Whoa whoa whoa! Are you saying the Washington Post put out a front page article with incorrect quotes on it, and then put a small retraction on it? Is that what you're saying?

I'm shocked! Shocked I say! I mean, doesn't the Post have layers or "editorial process" to keep things like that from happening? That's okay though, they were probably just being sloppy that day.

They accomplished what they wanted to. The "correction" is little more than CYA.

The public read that it was the Pentagon's assesment and that is whay they will now believe.

Poisoning the well, as always.

Come now, if you had a blacked-out van full of Christian Bushbot Stormtroopers© idling outside your office, you would hastily print a correction too. But we all know the truth!

Come to think of it, my toaster went on the fritz today.

Ill bet Bush had something to do with it.

Liberals would never take anything from the WaPo as gossip. Gospel is what you meant. The MSM reporting gossip? They always have an unnamed source!

I personally don't give a crap about the W.Post. I don't read it, nor do I intend to. I agree to use Levins quotes as they did is shameful. Done.

Let's cut to the chase. Feith KNEW the intelligence did not support the connection. He knew when he doctored up the report to his superiors. His office produced fake results that although not illegal, were certainly "inappropriate".

Cut the crap, you know what Feith and his office did. Don't try to schmooze it over.

It WAS WRONG. PERIOD. Don't make excuses. IT WAS WRONG.

So there won't be any recommendations because we "learned" from all this, and our intelligence community is better for it.

As always, spare me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6348049.stm

That's all I have to say at this point.

I love how the libs are always talking about "Speaking Truth to Power". They wouldn't know the truth if it reached up and bit them in the butt.

Edwards said that the bad intell came from the Clinton administration? How come we dont hear about that at the WAPO?

"For the same reason a lot of people were wrong. You know, we—the intelligence information that we got was wrong. I mean, tragically wrong. On top of that I’d—beyond that, I went back to former Clinton administration officials who gave me sort of independent information about what they believed about what was happening with Saddam’s weapon—weapons programs. They were also wrong. "

link=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16903253/

So, yeah, he was lying, but only to present an alternative argument. It wasn't illegal, just inappropriate. Besides, he never endorsed the content of the report. I can see why WAPO retracted the story.

Why does Carl Levin hate America?

I don't care about "lawyer speak" or "parsing" by the left or right. I'm a Gulf 1 vet & this is how I've decided.

Our guys are dying in Iraq for what now appears to be no good cause.

The oil didn't pay for it...once again, the american taxpayer is stuck w the enormous cost.

And, worst of all, the "decider/s" ignored prescient advice from experienced people re the invasion, occupation, & reconstruction.

Unforgivable.

You're fired!

Come on Mark, Matt, AAR, Almiranta, lose the bongos, and on and on...comment honestly on Feiths actions. Let me read your condoning tripe justifying his LIES. You mask your commentary about the real issue, again blaming the MSM for the problem. Lets finally talk about the elephant in the room. Everybody knows the obvious. Everything-everything was manipulated leading us into this chaotic fiasco.
Its not a conspiracy. You know it. I know it. Cheney knows it, Feith knows it, BUSH knows it.

You are not Americans. You are cultists. Where do you draw the line? When, oh when, do you say "enough is enough".

You remind of the violent scared little tribe led by a scared little leader in the book "Lord of the Flys". Watch the movie again. Look at yourselves.

I for one, say again... ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Never let the facts get in the way of a good "Bash Bushfest".

Oh, by the way, I sure would like to read your commentary on the 12 billion in cold hard cash that has "disappeared". Pallets and pallets of moolah, wampum, dinero, greenbacks, scratch. Gone.

Any ideas? That's a LOT of paint.

Bacon,

We just GOTTA make a T shirt of that...we'll make millions!

raker,

And $12 billion is what percentage of the budget? Percentage of GDP? No thought on your part that it was used for covert operations and "lost" in the budget until someone took a calculator out?

And, Raker, you seem tremendously upset - I haven't seen a lefty this upset since it was demonstrated that Libby didn't leak Plame's name...just hate to have your hate-Bush meme destroyed, don't you?

raker: GIGO

You slurp up a load of garbage, day in and day out, we can't expect you to produce anything else. You've yet to let the truth about anything sway you from your appointed All Hate All The Time course, and it's not going to happen now.

But take a breath, take a pill, wipe the hysterical spittle off your chin, and calm down. Grab some fresh Fruit of the Looms, do some deep cleansing breaths. Yes, it felt good to really let go. But it was kind of embarrassing to watch.

An anti-American, anti-Bush, radical made comments which presented his OPINION. Levin did not state fact. He stated what he wanted to believe, needed to believe, to support his position, and called it fact. I know, I know, you guys do that all the time, and you all think it is fine, and just as good as the truth. But it isn't.

I don't "condone" lies because I don't think Feith lied. Simple as that. He offered his opinions. Some agreed with his assessment, some didn't. Oh, my. Sure, I could choose to buy into every wild-ass LLL conspiracy-theory fact-denying anti-conservative rant, but to do so I would have to deny or ignore years---YEARS---of commentary from international intelligence agencies (some of whom were hardly Bush supporters) and foreign leaders and conservative leaders here in the U.S. and Liberal leaders here in the U.S. and our own intelligence agencies and the United Nations and just about every human being on the planet who actually took the time to look into what was happening in Iraq. And why would I do that? Why would I even be tempted to ignore/deny the casdade of FACT? Because to pay attention to this overwhelming agreement on the dangers of Sadaam's Iraq would be to take a position which would not advance the BS agenda---and that's all it takes for the BS groupies.

Why don't you and PM and the other LLLs here go back and find some reports from, say, 1998, or 2000, or even 2001, from any reputable source, explaining that Sadaam was really a great guy, he was never supporting terrorism in any way, he was never trying to build a nuclear weapon, he had never built much less used chemical or biological weapons, he had never been involved in any way in any acts of international terrorism, and so on. NOT claims after the fact, mind you, but claims made before we decided to shut him down.

The only way to believe the weird delusional twisted fantasy you LLL call history is to simply refuse to acknowledge the truth. Which is what you do. We get it. You really don't need to keep proving it to us.

Why don't you just stick to your own kind, in your own little circle jerks, where you can high-five each other and admire your political acumen and trade Hate-Fill-In-The-Blank stories and invent horrid tales of who did what to whom when and why, and leave us alone? Because your frantic and hysterical defense of your frantic and hysterical cronies is, to put it bluntly, frantic and hysterical. And silly. Such a silly silly boy. But there are other silly silly boys who probably think you are really really great. Go find them. They are not here.

Hell, you all still 'think' Wilson learned, in Niger, that BUSH LIED!!!!!!!!!! Silly twits.

GIGO

Plan of Attack, by Bob Woodward.
A quote by General Tommy Franks about Douglas Feith on Page 281: "I have to deal with the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth almost every day."

I would expect no less from you Almiranta. Form up that line soldier.

"Silly twits"

Well, yes, Bush did lie about the WMD. It's a matter of public record.

I remember when they were talking it up and telling tales of mushroom clouds, and making a direct connection between the war on terrorists and invading Iraq.

I remember thinking that it was going to be a tiger-by-the-tail situation, and that no good would come of it. I remember thinking, "you guys better find those WMD, or your credibility is down the toilet." But at the time I didn't know they were lying, so I thought they would find the WMD.

Then George Bush "decided" that finding WMD wasn't important, that finding Bin Laden wasn't important, and I began to realize there was a whole other agenda regarding the invasion of Iraq that wasn't being addressed. I'm still not sure what that agenda is, but I know it has nothing to do with fighting terrorism. That was just a little story he told us.

raker makes as much sense as usual. That is to say, none at all. S/he comes up with some sneering snotty wannabe-putdown which makes no sense, and at the same time manages to duck the questions I asked.

Of course, I did hit pretty close to home with the description of Lib self-and-mutual.....admiration.

But I repeat: raker is the best example I know of GIGO

Go to hughhewitt.com for the transcript of, and/or the audio version of, his interview with Feith, from Monday or Tuesday this week.

And CW, you need to quit quoting lefties as gospel, OK? Glad you took notes from whoever actually read Woodward's book, but get real. Opinions are like Libs---exactly. And in addition, everyone's got one.

It's that prom queen mentality again, CW, about how being liked is more important than being right, about popularity being the end-all and be-all, about how you can't possibly know anything or do anything or be anything if you are not getting enough admiration. I'll bet Tommy had quite a list of people he wasn't crazy about, though I do doubt that he would let his hair down to Bob Woodward about any of them.

"Well, yes, Bush did lie about the WMD. It's a matter of public record."

What????????? Where?????????? And no, Airhead America does NOT count.

Not content to simply invent some bizarre tale of "public record" supporting his wacko definition of a "lie", PM goes back to his crystal ball to come up with THIS: "Then George Bush "decided" that finding WMD wasn't important, that finding Bin Laden wasn't important.."

No, you silly silly twit, Bush did NOT " decide..that finding WMD wasn't important..." He let the military do their jobs, and they did find WMD, in types and amounts adequate to prove their existence, along with delivery systems and witnesses to the removal of vast quantities of WMD prior to the invasion. Where do you GET this stuff? (Well, based on the smell, I can guess....)

And The Voices have also informed PM that Bush "...decided that Then George Bush "decided" that finding Bin Laden wasn't important..."

Quotes, please. Sources, please. Don't just toss out some stink bomb like that and assume you can get away with it. Yes, I know you and your Fellow Travellers like to invent motivations and machinations and conspriacies and even quotes, but you just can't do that here. Yes, I realize that this kind of silliness is just up your alley, but it won't fly outside of the inner circle of lunacy you inhabit.

Every time I think you guys have reached the extreme of goofiness, you come up with something even goofier.

GIGO