CBS News: John Rockefeller Says America Would Have Been Safer WITH SADDAM

[The Cleaner]

still in power!

CBS Evening News: Bush admin pulled the wool over the public's eyes...

ROCKEFELLER: Absolutely cynical deliberate manipulation to shape public opinion...The U.S. would be better of today WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN STILL IN POWER...He wasn't going attack us, he was isolated.

:bounce:

FYI: Amazing. CBS News is completely FOX-like on the weekdays with Kiss-Ass Katie, but seems to be okay during the weekend.

[bluedeminredstate]

1. Why does he hate America?

Appeaser! Terra-lover! Islamofascist!
:sarcasm:

[serryjw]

2. totally agree

We destabilized the country/region, brought terrorism to Iraq that didn't exist before and have angered the entire world.
Not a great day for America

[geek tragedy]

3. He's got some balls to speak an uncomfortable truth

like that.

[Benhurst]

7. When it "takes balls" for a fabulously rich man

serving in the U.S. Senate and bearing the name Rockefeller to speak the truth, it shows how low this nation has sunk under the Bush Crime Family.

[davidinalameda]

10. this rich man has served the very poor state of West Virginia very well

as governor and later as US Senator

Jay has been speaking the truth for years

[Benhurst]

11. My point still stands and has nothing to do with Rockefeller's record.

If it is considered "ballsy" for a fabulously rich man bearing the name Rockefeller and serving in the U.S. Senate to tell the truth, this nation has sunk to a new low.

Any U.S. citizen should feel free to speak out, to say nothing of a rich U.S. Senator, whose duty as a senator is to speak out and to do so truthfully.

[davidinalameda]

16. he's not fabulously rich

he chose to enter public service when he could have been sitting on his ass drawing from his trust fund

he may be a Rockefeller but he doesn't act like one

[cspanlovr]

4. The more obvious it becomes to a lot of people, the more they dig

their heels in. You know, catapult the propaganda. This 9/11 thing is going to seem mild by Nov. Its depressing.

[Benhurst]

5. Who "hosted" the show?

[CarlVK]

6. John Rockefeller is absolutely right

As anyone who's even been awake for the last 6 years can see. I can't believe I've reached the day in my country when speaking the obvious truth is such a remarkable achievement.

[Phredicles]

8. Hell, I'm starting to wonder if the Iraqi people would have been safer

with Saddam. Yes, it was as bad a totalitarian state as there was this side of North Korea. But what's happened is that the killing, totrturing, and raping apparati have been decentralized into several competing outfits: It's even harder not to run afoul of one or another of them than it was before.

[rodeodance]

9. he will get slammed for this comment--

[SeveneightyWhoa]

12. Good he can handle it. And..

..it leads to debate on the issue.

Has Bush really improved the situation in Iraq?

[Jack Rabbit]

13. That's the sad truth

And considering everthing Saddam was, it is quite a mouthful.

Do the freepers still want to deny that G. W. Bush is the worst president ever? How much of a fuck up does somebody have to be to fuck up the ouster of a monster like Saddam?

[gully]

14. Rockefeller is on the Senate Intelligence Committee

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/09/eveningnews/main1990644.shtml

He won't be maligned easily.

[Straight Shooter]

15. Dec. '05, Howard Dean was right, as usual. Lieberman wrong, as usual.

Monday, January 05, 2004

Democratic Presidential Debate: Lieberman, Kerry slam Dean


In the Democratic debate yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman slammed Howard Dean for saying that the capture of Saddam Hussein had made America no safer: "I don't know how anybody could say that we're not safer with a homicidal maniac, a brutal dictator, an enemy of the United States, a supporter of terrorism, a murderer of hundreds of thousands of his own people ... in prison instead of in power."


http://www.juancole.com/2004/01/democratic-presidential-debate.html

[CarlVK]

17. Amen!!

[Danascot]

18. There were times over the past few years

when I would not have been surprised if the US had begged Saddam to come back and get things under control. Considering where we are today, it might not have been a bad idea.

[exlrrp]

19. Ummmm..its JAY Rockefeller nt