"Phase II.3. Note from the Senate Intel committee: "The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, and the Vice Chairman, Senator Kit Bond, announced today that the Committee has adopted its Phase II report on prewar intelligence assessments about postwar Iraq. The Committee will submit the report to the Director of National Intelligence for classification review. Following declassification, the Committee will release the report to the public.""
* scott horton: "Scott Horton: Coward"
* emptywheel:
"Still, we really need to start holding these board members responsible for their negligence. Condi's neocon buddies spent two years investigating the oil for food program as their surrogate "crime" in the absence of the WMD. Why isn't Condi responsible for that crime? Why isn't Dick Cheney responsible for the bribes paid to Nigeria while he was CEO of Halliburton? If we started holding these guys responsible for the financial malfeasance, we might prevent them from assuming important positions in our government, where they propagate all sorts of malfeasance on the US and the rest of the world."
* dick morris:
"I think that withdrawal from Iraq — it obviously gives al Qaeda a huge victory. Huge victory. On the other hand, if we stay in Iraq, it gives them the opportunity to kill more Americans, which they really like.
One of the things, though, that I think the antiwar crowd has not considered is that, if we’re putting the Americans right within their arms’ reach, they don’t have to come to Wall Street to kill Americans. They don’t have to knock down the trade center. They can do it around the corner, and convenience is a big factor when you’re a terrorist.."
* athenae:
"Why do I blog now? Because there are stories I want to tell. Questions I want to ask. People I want to get to know. I want to reach through the Internet and get at everything. More information, more discussion, more cat macros, more of it. More more more more more."
* drum:
Let me get this striaght: these guys dropped off jihadi videos at a local store, talked to Philly cops about getting a map of Ft. Dix, were still trying to procure weapons after 17 months of planning, and practiced for the attack by playing paintball.
This reminds me of that guy who planned to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch. Or those dudes who wanted to destroy the Sears Tower but couldn't even afford to buy boots and rental cars, let alone explosives. Or Jose Padilla, who, it turns out, was a deluded schmoe who didn't really have serious plans to do much of anything.
Is al-Qaeda recruiting these doofuses just to lull us into a false sense of security? Or maybe they're Jon Stewart fans and want to provide him with fresh material? WTF?"
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* dick morris:
"I think that withdrawal from Iraq — it obviously gives al Qaeda a huge victory. Huge victory. On the other hand, if we stay in Iraq, it gives them the opportunity to kill more Americans, which they really like.
One of the things, though, that I think the antiwar crowd has not considered is that, if we’re putting the Americans right within their arms’ reach, they don’t have to come to Wall Street to kill Americans. They don’t have to knock down the trade center. They can do it around the corner, and convenience is a big factor when you’re a terrorist.."
That's a whole lot of rancid hot air when all he has to say to make his "point" is that the troops are in Iraq to be targets. Human shields several thousand miles removed from the shielded, as it were. Completely aside from the resultant degradation of military capability, never mind the inhumanity of the sentiment, that ray of sunshine probably makes him the talking head who's come closest to being honest about how he really feels about the troops.
Treasonous cowards, indeed.
indeed - and good to see you :-)
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