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06.24.2008 12:12 pm

Bush is the one who chose politics over security

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Senator Christopher Bond talks about choosing national security over politics but, conveniently, forgets that George Bush chose to report that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq even though CIA reports had found no such findings. Bush was so hell bent on going to war that he chose to find a reason even though it meant lying. He chose his personal politics over national security. Eric Mink got his caption correct and it was no cheap shot but the simple truth. Now we are being told a recently released report concludes WMD were, in fact, “substantiated by intelligence.” It seems to me one should substantiate facts for going to war before actually going to war – not over five years later. Does Senator Bond, Vice Chairman, Senate Intelligence Committee, forget that Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson called Bush’s bluff? He had personally, at the behest of the CIA, gone to Niger, Africa, and investigated a prewar claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium and found them to be bogus. In the process, “every trick in the book” was used to discredit Wilson and out his wife, CIA covert operative Valerie Plame. I find it highly offensive that our intelligence community gets the blame for reporting properly in the first place, and I am tired of this administration who manipulate every situation to suite their own needs.

Debbie Suarez

Fenton

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You’re a liar, Ms. Suarez.

Your contentions have been rebutted six ways from Sunday with well-researched articles, and yet the P-D continues to print your type of letter in an attempt to keep tempers (and web traffic) high on their blogs.

It’s tiresome and boring.

— SecondVerseSameAsTheFirst
12:48 pm June 24th, 2008

cannot believe the comment from SecondVerse. He is one of those that is going to go all the way with the party line about how just and needed this war was. Was Saddam a nice person? NO. Did we have to invade Iraq? Also No. Anyone who opposed the thought was replaced, including several Generals. Of course why should that surprise us if they replaced the first treasury Secretary when he said that the cost of the war was under estimated. The Bush administration has lied from almost day one about everything. When they came into office they held a economic summit and only invited people who held the same views has Bush. They now claim that the economic and housing problems are the fault of the Democratic Congress, despite all the problems staring during the Republican Congress. Bush said he was not into nation building yet invades Iraq and starts nation building. The Bush administration is built on one lie after another with a firm base of denial for any of the problems.

— Bob
1:08 pm June 24th, 2008

Typical of the Eric Mink target audience, Ms Saurez hasn’t the slightest idea what she’s talking about. A lot of mindless talking points devoid of fact.

Have to give Mink and the liberal press their props though. They know how to disseminate propaganda. Sen Rockefeller’s laughably partisan report wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on, as witnessed by the fact no respectable Democrat has publically come out and supported it. Doesn’t stop a credulous press from printing stories about it as if it contained anything useful.

— Go_Fish
1:20 pm June 24th, 2008

More Liberal TRIPE

— JD
1:21 pm June 24th, 2008

Boring, Bob.

B-o-r-i-n-g.

— SecondVerseSameAsTheFirst
2:34 pm June 24th, 2008

BALDFACED LIE!!

Even the ultra-left wing Washington post and LA Times have demonstrated that Pres. Bush’d contentions about Iraq and WMD WERE SUPPORTED BY INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION!! the “Bush lied” mantra is the only lie that has been told about Iraq. It is another baldfaced lie that the liar Joe Wilson refuted the story about Saddam seeking yellowcake. It is Erik Mink who is the liar. The facts about Iraq and WMD were substantiated AT THE TIME. You seem very confused about the timeline and unable to understand a simple fact.

The only “newspapers” left that still promote the “bush lied” propaganda are the Tehran Times, Havana Herald, Pyongyang Press, Caracas Tribune, the al-Qaeda Intelligencer, and of course the most extreme, leftist, anti-American, anti-capitalist rag of them all, the St. Louis Post Dispatch

— tim jones
2:37 pm June 24th, 2008

Alas! This debate has finally degenerated to an all time low. Fine…he lied… you’re a fool…who on this earth cares what that old sot Sen Christopher Bond says or thinks?…Hmmm…jeez…how else can I offend and say nothing new? Oh yes…Bush lied, you are all in denial, go pour a scotch and get over it, the nightmare is over with Obama’s election in November.

— -jb-
3:42 pm June 24th, 2008

SecondVerse calls my earlier posting has boring. However, he does not comeback with facts or reasonable argument. He instead does what the Bush administration and the conservative right continues to do, they call it names and ignore the facts. Tim Jones claims that WMD were supported by intelligence as shown in other papers which he called ultra-left. All papers reported this intelligence until it was shown to be selective intelligence. When it became clear that Bush selected the weakest intelligence and ignored other more persuasive information then the papers turned against Bush and his WMD intelligence. The State Department was saying the information was bad, the CIA even admits that there was cherry picked. The British intelligence community even doubted the information being presented. But this is contrary to the world in which the ultra-right lives. They will never accept that we have 4000+ dead and trillions spent when there was no need and no benefit.

— Bob
3:50 pm June 24th, 2008

“When it became clear that Bush selected the weakest intelligence and ignored other more persuasive information then the papers turned against Bush and his WMD intelligence. The State Department was saying the information was bad, the CIA even admits that there was cherry picked.”

If you had two people call you and say your neighbor was aiming a sniper rifle at you through the window, then five other people called you and said they didn’t see your neighbor aiming a sniper rifle at you, would you duck? If you said yes then you’re cherry picking intelligence.

— Realitycheck
4:17 pm June 24th, 2008

ANOTHER BALDAFCED LIE!! There was no cherry-picking nor manipulation of intelligence data by Pres Bush.

The rabid lunacy and falsehoods are here are starting to resemble the hatred and ignorance over at The Obamamessiah’s website:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/curtisabbey/gGBrvH
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/geralsosbee/gGB4y2#extended

— tim jones
4:25 pm June 24th, 2008

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