Bush: 'No war plans on my desk' for Iraq, March 2002

[jpgray]

Doesn't O'Neill's documentation directly refute this? According to the 60 Minutes piece, ten days after the inauguration, a "plan for postwar Iraq" was making the rounds, yes? Has the press mentioned this now most apparent and obvious of lies yet? Seems to me this would be a pertinent press conference question--was it asked of him during his conference with Fox?

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/23/gen.war.on.terror/

[proud patriot]

1. Why yes it does .

:hi: Checkmate

[Don Claybrook]

17. Not quite

In a sane world, yes, checkmate.

But you didn't consider that Rove and our intrepid media would pick up the chess board and fling it across the room, declaring chess a terrorist pastime.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

2. So Bush lied? *GASP!*

I doubt that any more than a third of what comes out of his mouth is true.

[Emboldened Chimp]

3. A third? You're being too kind...

I highly doubt he's over 10%

[Cannikin]

6. Wait a minute...Clinton had them but he didnt? What am I missing?

[jpgray]

11. Yes, the spin: "we have them for every country" also makes Bush a liar(nt)

[snippy]

21. It was a Banner Year for Bush Lies.

The Bush administration did not reveal the identity of a CIA operative but the White House is cooperating with the 9/11 commission since democrats are not good Americans just as the Jews were not good Germans and government spending went down if you do not count the increased government spending but the boxes were labeled "Made in USA" even though the decorative turkey was not labeled and Bush's plane was spotted because before Saddam bought the uranium Bush had no plans on his desk to invade Iraq since the aircraft carrier was too far offshore for the Navy to make a large enough banner to describe the WMD we have found in Iraq some of which could hit the US and some of which Saddam was giving to Osama for following Saddam's plans and using Iraqi hijackers on 9/11 but everyone got a tax cut which allowed Iraqi oil revenue to pay for the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq after the invasion by a small number of troops who would be greeted with flowers because Bush misunderstood the intelligence briefing warning of the 9/11 attacks and that is why Laura dropped the dog.

There is no subject so shallow, serious, or somber that Bush will not lie about it. The only other option is not to lie. And that Bush can not do.

Ridiculing Bush over his incessant lying needs to become commonplace.

[Malva Zebrina]

4. No one should allow obfuscation in this case

rise up all your patriots, and refute this stupid, dull faced, elitist , poor excuse for a man who stole the presidency and took over our house illegally. He is desperate now and we have the first beginnings of a hold on his balls. Now his lies will get more intense as he seeks to put the blame on someone else for his own inept decisions.

Refute him, someone, anyone who has a chance , anywhere. He was set up for this immediately after his daddy lost to Clinton. He was the poster boy ten years ago being primed and was set up to be a "governor" of Texas--and the people praised him and adored him!

and that is why he HAD to steal the election when it was obvious he did not win. He was chosen, not by a god as some would have it, but by the neo con Straussians and those who run things in our government without our consent.

He is dumb, they know it,they laugh at him behind his back,and he does do and say stupid things, but he carries the Bush name, one that goes back to Prescott and to the Walkers, and would have those who are vulnerable believe he actually has some intelligence behind him because, well because he went to all those high falutin New England private schools. Geez, what is the matter with you all if you cannot understand that priviledge is worth a presidency in this day and age, even if the president is an idiot and a delusional mentally ill patient.


He is also an embarrassment aqnd he has also screwed up this country==not to mention the thousands of those who died under his orders for which I, -personally, hold him accountable for murder and for war crimes.

[yellowcanine]

5. The war plans weren't actually on "his" desk

They were on Wolfowitz's desk.

[stevedeshazer]

7. Whoa, there it is

I remember that.

Hmmm...No War Plans

Hmmm...No New Taxes

I think there's a pattern here.

[sallyseven]

12. He told some of his supporters at a fund raiser

before he was elected that he was going to get Saddam. They thought it was great. He is a lier and so is cheney.

[Toots]

8. I seem to recall for the first year or so Bush*'s desk was clean

as a whistle. Didn't even have a pencil on it. Then I think they figured that they had to pretend there actually was some work that went on there so they spread a few folders about and it has stayed pretty much the same. I think Bush* could probably pass a lie detecter test on that answer but Cheney sure as hell couldn't. I'm sure any business at all took place around Cheney and not so much Bush* anyway. Bush* is too busy campaigning or vacationing most every day.

[Cat Atomic]

9. Call Ken Starr! I'm sure he'll be very anxious to get to the bottom of it!

Or maybe not.

[TacticalPeek]

10. And don't forget the press conference at the pig farm,

around August (?) last year, with Rummy whispering in his ear, about "We've made no decision to go to war".

[Gin]

13. He's correct...they were on Condis desk...he does this all the time

gin

[readmylips]

14. Fight War on Terra...Inside the White House

Funny how the boosh cronies have us believing that they are fighting the war on terra, when they are the terra-risstsssts themselves.

P.S. My repig hubby is very quiet about the whole O'Neill stuff. Early this morning his repig/racist neighbor, rang out doorbell and they wanted to talk in private. I was listening inside the garage, and for sure they were talking about the O'Neill report. Later, my hubby said that our neighbor talks about weird stuff. Sure, our neighbor is a racist, boosh above country and repig party over our dead soldiers. I think that my repig hubby feel deflated and upset, and believes what O'Neill said, but it's too hard-headed to accepted. He's in deniel. I'm not pushing any buttons or dancing in the streets..yet!

[rustydog]

15. If this is true, and Bush started invasion plans 10 days into presidency,

Then EVERY statement since then by Bush, Cheny, Powell, Rice, et al
is proof of a conspiracy to take this country into an unprovoked war.
The now-proven WMD lies and alQaeda/saddam link lies are part of that conspiracy and evidence that has been captured on video by every major news organization.

Conspiracy is a crime and would be grounds for impeachment.
Actually acting on the conspiracy, costing the lives of hundreds of Americans, the wounding of ten thousand plus Americans and the deaths of tens of thousands of INNOCENT Iraqi's makes this a war crimes case.

If an attempt to plant WMD in iraq did occur and was disrupted by friendly fire, then there is another crime the BFEE committed..
The drip,drip,drip is starting to turn into a stream...

let's hope the spigot gets turned wide-open.

[hellhathnofury]

16. Busted.

[cthrumatrix]

18. two words - Independent Investigation ......done by Elliot Spitzer

[DieboldMustDie]

19. Maybe they were in his drawer...

[snippy]

20. March 2002 was when Bush said "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out."

From Time magazine:

" F___ Saddam. we're taking him out." Those were the words of President George W. Bush, who had poked his head into the office of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. It was March 2002, and Rice was meeting with three U.S. Senators, discussing how to deal with Iraq through the United Nations, or perhaps in a coalition with America's Middle East allies. Bush wasn't interested. He waved his hand dismissively, recalls a participant, and neatly summed up his Iraq policy in that short phrase. The Senators laughed uncomfortably; Rice flashed a knowing smile. The President left the room.

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/from_covers/0,10987,1101030331-435968,00.html

Fuck Bush. We're taking him out.