The press misses the real point: Bush's leaks have KILLED people.

[Fridays Child]

The :sarcasm: declassification :sarcasm: of that NIE directly contributed to the deaths of 2,350 American soldiers, the wounding of nearly 18,000 more, and the murder and maiming of so many Iraqis that nobody is sure of the actual numbers.

Wake up, all you media hacks, out there. George Bush isn't a war president. He's a war CRIMINAL.

[NotGivingUp]

1. bush is a traitor...he should be treated as one.

[eleny]

2. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. That's exactly how I treat him, nt

[Coastie for Truth]

4. Bush is worse then Larry Franklin, Jonathan Pollard, or AIPAC

His man, John Negroponte, "blew the cover" on an israeli spy operation within Al-Qaeda, an Israeli spy operation that was feeding intelligence to the US.

ISRAELI military intelligence officials have accused President George W Bush’s administration of undermining their attempts to infiltrate Al-Qaeda’s operations in Iraq by revealing the contents of a secret letter written by Osama Bin Laden’s second-in-command, writes Uzi Mahnaimi.

Israel passed the letter — in which Ayman al-Zawahiri outlined his Middle East strategy to Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, the Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq — to Washington last October on condition of strict anonymity.

Israeli officials were dismayed, however, when John Negroponte, the US director of national intelligence, made it available in both English and its original Arabic on his office web site.

Bush then referred to it during his weekly address. “The Al-Qaeda letter points to Vietnam as a model,” the president declared. “Al-Qaeda believes that America can be made to run again. They are gravely mistaken. America will not run and we will not forget our responsibilities.”

Israeli intelligence sources said officials who had worked on “Operation Tiramisu” inside Iraq took emergency steps to protect their sources, but it was not clear how successful they had been in averting the damage to their intelligence network.

They said Bush’s indiscretion had undone months of painstaking effort.

John Negroponte, just like Jonathan Pollard (in the mirror) and Liberty (in the mirror), Bush's man, John Negroponte, compromises the methods and sources of intelligence on Al-Qaeda, intelligence that would save US lives, and shuts down a source of intelligence for the US.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages -- the real enemy isn't the LIHOP/MIHOP house painters in Jersey City watching the planes crash into the WTC, or Jonathan Jay Pollard, or AIPAC. It is Bush - Cheney - Rummie - Negroponte.

[Fridays Child]

5. Good article. Thanks for posting it.

[Fridays Child]

6. A traitor and a murderer. A psychopath with delusions of grandeur.

But, yes, for the purpose of impeachment, he is, first and foremost, a traitor to this country. Did you see post #4?

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[blm]

7. They aren't missing it - they are protecting BushInc by ignoring that fact

and doing so deliberately. The corporations who hired them make BIG MONEY off Bush's wars.

[TahitiNut]

11. Yep.

:nodding:

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. That's exactly what they're doing.

They know damn good and well people have died because of that leak.

[sam sarrha]

8. and 55,000 brain damaged vets due to absence of helmet liners

the result of this brain damage is ghastly depression plus many other physical and emotional problems for life ,, not only for them but for their families, severe economic hardship because they are being denied disability for the depression that damage causes


not to mention the future tragedy of depleted uranium

[Fridays Child]

15. ...

:cry:

[rustydog]

9. Co-Conspirator has a nice ring to it. He may have the power

to de-classify, but he still can be tried for conspiracy.

[kestrel91316]

10. They haven't "missed" anything.............they consider Bush the

Second Coming of Christ, so by definition anything and everything he does is not just ok, it's f - - - ing HOLY.

[Jim__]

12. The press always misses the point. - n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. 'Criminal' is a legal distinction

It would go against what the legitimate media stand for to report that * is a criminal, since he hasn't been convicted of any crime.

The court of public opinion doesn't count.

[Fridays Child]

14. Yeah, well...

...I suppose that, in fairness, public opinion shouldn't replace the findings of a court. But, surely, there's enough evidence for an indictment.

[Octafish]

16. Bush leaked to start an illegal war.

USA 2002: "Saddam. 9-11. Saddam. 911. And he's buying Uranium...from Africa."

USA 2006: "Leak didn't do nothing wrong."

Meanwhile: Brewster, Jennings & Associates got rolled up.

"Nuke-yoo-lar."

[autorank]

18. This raises a question of interpretation for me, help out if your can.

"The press misses the real point..." BECAUSE

1) They're just too stupid to get it; or

2) They're taking orders and they have not got the orders to point out what millions of his countrymen know, the Plame leaks BY * killed people.

I consistently vote for #2 but occasionally, I think that they simply are clueless.

I suppose it could be 1 & 2 since being stupid does not eliminate the ability to take orders.

Hell, "management" can just come her to DU to get some great stories and put them in front of the
bl ow dried ones to rewrite.

:evilgrin:

[Fridays Child]

21. I think it's 1 and 2.

Plus, some of them are actual neocons and drinkers of the Kool-Aid.

[blm]

23. The FACES are clueless mouthpieces, news producers are following orders

from their defense industry bosses.

[APPLE314]

19. We need him to beat on until November. n/t

[Garbo 2004]

20. Leak of NIE info happened after US already was in Iraq. Impact of NIE

leak vastly overstated. It was the same old shit they'd been saying. They weren't finding WMD, info was already out there, and growing, discrediting the justification for going to war. NIE info didn't stop or change any of that.

Corporate media had enough info before the war to know it was all BS but chose instead to jump on the warwagon instead.

[electropop]

22. Not to mention the deaths of our foreign spies.

Part of the whole mess (lest we forget) is that they also leaked Plame's identity, and the Brewster Jennings operation, which has almost certainly resulted in the deaths of many of those she recruited abroad. This will cast a permanenet chill on future recruiting operations, something we can not afford, given our skimpy HUMINT capabilities.

[Fridays Child]

24. The tentacles are far reaching, aren't they? eom

[mom cat]

25. The media does not care. Its hands are in the same cookie jar as *.