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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (89133)	3/7/2007 12:06:24 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

You would have had to see what I just watched and heard. When a rag like the Washington Post doesn't even agree with your view you're in trouble LOL. Hell...I NEVER watch political BS anymore because I'm so sick of it - it just doesn't matter to me anymore. I really have almost no time in my hectic life to sit and watch the friggin tube...well - Plasma. But I just happened to be flipping through the 300 channels (and there's still nothing to watch) and I stopped on CNN - not Fox - CNN - The Communist News Network. As I listened I thought back to some of the horrid posts you made and thought "what is this dood thinking?" They were making excuses as to why the jury HAD to do what they did. If I find any time tomorrow to do some reading other than market reading I'll find the quotes for you. You can call me crazy but I'm not the guy calling for the VP to be killed. What mortifies me is that I actually exchanged banter with you and treated you with some decency. The friends I have on SI have to be thinking WTF is Gloop doing talking with this guy? Geez - I'm sorry - I'm not sure you need meds - I may need meds for even discussing things with you as if you were rational. Maybe I need to look into some lithium for myself...Holy smokes - You are F*ckin NUTS! How did I forget? Thats it....I'm calling a shrink tomorrow....this divorce has obviously done mental damage to my brain. I have to unbookmark this thread or I'll be the laughing stock of all my SI buddies - I need a drink now

To: American Spirit who wrote (89133)	3/7/2007 12:53:10 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

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To: American Spirit who wrote (89133)	3/7/2007 6:57:23 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"It was another reminder of how precious the American judicial system is, at a time when it is under serious attack from the same administration Mr. Libby served. That administration is systematically denying the right of counsel, the right to evidence and even the right to be tried to scores of prisoners who may have committed no crimes at all. And although we still do not know the answer to the original mystery, the case provided a look at the methodical way that Mr. Cheney, Mr. Libby, Karl Rove and others in the Bush inner circle set out to discredit Ms. Wilson’s husband, Joseph Wilson IV. Mr. Wilson, a career diplomat, was sent by the State Department in 2002 to check out a British intelligence report that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the government of Niger for a secret nuclear weapons program. In his 2003 State of the Union address, Mr. Bush said: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” In July 2003, Mr. Wilson wrote in an Op-Ed article in The Times that what he had found did not support that claim. The specter of a nuclear-armed Iraq was central to Mr. Bush’s case for rushing to war. So, the trial testimony showed, Mr. Cheney orchestrated an assault on Mr. Wilson’s credibility with the help of Mr. Libby and others. They whispered to journalists that Mr. Wilson’s wife worked at the C.I.A. and that nepotism was the reason he had been chosen for the trip. That is what we know from the Libby trial, and it is some of the clearest evidence yet that this administration did not get duped by faulty intelligence; at the very least, it cherry-picked and hyped intelligence to justify the war. What Mr. Wilson found, and subsequent investigations confirmed, was that there was one trip in 1999 — not “recently,” but four years before Mr. Bush’s statement — by an Iraqi official to Niger and that during that trip, uranium was never discussed. What we still do not know is whether a government official used Ms. Wilson’s name despite knowing that she worked undercover. That is a serious offense, which could have put her and all those who had worked with her in danger. We also do not understand why the federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, chose to wage war with the news media in assembling his case, going so far as to jail a Times reporter, Judith Miller, for refusing to reveal the name of a confidential source. The potential damage from that decision remains of real concern. But it was still a breath of fresh air to see someone in this administration, which specializes in secrecy, prevarication and evading blame, finally called to account."