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Subject:	Re: How many things need to stack up before we throw this jerk out?
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Date:	Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:00:49 GMT
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More on blame obfuscation:

CIA Got Uranium Reference Cut in Oct.
Why Bush Cited It In Jan. Is Unclear

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48847-2003Jul12?language=printer

CIA Director George J. Tenet successfully intervened with White House officials to have a reference to Iraq seeking uranium from Niger removed from a presidential speech last October, three months before a less specific reference to the same intelligence appeared in the State of the Union address, according to senior administration officials.

Interesting article.

What I get from it is the scenario played out many times on “The Simpsons” -- you know, the one where the kids repeat a request to Homer until he caves.

So here it runs something like this:

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: No.

Shrub: Can we say he wants stuff to make nukes?

Tenet: Whatever...

And that’s how you write a State of the Union speech...

-- Hop-Frog

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		Re: How many things need to stack up before we throw this jerk out?
Another bit... MEMO TO COLIN POWELL (URL) MEMO TO COLIN POWELL: You'd think that as distinguished an old soldier as Colin Powell would know that when you find yourself in a hole, you stop digging. But that's the opposite of what the secretary of (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: How many things need to stack up before we throw this jerk out?
It'd be great to blame Shrub for a lot of this, and I do, but let's be even more specific in what is being claimed. Leaving quotes and vaguely worded claims to the side, I am blame Shrub for a rush to judgment on a matter of considerable importance. (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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