Bush Admin Officials Confused as Ever: Condi Rice, Cheney, DeLay, and the Question of WMDs

[The Cleaner]

What a bunch of bumbling criminals! This morning, Condi Rice was on the Today Show, lying her sorry behind off once again (how in the world she was voted in as Secretary of State I'll never know after her "we had no idea planes would be used as weapons" line of bull). She said we KNEW Saddam had WMDs in 1991 (duh - they all knew - the U.S. gave Saddam those weapons to fight against Iran), that if he was still president of Iraq today he would have invaded other countries, and focused on the "Saddam was a bad man, a very very bad man" argument.

Of course Saddam was a bad man. But did he ever threaten the United States? After all, isn't the whole concept of pre-emptive war based on the idea that a country has already threatened us, and we must strike them before they strike us? Hell, even Bush was forced to admit Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11! And further reports indicated no connection whatsoever between Saddam and international terrorism! To whit, Mr. "Jesus is on my side" Tom DeLay on Sunday's Meet the Press even regurgitated this same argument of a Saddam/terrorism connection by claiming they knew terrorist training camps existed in Iraq!

But the most interesting (and contradictory) thing Rice said this morning on the Today Show was that Saddam was pursuing WMDs. Pursuing is a whole lot different than actually having WMDs, which Bush, Rice, "Tricky Dick" Cheney, Rumsfeld, and company forcefully and ruthlessly drilled into the psyche of the American mind.

"There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction," said a confident pre-war Cheney. But now Cheney says whether or not weapons of mass destruction were present in Iraq, it was still the right move to invade. Translation: "It really doesn't matter whether or not Saddam had WMDs. It really doesn't matter if we did or didn't lie to the American people and to Congress. We wanted to invade Iraq and we invaded Iraq."

Images of mushroom clouds dancing in our heads; Saddam seeking uranium from Niger for nuclear weapons; aluminum tubes; vials of death coming into our ports; poison pens; anthrax; the list goes on and on.

Now back to the infamous Condi Rice. Essentially she is now saying, "Oh no, we didn't mean Saddam actually HAD WMDs. Why in the world would anyone think that? We're saying Saddam was pursuing WMDs; that he had the capability." BOLOGNA!

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In what was probably the most well put together PBS Frontline program ever: The Dark Side, Richard Clarke reveals how he was firmly pressured by none other than Lewis "Scooter" Libby to fabricate the intelligence leading up to the Iraq war. That's right - a top WHITE HOUSE official coercing our intelligence community into fabricating intelligence in order to actually create the context for war!

I'm not buying Rice's or anybody else's line of bull, and thankfully, the American people are beginning to see these overt contradictions as well. I say: IMPEACH ALREADY! We've had every investigation we can have. We KNOW how Bush was using his domestic spying program. We KNOW they brought us into war under false pretenses. Isn't lying to Congress and the American public enough to warrant impeachment? I think so, dammit, it's the only responsible thing to do in order to preserve our democracy.

Think Progress: 60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002: Tonight on 60 Minutes, CIA analyst Tyler Drumheller revealed that in the fall of 2002, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others were told by CIA Director George Tenet that Iraq’s foreign minister — who agreed to act as a spy for the United States — had reported that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction program.

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/04/60_minutes_bush.html

[The Cleaner]

1. Please K&R if you feel impeachment is important on this basis...

thx :)