it?
Posted by Jeff at June 5, 2005 07:22 PMI guess it mus tbe a lousy time to be part of the defend Bill Clinton he only lied about sex crowd now. What do all you good liberals have to say about his backing the Iraq invasion?
Posted by Joe Doex at August 16, 2005 08:08 PMThe Iraq war was planned back in 1998 and listed many neo-cons including Don. Rumsfeld, D. Cheney ,Paul Wolfowitz,and quite a few more. They are all guilty of war crimes. MOST IMPORTASNT, WE NEED A NEW INVESTIGATION OF 9/11 ATTACKS.
Posted by Elaine N. Ramey at January 31, 2008 10:37 PM@Elaine: That's true, that's exactly what we need! Until the government can no longer hide it, until everyone alive knows that the aliens who landed at Roswell were not only behind the September 11th attacks, but were also behind the grassy knoll, no one on Earth is safe!
Posted by Jeff at February 2, 2008 07:47 AMLove your comments, linked this page on a comment on Facebook. On this 9/11 I think it's important to keep history clear and truthful.
Posted by Celeste at September 11, 2009 03:49 PM