Holy SHIZNIT!!!!! MSNBC does DRIP, DRIP, DRIP story!!!!!!!!!

[ShaneGR]

http://msnbc.com/news/937576.asp?0cv=CA01


The familiar drip, drip, drip of a brewing political scandal echoes through the power centers of Washington and London these days as the Bush administration and the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair are pelted daily with increasingly pointed questions about the case they made for going to war against Iraq. The admission that the president made an apparently false allegation against Iraq in his State of the Union address was supposed to help put the issue to rest. Instead, it reopened fissures inside the administration and in Blair’s government over the validity of their case for war.

[XNASA]

1. “Crying Wolfowitz” LOL!!

That's great!!!!!

[jpgray]

2. Second that emotion

MSNBC... incredible. Let's see if it lasts.

[jedicord]

15. Pic

Notice how only the white guys are smiling? Does that mean Condi and Colin's butts are in the wringer for this?

[Sophree]

20. Condi and Powell do NOT look happy

See what happens when ya make a deal with the devil?

[Dhalgren]

27. They know what they are there for.

But they don't have to like it.

[Beetwasher]

3. Damn, that's a great read!

This could go in LBN I think..

[jpgray]

7. Who rated this thread a "one"?

Well I'll fix that. "Crying Wolfowitz" is a must read, in my opinion. :)

[Ekaterina]

4. great quote

"The GOP can bottle up inquiries in Congress but it can't bottle up public opinion".....more confirmation of what we have known all along.....It is NEVER about truth, it is only about politics.

[Creamed Corn]

8. Bottling up public opinion

is Roger Ailes's job.

[texastoast]

5. Fissures in our young soldiers bodies as well, chickenhawks!!

:nopity: for this "administration."

[JeffR]

6. It may be dripping now

But it's a hard rain's gonna fall before all this is over.
Thanks for posting this.:kick:

[skip fox]

9. Boy, even if we take it as minor as we can we get:

choosing British inteligence over (and in spite of) the CIA means either:

1.) YOu don't trust your own intelligence

or

2.) You're misleading the American public


This is worst case scenero (from our perspective). Think of what best case is:

Niger story is justthe beginning. We see Bush and Cheney actively calculating
and only picking stories that support their contentions.

The American public might put up with a lot, but they don't like to be deceived.

[TEXASYANKEE]

10. told you so - told you so - told you so

Ahhhhh, this article is music to my ears.

[arcane1]

11. they are off to a good start at making up for THIS:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=25168

even I might have to cut them a little slack if they keep reporting stories like yours!!

[T Roosevelt]

12. Love this part

The image of African leaders standing mutely by as their news conferences were transformed into debates on Iraq could not fail to recall similarly uncomfortable moments during Bill Clinton’s scandal-plagued administration.

But the comparisons end there. Clinton’s troubles were domestic, in the strictest sense, and largely dismissed as unimportant in the rest of the world. Today, with U.S. troops dying in Iraq at a rate even the White House sees as politically unsustainable, there is a palpable desire to lay to rest any questions about the war’s real motives and stem any further damage to U.S. and British credibility.

[carolinayellowdog]

13. Rice and Powell's faces say it all

traitors to their race, traitors to their country, sellers of their souls, and they know their reputations will pay the price

[Beetwasher]

14. I was just thinking the same thing!

They know that they are the one's who are going to be fed to the wolves. That's what their faces say to me.

[caledesi]

16. Take a good look at Condi's and Colin's faces....

Looking very glum..because they know that they are lying and will have to tell MORE lies as this unravels.

[karlschneider]

17. A kick and a sorta wry concidence...notice the name of the author:

Michael MORAN
:D
:D

[JackSwift]

18. 9/11 is unravelling at the same time

so the BushReich will be subject to a cross-rough action from the press. But the press is so utterly gentle with them that it might not stick. Unless there is a big economic turnaround, the Democrats have a huge opportunity. And as long as we are in an open ended quagmire in Iraq, I don't see an economic turnaround.

[HFishbine]

19. From the article

"Connecticut Democrat and presidential hopeful Joseph Lieberman, prefer to view it as a case of intelligence agencies misleading the president, rather than the president misleading the nation."

Spineless or clueless?

[GOPHater]

21. Spineless

Too religious.

[wryter2000]

22. He ain't clueless. eom

eom

[sangh0]

26. It sounds like Dean

who seems to think (or not) that it's "unthinkable" that Bush* knowingly misled the nation.

[LEW]

23. Coni and Colon

don't look so good!!!!!!!!

B-)

[qb]

25. CNN had a pic up earlier

Colon had that exact same "I'm f***ed" expression, but Condi just looked pissed. It looks like the realization has started to hit her.

[ignatius]

24. Holy shit, that is one scary picture. Condi and Powell look like

their best friend just died. Hopefully, this is a wake for this administration.

[bushisanidiot]

28. Hey, If This Goes to Court, Will AWOL Be Tried As An Adult

just asking.. ;)

[kathee]

34. BIG lol

:D

[linazelle]

29. Where's * ????????????

Most telling of all about the pic is the absence is *.

Where is he when you need him? I think back to 911 and how unsafe I felt with him at the helm--and rightfully so since we later found he was running for his life while we remained terrorized.

[ElementaryPenguin]

30. Read 'em their rights - and slap the cuffs on 'em! Bring 'em on!

Investigations, impeachment proceedings, war crime trials! Bring 'em on!!!

[Room101]

31. Love this part

unnamed U.S. intelligence officials had told the Washington Post that the administration suppressed analysts’ reports that concluded the trailers were likely to have been just what the Iraqis claimed they were: support trailers used to inflate weather balloons.

[ShaneGR]

32. CIA vs. White House

CIA wins.

[Ishoutandscream]

33. Exactly, JFK found that out the hard way

Bush better not fuck with the CIA too much.

[sendero]

35. Exactly...

... except for Poppy - don't know how that figures in.

[RichV]

36. MSNBC

I've noticed that the content of their website is usually very good, but their on-air programming sucks most of the time. What gives? Anyway...

[Ignoramus]

37. Weird interpretation of quote

"On still another tack, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday told Congress that the decision to go to war was far more complex than the WMD issue and really was not centered on whether Iraq had new or ongoing WMD programs."

I thought the Rumsfeld quote was ambiguous in a few stories I read about it. In isolation, does the quote mean they DID find new evidence but it was not their reason for acting, or did it mean they DIDN'T find new evidence and didn't have that as their reason for acting.

But, if you hear the comments in context, he says that they haven't found any WMD and it will take time to find them, then he says they didn't act because they had found new evidence.

I think the interpretation is clear. He wasn't saying that the decision was more complex than just the WMD issue, he was saying it was going to take time to find WMD because they didn't have evidence of WMD to start with, only the old evidence that they then supposedly felt represented a threat when considered in light of 9/11. So, all the claims of solid evidence of an imminent threat were lies.

[grasswire]

38. write to this reporter

[e-mail]

Thank him for his courage and brilliant reporting.

[9215]

39. This is almost like a DU topic:

CRYING WOLFOWITZ’?

The ferocity of the leaking and spinning that has followed the White House retraction reflects lingering splits inside the U.S. government over Iraq. The State Department, the military officer corps and many CIA officials were very wary of the idea of an invasion of Iraq and skeptical of intelligence painting Saddam as a “clear and present danger” to the United States even as Osama bin Laden remained at large.


Looks like were learnin' em.