Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change

[Yobol]

Retarded Rules for Arguing #432: When you can't (or won't) argue about the substance of a thread, talk about the number of posts in it. Hopefully no one will notice how much of a tool you are for talking completely ignoring the point of the thread.

 

[El Smack]

Yip-yip-yip yahoo - nobody gives a flip about what a bunch of has-been bureaucrats think.

so where was this line when the swift boat captain's came out against Kerry?

 

[cartman]

How about the people in the government leaking pentagon and justice department torture memos? Do they have alot of love for the Chief?

 

[El Smack]

oh guys.. check this out... Cheyney says: Saddam had long standing ties with Al Quieda
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=/ap/20040615/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_terrorism

Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said Monday that Saddam Hussein had "long-established ties" with al Qaida, an assertion that has been repeatedly challenged by some policy experts and lawmakers. The vice president offered no details backing up his claim of a link between Saddam and al Qaida.

"He was a patron of terrorism," Cheney said of Hussein during a speech before The James Madison Institute, a conservative think-tank based in Florida. "He had long established ties with al Qaida."

Powell says: Umm.. no he didn't.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/011004A.shtml

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell conceded Thursday that despite his assertions to the United Nations last year, he had no "smoking gun" proof of a link between the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terrorists of Al Qaeda. "I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection," Mr. Powell said, in response to a question at a news conference. "But I think the possibility of such connections did exist, and it was prudent to consider them at the time that we did."

Mr. Powell's remarks on Thursday were a stark admission that there is no definitive evidence to back up administration statements and insinuations that Saddam Hussein had ties to Al Qaeda, the acknowledged authors of the Sept. 11 attacks. Although President Bush finally acknowledged in September that there was no known connection between Mr. Hussein and the attacks, the impression of a link in the public mind has become widely accepted ? and something administration officials have done little to discourage.

Dear Dick,

Rule #1 to lying is: Make sure everyone who can destroy your lies with the truth backs you up.