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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (12322)	4/4/2004 10:02:06 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Powell: first lies, now arrogance english.pravda.ru

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (12322)	4/4/2004 10:12:18 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bush: Lies or ineptitude? That is the question that history will sort out. Of course some members of the Bush administration are flat out liars. I would include Rice: "Maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency but we had no doubts or suspicions that this might be a forgery" - and her top assistant, Hadley admitted that Tenet had previously told him that the information was suspect! An argument could be made that Rice was "out of the loop" and didn't know what everyone else seemed to know. However, she knew this question was coming and should have been prepared. Rice = Liar. (Many other examples). Cheney = Liar. "We know, for example, that prior to our going in that he had spent time and effort acquiring mobile biological weapons labs, and we're quite confident he did, in fact, have such a program. We've found a couple of semi trailers at this point which we believe were, in fact, part of that program. Now it's not clear at this stage whether or not he used any of that to produce or whether he was simply getting ready for the next war. That, in my mind, is a serious danger in the hands of a man like Saddam Hussein, and I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did, in fact, have programs for weapons of mass destruction." Dick Cheney, NPR Jan 23, 2004. This was a lie since we already knew that the trailers were not part of a biological program. Cheney = Liar. (Many other examples for Cheney). For Powell it is not so clear. He might have been duped, and he has hinted as much with his recent comments. For Bush, there is no question that he lacks intellectual curiosity. Perhaps he was also duped, but he SHOULD have known better. History will judge whether he was completely "out of the loop" (and should have been removed under the 25th Amendment Section 4) or he was an inexcusable liar (and should have been impeached).