U.S. will wait for report on arms -- New White House position evolving

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U.S. will wait for report on arms
New White House position evolving
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/2372324
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle News Services

WASHINGTON -- The White House began to back away on Monday from its assertions that Iraq had illegal weapons, saying it now wanted to compare prewar intelligence assessments with what may be actually found there.

The evolving position followed criticism of the intelligence reports about Iraq from the CIA's former chief weapons inspector, David Kay, comments that increased pressure on the CIA and intensified the political debate in Washington over who was responsible for shaping the prewar intelligence that President Bush used to justify toppling Saddam Hussein.

On Monday, White House officials were no longer asserting that stockpiles of banned weapons would eventually be found.

Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said en route to an appearance by Bush in Little Rock, Ark., that the administration would wait for the weapons hunting team, the Iraq Survey Group, to complete its work before drawing any conclusions about the quality of the intelligence available.

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ummmm...regarding New White House position evolving - should that have been New White House position REVOLVING -- because it's just more spin?

[annagull]

1. Operation: blame somebody else

CIA will be the fall guy, question is.. will they go quietly?

[0007]

5. The search is on, "who won't blow the whisle?"

Will be the name of the game. Who's pumping up the market?

Kind of like, "Who's on Second"

[displacedtexan]

8. Piggybacked with Operation: Stall For Time

Nixon did the same thing during Watergate.

[dbt]

2. Lemme see do I grok this:

Here in the "postwar" period, we're now supposed to see if the "prewar" intelligence was sufficient to warrant the Iraq-Attaq that Maximum Leader told us he just HAD TO HAVE because the intelligence told us that Saddam was going to put 28,000 liters of nerve gas into a remote-controlled drone and fly it over the east coast.

Right.

On a more personal note, bu$h has fucked up the traffic flow in Little Rock worse--and more often--than Clinton EVER did. You couldn't get ON the major east-west freeway across town yesterday around noon, thanks to the extreme measures that have to be taken to insure that the DictatorTot does not come into contact with ordinary people. As if there are any here...

Shit O Goodness,
:crazy:
dbt

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. It's a little late in the game, isn't it?

"Sentence first, then trial," said King Boosh in the Looking Glass. If this is the way he runs things (which it obvously is), it's no wonder he ran companies like Arbusto into the ground.

After all, when your only tool is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.

[Jazzgirl]

4. CIA being set up to take the fall.

I think the WH will regret blaming them. The CIA is already pissed about how pre-war intelligence was used. They won't go quietly into the night....

[isbister]

6. Bush should dust off some of the old arguments

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

"Nothing he has done has convinced me?I'm confident the Secretary of Defense?that he is the kind of fellow that is willing to forgo weapons of mass destruction, is willing to be a peaceful neighbor, that is?will honor the people?the Iraqi people of all stripes, will?values human life. He hasn't convinced me, nor has he convinced my administration."

Crawford, Texas, Aug. 21, 2002

"There's no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world's worst weapons."

South Bend, Ind., Sept. 5, 2002

"There's an old saying in Tennessee?I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee?that says, fool me once, shame on?shame on you. Fool me?you can't get fooled again."

Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

"People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you."?

Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

[seasat]

7. Lets view the evolution of the spin...

First we had

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Then we had,

Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs

Next came,

Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Activities

Now we have,

Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Related Activities

What will the final justification be?

Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Related Activity Thoughts

It makes perfect sense. Sadaam committed a thought-crime violation under section 1984 of the Patriot Act.

[TacticalPeek]

9. Evolving from slime to scum.