BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Barney Frank making fun of Bush disowning Chalabi

[LittleApple81]

Barney Frank on C-Span says that if Bush did not know Chalabi very well, security was not doing its job because it is dangerous to let somebody disreputable like that sit next to the first lady.

[LittleApple81]

1. Talking about the neo-cons marching into the White House

to defend Chalabi with Condi Rice. It is nice that they were able to march into the WH because they did not use uniforms to march and fight the war in Iraq.

[DemBones DemBones]

13. Nor did they march into Viet Nam when they

were all of age to do so!

Powell is the exception but I don't know that I've ever known if he marched into combat.

Rumsfeld was a bit old for that war and he did serve in the Navy, although between wars.

[candy331]

2. Does anybody have the quote where Bush said he didn't know

Chalabi?

[charlyvi]

11. Bush Met with Chalabi in Oval Office....

Here's where Bush says he met with Chalabi in the MTP inverview, then says he only met Chalabi in a rope line....

Flopped

Reader r writes in:



George W. Bush last Feburary, on Meet The Press (emphasis added):


Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?

President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. Pachachi and Chalabi and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion.





George W. Bush yesterday , Rose Garden press conference:


Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly --

THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi?

Q Yes, with Chalabi.

THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.
...

Q I guess I'm asking, do you feel like he misled your administration, in terms of what the expectations were going to be going into Iraq?

THE PRESIDENT: I don't remember anybody walking into my office saying, Chalabi says this is the way it's going to be in Iraq.



Story:


President Bush says he had a "good talk" for about 30 minutes November 27 with four members of Iraq's Governing Council at Baghdad International Airport, following his surprise meeting with U.S. troops there.

Briefing the White House press pool accompanying him on Air Force One as he returned to the United States after the two-and-one-half-hour stop in Baghdad, Bush said he and L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, met with Jalal Talibani, the current president of the council, Raja Habib Khuzaii, Ahmed Chalabi, and Mowaffak Rubaie.



-Atrios 9:18 PM

Atrios has a great blog. Here's his link:

http://atrios.blogspot.com/

[LittleApple81]

3. Mr. Perle is defending Chalabi

Perle chooses words carefully (Frank wishes that Perle chose his friends better). Essentially Perle did not say that Chalabi did not lie to us but he WAS ONE OF THE MANY WHO LIED TO US. Frank said the INCOMPETENCE OF THE ADMINISTRATION IS STAGGERING.

Boy, oh Boy....

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. I saw that, it cracked me up nt

[BattyDem]

5. ROFL! As they say on "That 70s Show" ...

BURN!!!!

Barney really nailed the chimp on that one!

[LittleApple81]

8. When I watch the House sessions, I almost never see him

speaking. Is that your impression too?

[BattyDem]

14. Every once in a while I see him

... but not very often. :-( Everytime I turn on CSPAN, I always catch a Repug who seems to ramble on forever

[boobooday]

6. Zowie!

Go Barney!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[chelaque liberal]

7. Loved Jon Stewart's line about * not knowing Chalabi:

"He sat behind your wife at the State of the Union address. Come on! They don't give that seat to the eighth caller!"

[dave29]

9. Look for him to disavow knowledge of Cheney soon

Dick Cheney? Yeah, I heard of him, didn't he run Hawordbertil?

[LittleApple81]

10. Thanks for this one!!! You know, I would not be surprised... n/t

[robbedvoter]

12. Forget SOTU, he was in the Oval office and more

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/2004_05_30_atrios_archive.html#108622561254607647

George W. Bush last Feburary, on Meet The Press (emphasis added):


Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?

President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. Pachachi and Chalabi and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion.

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