Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[StephanieVanbryce]

All the Wonderful things we Learned from prez.....

We learned this week that in January 2003, George W. Bush was set on preemptive war. WMDs didn’t have anything to do with it.

[n]Yet in early March 2003, Bush went on national TV and said it was up to Saddam as to whether there would be war.

We know President Bush said, "We do not torture." Yet, we have the pictures, the horror stories and the ill will to prove that we have indeed been involved in torture.

We heard Bush say, "I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Then we saw the videotape.

We heard Bush on April 20, 2004 say that "a wiretap requires a court order." Yet we know our president has been illegally wiretapping American citizens.

We learned this week, through Murray Waas, that President Bush knew all along that there was no uranium from Niger. But that didn’t stop our president from using information he knew to be false in his state of the union speech.

Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush’s 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration. Rove expressed his concerns shortly after an informal review of classified government records by then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley determined that Bush had been specifically advised that claims he later made in his 2003 State of the Union address — that Iraq was procuring high-strength aluminum tubes to build a nuclear weapon — might not be true, according to government records and interviews. Insulating Bush, by Murray Waas


..Does anyone really know what’s going on in Iraq right now? And even if the president told us, could we believe him?..

http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/NEWS/603210348/1002/NEWS01