White House Contradicts Bush, Says He Was Told In August That Iran May Have Halted Nuclear Program

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President Bush was told in August that Iran's nuclear weapons program "may be suspended," the White House said Wednesday, which seemingly contradicts the account of the meeting given by Bush Tuesday.

Adm. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, told Bush the new information might cause intelligence officials to change their assessment of the Iranian program, but said analysts needed to review the new data before making a final judgment, White House press secretary Dana Perino said late Wednesday.

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I LOVE Bob Cesca and his profanity. It is a measure of the anger, disillusionment and near-hopelessness that we can read these blogs that are full of angst and hyperbole. I read them because I find my own anger affirmed. If GWB knew HOW to access the blogosphere and read about himself, his skull might just fuse! Nothing so simple a remedy for VP Cheney. What a dangerous, sinister man.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:24 PM on 12/06/2007
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I'm beginning to wonder if this is just more "smoke and mirrors." The administration has cherry-picked intelligence in the past to suit their neocon intentions. Why all of a sudden would they open Pandora's box and in doing so, open themselves up to ridicule and distrust? Unless they simply don't give a sh*t. Did the idiots finally figure out that "shock and awe" tactics would not be sufficient to destroy Irans highly-fortified, underground facilities? Did they finally figure out that an attack on Iran would badly hurt the Republican's chances in 2008? Would someone please explain this to me?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:05 AM on 12/06/2007

Baloney! Don't soften it up. As sickening as it is to think, he is the president; he must have been informed of the CIA report 2 years ago.
And there are those of us who knew for much longer that his desires for more war were not due to any American need, but were dictated to him by another interested party, one that for far too long has dictated "our" foreign policy.

Bush listens to his God's dictates; but his God is definitely not the one the Aramaic speaking Jesus called "Allaha." Nor is he one that is always truthful either; think of all those facts he got wrong about Iraq.

There are a lot of people in and around our government pushing war and hatred. I think an intelligent nation would learn to beware such.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:34 AM on 12/06/2007

Another day another story that proves that Bush is a lying sack of shit. I knew this back in 2000. Let me know where something more important comes up, like Bush getting impeached.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:02 AM on 12/06/2007

So he was told in August? Why not two years ago when the CIA report came out?
Or does it even matter what the puppet was told and when he was told it?
He only waits for his God to tell him what to do and who to do it to.
And his God resides in Jerusalem.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:01 AM on 12/06/2007
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thanks, tellmethetruth, for leading me to this article. now i know bush has said he doesn't read, but rather gets the news from those he believes is reading - can someone please explain to me how some knew of this report last year, but bush has never heard of it....
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November 21, 2006
Hersh

The Next Act: Will the Republicans" Mid-Term Loss Hurt Chances of a War on Iran?

In a new article for the New Yorker, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports Vice President Dick Cheney told a White House meeting one month before the mid-term elections that a Democratic victory would have little effect on the administration"s decision to go to war. But plans for a military option were made "far more complicated" by a secret CIA report which has found no conclusive evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/21/the_next_act_will_the_republicans

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:55 AM on 12/06/2007

Poor, poor BettyJo. He was so hoping for a bombing of Iran under his Holiday Tree. So sad!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:25 AM on 12/06/2007

Poor, poor BettyJo. He was hoping for a bombing of Iran to be under his Holiday tree!!! So sad.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:15 AM on 12/06/2007

This would make him a...oh, what's the word? It begins with an 'l," I think.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:27 AM on 12/06/2007

All Crooks are Liars
Part One

The treasonous lying war criminal and thief formerly known as "our president" - though he was never legally elected - is still lying, and will continue to lie even after he leaves office - Oh, when will that day come!

I do not need a moron in the person of a spokesperson - who is PAID TO LIE (check with Scott McClellan) - to tell me the meaning of the words of her moron boss.

We can call Bush a liar because he declared Saddam to have nuclear weapons AND he declared Saddam to be behind the 11 September 2001 debacle that Bush failed to prevent. Cheney still prostitutes this lie at all his drink-tank dinners. Rice continues to prevaricate and hasn't given a straight answer on anything for years (check the "extraordinary rendition" files).

And if there is a liar in the Fright House today who has LED OUR SOLDIERS TO MURDER A MILLION INNOCENT PEOPLE for no reason, then it is perfectly okay to use this FACT for "political purposes", those purposes being to prevent another war criminal from occupying that office - and another lair. Seems to be plenty of liars running on the Gulag-Of-Pigs "ticket".

Bush wants to bomb Iran, and Cheney wants to drink Iranian blood while helping Halliburton "rebuild" Iran, perhaps so it can look like Iraq. They will cry every day, "Support our troops!", while Iranian children in their nightshirts blow them up with bombs that no longer have to be snuck across the border.

Billions of dollars can then be moved from the US treasury into the pockets of his friends.

THERE IS NO OTHER AGENDA HERE.
(cont.)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:26 AM on 12/06/2007

All Crooks are Liars
Part Two

Karl Rove is working to steal your next election so this fiasco of shenanigans can continue on indefinitely. Karl Rove and Bill Kristol have to keep stealing so they can keep eating. Ghouliani-Nosferatu wants to shove his sperm-splattered fingers into that pie, and to bomb everyone he hates.

Expect more "compassionate conservatism", and so, expect more Katrinas; expect more stupid unjustified wars; expect more massive deficits; expect more middle class thrown into ruin; expect more dead babies in our hospitals; expect more hungry and homeless....

But more than anything else - EXPECT MORE LIES...!!!

All the tax money that these bastards steal and misuse came from the hard work of people like you and me, and not from the thieving war criminals WHO OCCUPY OUR NATION ILLEGALLY - we are occupied by friends of foreign oil powers.

This tax money is for the US people, not for Iraq, and not for Sodomy Arabia, and not for Israel, and not for Halliburton.

Why are your roads and bridges falling? Why are your elections stolen? Why are your streets unsafe? Why are your babies dying in the hospitals? Why are your children unable to read?

Do I really have to answer these questions?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:25 AM on 12/06/2007

This was reported in Amy Goodman's Democracy Now on August 10th, 2007.

"Cheney Urges Military Strikes on Iran
Vice President Dick Cheney is reportedly urging President Bush to directly confront Iran by launching airstrikes at suspected Iranian training camps inside Iraq run by the Quds force, a special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. According to the McClatchy newspapers, Cheney made the proposal several weeks ago but the idea was opposed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. On Thursday President Bush warned Iran that it would face consequences if they continue to arm and train insurgents in Iraq.

President Bush: "One of the main reasons that I asked Ambassador Crocker to meet with Iranians inside Iraq was to send the message that there will be consequences for people transporting, delivering EFPs, highly sophisticated IEDs that kill Americans in Iraq. Prime Minister Maliki is visiting in Tehran today. His message, I"m confident will be, stabilize, don"t destabilize. And the sending of weapons into Iraq is a destabilizing factor."


"Sen. Biden Suggests Criminal Charges Against Bush Officials
Impeachment has been making headlines recently in the city of Kent, Ohio. Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden has suggested criminal charges could someday be filed against members of the Bush administration. In a recent interview with Newsweek, Biden said there are alternatives to the impeachment of President Bush. Biden said: "I think we should be acquiring and accumulating all the data that is appropriate for possibly bringing criminal charges against members of this administration at a later date."


Please note: This Iran war plans have been going on for a number of years which Joe Biden as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee is aware of, as well as the intelligence reports of the CIA which were actually made public 1 year ago after the Democrats took control of Congress.

See again Amy Goodman - Democracy Now. August 10th, 2007.

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/8/10/headlines#7

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:26 AM on 12/06/2007

This will blow everyone away. Cheney was planning to strike Iran but the Democrats winning Congress ruined this plot.

http://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/21/the_next_act_will_the_republicans

According to Amy Goodman who interviewed Seymour Hersh. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for the New Yorker. His latest article is called "The Next Act: Is a Damaged Administration Less Likely To Attack Iran, or More?"

Per Seymour Hersh the CIA released a report over 1 year ago saying Iran had not WMDs, but Cheney still wanted to go to war with Iran.

Wow! Cheney has only been stopped by the Democratic controlled Congress, and Joe Biden as the head of the Foreign Relations Committee (Senator Hegel is also on this committee).

Electing a Democratic Congress in 2006 - stopped WWIII. But we are still fighting the battle - it is not November 2008.

Read this - it is mind blowing.


    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:24 AM on 12/06/2007
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Short-term memory loss. Sign of over-medication.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:17 AM on 12/06/2007
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