Twenty-Six House Democrats Push to Fire Rumsfeld


"...we're willing to stand up and say what so many policy makers know, that the first step to bringing our troops home is to send Donald Rumsfeld home."

Rep Charles Rangel-NY

OH NO----NOT AGAIN!
Condoleeza Rice: ''Most of this country is stable...''




WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THIS BEFORE?

PRESIDENT BUSH: ".. Well, first of all, we're just starting in Iraq. And a lot of Iraq is stable, and the life of the Iraqi people are better now than it was prior to the war.."

Speech at G8 summit May 29, 2003

RIGHT!


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In a July 8th, 2003 Washington Post editorial "Facing Reality in Iraq", Dick Cheney began: "Most of Iraq is stable..."

RIGHT!

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July 23, 2003

"Wolfowitz said that despite repeated attacks against U.S. and coalition forces, commanders on the ground report that the entire North and South of Iraq is stable."

Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample
American Forces Press Service

RIGHT!

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THERE IS COMMENTARY FROM THE WISE AND SKEPTICAL:


COMMENT FROM BUZZFLASH:

Subj: Iraq Stability

Every administration official comes out and says that most of Iraq is stable and quiet. Or, that problems are concentrated in the Sunni Triangle. I guess this is supposed to make us feel better about the occupation. Kind of like a doctor comforting a patient by telling him that the malignant brain tumor only affects 15% of his brain.

Turk
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MAYBE THIS SEEMS STABLE....



BUT FRANKLY, NO ONE LIVES HERE.


NOW, ON THE OTHER HAND, THESE GALS ARE TRIANGLE GALS



WHERE PEOPLE EXIST, WE'RE TENDING TO SEE INSTABILITY.

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THEN THERE'S THE TOTAL MISINFORMATION THAT ALWAYS FOLLOWS:

Exhibit A: " Most prefer to concentrate on the violence taking place in the Sunni-triangle areas, which is Saddam's stronghold. By the way, the sunni-triangle area constitutes about 1% of the entire country of Iraq. *(see my note below*) Despite that American troops are being shot at in this area, the rest of Iraq is stable...."

Exhibit B: "-Most of Iraq is stable. Almost all U.S. casualties have happened in a part of Iraq(Sunni triangle) that makes up only 5 percent of the country..."

From : KEYS TO THE WHITEHOUSE site, 8-31-03

RIGHT!
*My Note- 20% of the Iraqi population lives in the Sunni triangle.
Iraq is not "stable" anywhere.*

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Frist freezes Intelligence Commitee Investigation on Iraq

Frist finds a way to protect his real master - The People be damned.

Frist Freezes Senate Probe of Prewar Iraq Data

By Walter Pincus and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, November 8, 2003; Page A18


Angry about a leaked Democratic memo, the Republican leadership of the Senate yesterday took the unusual step of canceling all business of the committee investigating prewar intelligence on Iraq.

Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called on the author of the memo -- which laid out a possible Democratic strategy to extend the investigation to include the White House and executive branch -- to "identify himself or herself . . . disavow this partisan attack in its entirety" and deliver "a personal apology" to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence.

Only if those steps are taken, Frist said, "will it be possible for the committee to resume its work in an effective and bipartisan manner -- a manner deserving of the confidence of other members of the Senate and the executive branch."

Roberts followed Frist on the floor and said that unless the Democratic members "properly" address the issue, "I am afraid that it will be impossible to return to 'business as usual' in the committee."

A committee meeting scheduled for yesterday was canceled, and none has been scheduled for next week, according to a senior committee staff member.

Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (W.Va.), the committee's ranking Democrat, said he was "really disappointed" with the Republican action. "Whose advantage is it to derail asking the tough questions on prewar intelligence and the use and misuse of it?" he asked.

The GOP move follows a month of extraordinary maneuvering by Democrats and Republicans to take political advantage of the committee's look at how the intelligence community collected and analyzed intelligence on Iraq over the past decade.
FULL TEXT HERE

The People are supposed to be Frist's primary charge and consideration in his important position as Senate majority leader.

But, nooooo....

Frist is using petty politics to provide the usual escape-from-accountability for the Bush administration.

This is just another case of abuse of power and an abrogation of responsibility to the People.

Pat Roberts looks like nothing more than a drama queen.

I hope people are smart enough to call their Congresspersons to tell them this:

What we suspect the Bush administration has misled us about is far more serious than Pat Roberts' damned PRIDE.
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"It's a very grave issue if the president is manipulating and distorting intelligence. There must be high anxiety about this in the intelligence community, because they are chatting to the press."

Ivan Eland, senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California
June,2003

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Lives are being lost in the twisted tangle of the Sunni triangle while these drama queens play partisan politics.

The Dems have NOTHING to apologize for - the memo was completely straightforward in laying out Democratic options to get to the truth while the Republicans are trying to WHITEWASH the Bush's administrations treasonous manipulation of Iraq intelligence.

Good People of this nation:
If you aren't outraged, you simply aren't paying attention.

If Frist cannot lead, he should get out of the way!

Websites worth visiting--often

Websites worth visiting--often

I found a couple sites today which I found interesting.
I wanted to share them with you.

Sinister Swing, also known as 'The Left Wing of the Web',
is a fantastic collection of current news articles, as well as left-related activism and information. Well-done.

Patriots for Peace is another site that's new to me..and one I highly recommend.

Al Gore: An Intelligent Democrat

Al Gore: An Intelligent Democrat Criticizes the Patriot Act,
the Power Grab and the
Crisis-Exploiting Tactics of the Executive


What a contrast between the man who so aptly gave today's Moveon.org/ACS-sponsored speech at the packed
DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC and the bumbling idiot who has reduced our nation to
a shred of what she was since he robbed the steering wheel in 2000.