Bush adviser decries Democrat Iraq plans (Hadley)

[maddezmom]

Bush adviser decries Democrat Iraq plans By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer
41 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - President Bush's national security adviser said Sunday that House Democrats will assure failure in Iraq and waste the sacrifice of U.S. soldiers with legislation to remove troops.

Lawmakers know the president will veto the measure, Stephen Hadley said, making the exercise a "charade."

"If we do a premature withdrawal, then what we have is a situation where the Iraqi forces cannot handle the situation, which is the case now," Hadley said. "We have Iraq as a safe haven for terrorists who will destabilize the neighbors and attack us."

The House this week plans to vote on a war spending bill that includes a troop withdrawal deadline of Sept. 1, 2008. That timeline would speed up if the Iraqi government cannot meet its own benchmarks for providing security, allocating oil revenues and other essential steps.

"This is the first time the Democrats — we've been in power about 10 weeks now — have had a chance to do the things that we believe the American people spoke very loudly about in the November election, which is to change course in Iraq," said Rep. Ellen Tauscher (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq;_ylt=AvhO2Uhl3VV9UYMIojp0SjyyFz4D

[DemoTex]

1. " .. waste the sacrifice of U.S. soldiers .."

Why do I feel like my head is exploding?

[maddezmom]

5. mine, too

The plan is to get them all home as not to waste anymore lives for this damn war. :mad:

[w4rma]

2. Democratic or Democrat's. (nt)

[Ninja Jordan]

3. "Democrat Iraqi plan"?

[nealmhughes]

12. Yeah, a double noun, like cat dog?

But not like catfish or wolfdog.

[UpInArms]

4. Hadley is/was member of WHIG

23 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak

Deputy National Security Advisor (2001-2005); National Security Advisor (2005-Present)

ROVE COMMUNICATED HIS CONVERSATION WITH COOPER TO HADLEY: After Karl Rove spoke to Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper about Joseph Wilson (according to Cooper, this was the first time he learned of Plame’s identity), Rove wrote Hadley an email. The July 11, 2003 email said: “Matt Cooper called to give me a heads-up that he’s got a welfare reform story coming. When he finished his brief heads-up he immediately launched into Niger. Isn’t this damaging? Hasn’t the president been hurt? I didn’t take the bait, but I said if I were him I wouldn’t get Time far out in front on this.”

HADLEY SEEN AS “EYES AND EARS” FOR CHENEY: In 1989, Hadley served as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy under then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Hadley admitted Cheney was “a factor” in his hiring as deputy national security adviser by President Bush in 2001. The Washington Post reported that some saw Hadley as Cheney’s “eyes and ears” at the NSC.

HADLEY WAS WARNED NOT TO CITE URANIUM EVIDENCE: Hadley briefed reporters on July 22, 2003 to explain why the bogus intelligence should have been excluded from Bush’s State of the Union. Hadley noted his receipt of a memorandum from the CIA, dated October 6, 2002, that explained why references to Iraq’s pursuit of uranium was dropped from Bush’s October 7 speech against Iraq. According to Hadley, the memo provided “some additional rationale for the removal of the uranium reference.” The memo described “some weakness in the evidence, the fact that the effort was not particularly significant to Iraq’s nuclear ambitions because the Iraqis already had a large stock of uranium oxide in their inventory This memorandum was received by the Situation Room here in the White House, and it was sent to both Dr. Rice and myself.”

HADLEY REVIEWED POWELL’S SPEECH TO U.N. WHICH DID NOT CONTAIN URANIUM REFERENCE: Prior to Powell’s speech, Condoleeza Rice’s deputy Stephen Hadley led “the White House effort to sift through the intelligence with the help of the CIA,” and tried “to determine what can be released without damaging the agency’s ability to gather similar information.” The uranium reference mentioned in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union just one week prior was deleted from Powell’s speech to the U.N. because Powell said it did not stand “the test of time.”

HADLEY COORDINATED WITH TENET ON TENET’S APOLOGY: The Washington Post reported, “Behind the scenes, the White House responded with twin attacks: one on Wilson and the other on the CIA, which it wanted to take the blame for allowing the 16 words to remain in Bush’s speech. As part of this effort, then-deputy national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley spoke with Tenet during the week about clearing up CIA responsibility for the 16 words, even though both knew the agency did not think Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger, according to a person familiar with the conversation.”

MEMBER OF THE WHITE HOUSE IRAQ GROUP: Hadley was a regular participant in the weekly meetings of the Bush Administration’s White House Iraq Group. The main purpose of the group was the systematic coordination of the “marketing” of going to war with Iraq as well as selling the war here at home. One clear example of this fact is that “the escalation of nuclear rhetoric” during the pre-war stage, “including the introduction of the term ‘mushroom cloud’ into the debate, coincided with the formation” of WHIG. The group included the two individual who have been confirmed as leakers, Karl Rove and Lewis Libby.

[rodeodance]

6. crying again-and again

[Lobster Martini]

7. It is hard to decide which idiotic statement to address first

So I'll start with this one.

"The cost has been enormous for the Iraqis," Hadley said. "The interesting thing is that the Iraqis are nonetheless willing to pay it."

What an obvious fabrication. There's no accurate body count, but there's a reliable public opinion poll? This doesn't even rise to the level of propaganda, it's just total nonsense.

[youngdem]

8. Hadley has a TON of blood on his hands...he would do well to shut the fuck up

His input on the Iraq war was DISASTEROUS. He was involved from the beginning with Bremer, Cheney and the rest. OSP too. Fucker.

[truthisfreedom]

9. Again with "Democrat" as an adjective. Every time you see this usage, you know you're reading

anti-Democratic propaganda.

[ninkasi]

10. What blinding stupidity

Can anybody make sense out of this statement?

<snip>

"If we do a premature withdrawal, then what we have is a situation where the Iraqi forces cannot handle the situation, which is the case now," Hadley said. "We have Iraq as a safe haven for terrorists who will destabilize the neighbors and attack us."

This seems to say that IF we leave, we will have a situation where the Iraqi forces cannot handle the situation, yet goes on to say that this is the case now, with us there. So, if this is already what we have, then why sacrifice more lives? The war between rival factions will go on with or without us.

[Thor_MN]

11. That POS also talked about al Qaeda in Iraq

which did not exist until Bush's war made it possible. Hadley will join the rest in the Hague...