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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: jttmab who wrote (22015)	7/12/2003 6:21:26 AM
From: bearshark	Read Replies (3) of 93284

I assume the Post understands exactly what is going on in Washington with the article below. "Within hours of Bush's comments, CIA Director George J. Tenet accepted blame for allowing the allegations into the Jan. 28 address, saying the information 'did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches and the CIA should have ensured that it was removed.'" "The extraordinary statements yesterday were part of a coordinated Bush administration effort to end a controversy over whether the president and his top officials have misled the public and Congress in their prewar assertions about Hussein's attempts to rebuild his nuclear weapons program. They also amounted to a rare public rebuke from the president for a senior adviser." washingtonpost.com It started with the strong statement from Mr. Powell probably because he is perceived by the public as credible. I remember listening to Mr. Powell when he made his presentation before the United Nation's about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Within 10 minutes, I thought of Clara Peller and her famous "Where's the beef?" statement. Here is what I found missing in those 10 minutes and what led me to my conclusion that there was no beef. Mr Powell presented an image of a truck and a bunker in the desert. I seem to remember that he wanted listeners to believe it was there to move weapons of mass destruction. Then there was an audio tape that discussed an attempt to move things. Together, I viewed this evidence as inconclusive. Then I realized what was wrong. If the administration believed that there was something in that bunker and in that truck in the desert, they could have proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Our military was there and could have staged a special operation to take that bunker. They could have taken "embedded" media with them and provided the world with physical evidence of the weapons of mass destruction that they found in that bunker. We would have had 100 percent support for anything we wished to do to Iraq. If Clara Peller was at the United Nations that day and listening to Mr. Powell, I have a feeling she might have blurted out her famous statement.

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