April 17, 2004


Surprised? No

So Bob Woodward is telling tales out of school. Sounds like he may be keeping Helen Thomas company soon...Woodward who managed to make journalistic history twice, once for Watergate and again for the most egregious journalistic mouth-music ever on the Commanders Codpiece may be redeeming himself with the story about how Preznit Bring'em On got FrankenRummy to blow $700 MILLION mis-appropriated dollars on War Plans for Iraq in the days after 9/11. Of course when Richard Clarke said basically the same thing about the Iraqi Obsession, the rebublican spin machinery made sure that American public thought that Clarke was infected with Martian Brain Syphilis within minutes of his book being released. But now Woodward seems to be re-telling the story we have all known for a long, long time. President Bunnypants was obsessed with invading Iraq.

President Bush secretly ordered a war plan drawn up against Iraq less than two months after U.S. forces attacked Afghanistan and was so worried the decision would cause a furor he did not tell everyone on his national security team, says a new book on his Iraq policy.

Bush feared that if news got out about the Iraq plan as U.S. forces were fighting another conflict, people would think he was too eager for war, journalist Bob Woodward writes in “Plan of Attack,” a behind-the-scenes account of the 16 months leading to the Iraq invasion.
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According to a report Friday by The Washington Post, Woodward also claims that:

Starting in late December 2001, Bush met repeatedly with Army Gen. Tommy Franks and his war cabinet to plan the U.S. attack on Iraq even as he insisted he was pursuing a diplomatic solution.
CIA Director George Tenet assured the president that it was a "slam dunk" case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Some of Vice President Dick Cheney's colleagues felt he had a "fever" about removing Saddam Hussein by force.
Secretary of State Colin Powell felt Cheney and his allies — among them the undersecretary of defense for policy, Douglas Feith, and what Powell called Feith's "Gestapo" office — had established what amounted to a separate government.
Asked about the book Friday, the president said the subject of Iraq came up four days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when he met his national security team at Camp David to discuss a response to the assault.

“I said let us focus on Afghanistan,” he said, taking questions after a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Asked if he had told Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Nov. 21, 2001, to draft an Iraq war plan, the president stated: “I can’t remember exact dates that far back.”

It was the cocaine and the alcohol, I guess. Just like he "forgot" to show up for his TANG Duty. Just like how he has forgotten that he took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution"...his memory play tricks on him and we are all stuck holding the bag.

Impeachement Anyone? Magic 8-Ball says: Yes.

posted by Jo Fish on 04.17.04 at 12:20 AM





Comments:

"The memory is the second thing to go" said the wise old man to the student, who asked "What's the first" and the wise old man responded "I forget".

Here, the first thing to go will be Bush this Fall: "CAMPAIGN 2004: THE FALL OF BUSH II".

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 04.17.04 at 06:32 AM [permalink]



What's most likely to happen is the Right will jump all over Powell's "gestapo" line and drown out the rest of the information in mock-outrage over Nazi comparissons.

posted by: pfc on 04.17.04 at 08:55 AM [permalink]



Do not forget that if Bush is impeached, we will then have Cheney for president.

posted by: Boots on 04.17.04 at 03:15 PM [permalink]



Do not forget that if Bush is impeached, we will then have Cheney for president.

posted by: Boots on 04.17.04 at 03:15 PM [permalink]



Arrest them all, the 9-11 patriot act can let us throw the entire bunch in jail -aka a no confidence vote...

posted by: Mr.Murder on 04.17.04 at 04:01 PM [permalink]



Hard for ther VP to get sworn in via the fakeriot act, he doesn't even get to call a lawyer. let him share a cell with Saddam and John Walker Lyndh and let the strongest one come out alive.

posted by: Mr.Murder on 04.17.04 at 04:08 PM [permalink]



I've just been wondering if the RICO laws could be used to recover everything from Halliburton.

posted by: dean on 04.17.04 at 05:03 PM [permalink]



Misappropriation of funds is a bigger story than when Prez. Sock Puppet decided to invade "i-rack". Flat violation of the Constitution, and numerous federal laws. Actually a crime against our very society. Let's declare the 1600 Crew "enemy combatants" and ship the bunch to gitmo.

posted by: steve on 04.19.04 at 10:56 AM [permalink]



Go figure. As of 8pm eastern time, the polls show Bush numbers either unchanged or edging up against Kerry. America land of Halliburton and Kool-Aid drinkers. One scandal after another. Kove and the wing-nuts have the public figured out, tell so many lies and engage in such unethical behavior so often, that you reach a saturation point, people just tune out.
As Europe and Asian leave us in a distant third place economically, we get to baby sit the middle east for the next 50 years.

posted by: local 67 on 04.20.04 at 02:19 AM [permalink]






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