CHENEY COUNTER-ATTACKS; BBC:
US Vice-President Dick Cheney has launched a vitriolic attack on politicians accusing the White House of misusing intelligence to invade Iraq. Opposition Democrats were guilty of spreading "cynical and pernicious falsehoods", he said. ... "The president and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory or their backbone - but we're not going to sit by and let them rewrite history," he said. A claim that the administration had misled Americans before the war - was one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in Washington, the vice-president continued.
FREEH/WSJ:
The Able Danger intelligence, if confirmed, is undoubtedly the most relevant fact of the entire post-9/11 inquiry. Even the most junior investigator would immediately know that the name and photo ID of Atta in 2000 is precisely the kind of tactical intelligence the FBI has many times employed to prevent attacks and arrest terrorists. Yet the 9/11 Commission inexplicably concluded that it "was not historically significant." This astounding conclusion--in combination with the failure to investigate Able Danger and incorporate it into its findings--raises serious challenges to the commission's credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the commission historically insignificant itself.
“Boogie to Baghdad” is the phrase that Richard Clarke, when he was the top White House counterterrorism official during the Clinton administration, used to express his fear that if American forces pushed Osama bin Laden too hard at his hideout in Afghanistan, bin Laden might move to Iraq, where he could stay in the protection of Saddam Hussein. Clarke’s opinion was based on intelligence indicating a number of contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq, including word that Saddam had offered bin Laden safe haven. It’s all laid out in the Sept. 11 commission report. “Boogie to Baghdad” is on Page 134. Now, given the intensity of the current debate over prewar intelligence and the role of al Qaeda and Iraq, you might think that would have attracted some notice — if only because “Boogie to Baghdad” is a nice, catchy phrase that editors would find irresistible for headlines.
But, no. A search of the LexisNexis database reveals ... the phrase has never appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time or similar publications. It’s as if those words — and the Sept. 11 commission report that revealed them — never existed. ... Clarke believed that if the United States made bin Laden’s situation too hot in Afghanistan, then, in Clarke’s non-famous words, “old wily Osama will likely boogie to Baghdad.” ... Now, that doesn’t at all suggest that Iraq had a role in Sept. 11, but it certainly does suggest a relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda.
That’s important, because these days Democrats are poring through old statements by Bush administration officials, looking for evidence to support their claim that the president “lied” us into war in Iraq. [Like, when Cheney said the following BEFORE THE WAR on MTP :] “I want to separate out 9/11 from the other relationships between Iraq and the al Qaeda organization,” Cheney said. “But there is a pattern of relationships going back many years.”
The Dem/Left has been yapping about how "Bush lied because there was no relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam - and they wouldn't because Saddam was a secularist!" York proves once again that the evidence has been out there FOR YEARS that there WAS a relationship, that the 9/11 Commission knew this and wrote about it! Yet the MSM ignores it EVEN AS THEY BROADCAST THE FALLACIOUS CHARGES OF THE DEM/LEFT!
I think all this shows that the current Dem/Left attempt to make the Iraq War seem like a blunder is false. Along with their repeated attempts to set a timeline for withdrawal it convinces me they are NOT competent enough to take over the defense of the nation, and a Congress or White House under their control would gravely compromise our national security and the the GWOT.
I'M A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT - HAVE BEEN SINCE 1974 - AND I FEEL THAT I CANNOT TRUST ANY NATIONAL DEMOCRAT WITH OUR NATION'S DEFENSE. Shame shame shame - ON THEM!
MORE HERE AND HERE. [OKAY: maybe Joe Lieberman is trustworthy - but that's it!]
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Even Radio Air America gets this one right [something about a monkey on a piano every thousand years......] it is so simple to parse.
The 9/11 Commission was so eager to get Hyperlawyer Jamie Gorelick off the hook for turning terrorism into a law enforcement problem that they regarded the "Able Danger" last-minute revelation as a dangerous distraction from their chief goal----to absolve both the ClyntOOn and Bush Administrations from all responsibility.
The overlawyered ClyntOOn regime thinks national security is not a priority----because it is hard to take terrorists to court!
Thomas Kean is as arrogant as he looks and even more stupid than he sounds.
Freeh should be in charge of a commission to investigate the 9/11 Commission!
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