WP (Sat.): Bush* Names Commission on Iraq Data

[kskiska]

President Concedes Analysis May Have Been Flawed

By Mike Allen
Saturday, February 7, 2004; Page A01

President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that some prewar assessments of Iraq's weapons stockpiles may have been wrong, and he named a seven-member commission to investigate the nation's intelligence operations.

Bush had resisted such a commission until pressure intensified from members of both parties. But he called for a report and recommendations by March 31, 2005, which is four months after he faces voters in the general election and two months after he leaves office if not reelected.

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Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said Bush's handpicked appointments "to investigate his own administration . . . creates the appearance of a cozy inside job." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called it "a commission wholly owned by the executive branch investigating the executive branch."

Bush pushed the due date for the commission's report until more than 13 months from now because, aides said, he did not want the probe to become embroiled in election-year politics. British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced a similar commission this week and called for its report by July.

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[dflprincess]

1. The quote on the local 10 o'clock news was

"..and report back to him (Bush) by March 31, 2005." Now, I said to myself, why report to him on 3/31/2005? By that time he'll be back on the pig farm in Crawford, just another private citizen.

[Voltaire99]

3. Or not...

Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Do the Bush's know something about the coming "election" that we don't?

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Since he was selected the first time and got away with it

I'm sure he's assuming that Jimmie the Fixer and the SCOTUS will take care of everything for him, even if his friends at Diebold can't manipulate the votes enough.

[rocketdem]

2. Laurence Silberman

Read Brock's book if you wanted to know about this guy. He was a drving force, a la Ted Olsen, behind the Clinton witch hunt.

The same old bastards just keep turning up within the sordid, incestuous Repuglican pit.

[eileen_d]

5. Yes, I remember the Silbermans from that book

It's funny (well, not funny "ha-ha" :( ) how Brock's "Blinded By the Right" has served as reference volume for the current goings-on.

[xxqqqzme]

6. as Bill Maher observed 2nite

squatter named a panel and told them to report back in a year....kind of like the Texas national guard! The audience roared w/ approval.

[Snappy]

7. Dems know

This is an end run. The Dems better develope some backbone and stop being wusses. Attack these Neo Fascists and be relentless. No matter what Dems say or do the Neo Fascists will attack and lie and the Media follows suit. There is no way now that the Dems can win unless they get into the mosh pit and FIGHT.