Rummy is getting heat from the press in news conf. msnbc and others.

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[rodeodance]

1. he sounds very frustrated saying the press has misquoted him--that

the insurgents would lose interest (as their members are killed).

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3. arguing for lots of progress and Iragi people reject violence.

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4. now they switched to a news conference by Bush in Crawford.

[jsamuel]

2. ?

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more info?

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6. one the main things the reporters were asking --is when is this insurgency

going to end and saying that Rummy had on several times said so. but rummy disagreed and said he never said such a thing.

[Carolab]

7. That's not true. He's given his usual fluctuating answer to this.

In many venues, on many different occasions. It's ranged from 5,6,7, 8, 10, 12 years.

You know how Rummy likes to do that with estimates.

[louis-t]

9. Yeah, you know, somewher North, South, East and West of

Baghdad. We know where they are. Really, we do. Shithead.

[steve2470]

5. when I'm his age, I damn sure won't be standing behind a podium

lying to America.

[leveymg]

8. Is anyone asking about the DOD Unit that was tracking the 9/11 hijackers

inside the US in 2000? This is a bomshell that's going to get Bush impeached.

This pretty much confirms everything I’ve been saying for three years. Now, I want to know why Rummy’s shop let the UBL cells finish their mission, and what Bush’s orders prior to 9/11 really were.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/03/01_crimes.html


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html
NYT - August 9, 2005

Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00
By DOUGLAS JEHL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 - More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress.

In the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the congressman, Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, and the former intelligence official said Monday.

The recommendation was rejected and the information was not shared, they said, apparently at least in part because Mr. Atta, and the others were in the United States on valid entry visas. Under American law, United States citizens and green-card holders may not be singled out in intelligence-collection operations by the military or intelligence agencies. That protection does not extend to visa holders, but Mr. Weldon and the former intelligence official said it might have reinforced a sense of discomfort common before Sept. 11 about sharing intelligence information with a law enforcement agency.
A former spokesman for the Sept. 11 commission, Al Felzenberg, confirmed that members of its staff, including Philip Zelikow, the executive director, were told about the program on an overseas trip in October 2003 that included stops in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But Mr. Felzenberg said the briefers did not mention Mr. Atta's name.
The report produced by the commission last year does not mention the episode.

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In the interview on Monday, Mr. Weldon said he had been aware of the episode since shortly after the Sept. 11 attack, when members of the team first brought it to his attention. He said he had told Stephen J. Hadley, then the deputy national security adviser, about it in a conversation in September or October 2001, and had been surprised when the Sept. 11 commission report made no mention of the operation.
Col. Samuel Taylor, a spokesman for the military's Special Operations Command, said no one at the command now had any knowledge of the Able Danger program, its mission or its findings. If the program existed, Colonel Taylor said, it was probably a highly classified "special access program" on which only a few military personnel would have been briefed.

SNIP

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[charlie]

11. 2000

Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch, Clinton's Watch

Don't be surprised if the teeming idiots buy it.

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10. Rummy......

Don RumsFailed looks really tired these days. He's aged quite a bit from the "70-year old Sex Symbol" like Bush proclaimed him in 2001. But that's what 4 years of non-stop lying does to you. Right, Don.

And really, wouldn't he like to retire some time soon? He's a multi-millionaire, worth $136 million. And he earned every dollar fair and square, by setting up crony contracts and selling arms to both sides.

And he DID say he's submitted his resignation twice, and both times it was rejected. Interesting, no? He wants to quit, but they WON'T LET HIM.

Now that's funny. We're going to have a banquet tonight. I'll call it the "Rummy can't quit" feast. We'll have pink champagne, and we'll clink our glasses together and laugh. The old fool.

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12. Most of the questions had to do with is the insurgency winning or is the

coalition winning to which Rummy said YES the coalition was winning.

[cliss]

14. Seriously?

Now, that's news. I (must confess) I didn't read the article. Now I will, though.

I want to feast my eyes on the old coot actually saying it.