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Why Oh Why Are We Ruled by These Liars?. They really do lie about everything. And rely on the press being too stupid to notice. Don't they?
From Atrios:
Eschaton: Flopped
Reader r writes in:
George W. Bush last Feburary, on Meet The Press (emphasis added):
Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however,
an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be
better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?
President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I
can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're
writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the
Oval Office I sat down with Mr. Pachachi and Chalabi
and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made
the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written
that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion.
George W. Bush yesterday , Rose Garden press conference:
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi
is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your
administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false
information, or are you particularly --
THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi?
Q Yes, with Chalabi.
THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think
I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working
through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.
Q I guess I'm asking, do you feel like he misled your
administration, in terms of what the expectations were going to be
going into Iraq?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't remember anybody walking into my office saying, Chalabi says this is the way it's going to be in Iraq.
...here's Bush with Chalabi on Turkee Day:
Story:
President Bush says he had a "good talk" for about 30 minutes November
27 with four members of Iraq's Governing Council at Baghdad
International Airport, following his surprise meeting with U.S. troops
there.
Briefing the White House press pool accompanying him on Air Force
One as he returned to the United States after the two-and-one-half-hour
stop in Baghdad, Bush said he and L. Paul Bremer, the U.S.
administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, met with
Jalal Talibani, the current president of the council, Raja Habib
Khuzaii, Ahmed Chalabi, and Mowaffak Rubaie.
[Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)]
10:51:54 PM Permalink
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One year after Saddam, who has won and who has lost? (by Fred Haliday). There is no doubt as to which country heads the list of those who think they have won in the current climate. This is the country which has had for 3,000 years a hegemonic political and cultural relationship with Iraq; which commands some cultural if not political respect from 60% of the Iraqi population; and which has fought two inter-state wars with Iraq in recent decades - both the devastating 1980-88 conflict in which it lost a million people, and the less recognised but still decisive border and subversion war of 1969-75.
That country is Iran, whose political and media establishment is highly encouraged by what has happened. The United States has destroyed Iran’s arch enemy, while itself doing great damage to its own credibility in the region; Iran's own political allies in Iraq, among Kurds and Shi'a, are integrated into the new government structure and have never been stronger; and the country is now poised to play a major, if not decisive, role in the formation of any new Iraqi political and social system. By hoder(hoder@hoder.com). [iranFilter]
4:04:21 PM Permalink
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SS1 Flight Plans
From Space Today,
word that Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, will fly into space for the
first time on Monday, June 21. Very exciting stuff! Best of luck to
them.
12:31:47 PM Permalink
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Just what Bush needed -- more bad news about his beleaguered Medicare plan. Bush's Medicare scheme has quickly become the biggest domestic debacle of his presidency. There's the illegal bribe offers to lawmakers, the illegal silencing of administration officials, and the probably illegal refusals to share relevant cost information with Congress. And now the Center for American Progress has discovered more bad news. In a report published today, CAP notes that 20 of the companies the White House approved to participate in its drug-car program have been charged at the federal and/or state level with fraud. Complicating matters, these 20 companies have given... [The Carpetbagger Report]
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