hey, Rob, how do we know that Bush didn’t leak er, um, I mean want it released?
Puzzlefeet - 07:09am on 09/24/2006
Two questions to put this into context:
One: If there are favorable memos, are they leaked?
Two: If there were favorable memos, and they were leaked, would the NYT report them(or selected parts of them)?
robert108 - 07:09am on 09/24/2006
P: I hate to break this to you, but the President can’t “leak”, by definition. He doesn’t have to.
robert108 - 07:09am on 09/24/2006
Robert, great points that meant to make in the post.
If there are leaks going on that put favorable data for the administration in the public arena we certainly don’t hear much about them, which is why this one-sided media of ours is so dangerous. As I pointed out in the post, they are using these leaks to manipulate the foreign policy put forth by our elected leaders. They are unelected, agenda-drive partisans but they are manipulating our foreign policy.
That’s not a good thing.
Rob - 07:09am on 09/24/2006
Rob: Exactly, and they have been at it since Republicans started to win again in 1994.
robert108 - 08:09am on 09/24/2006
Always blaming someone else huh, r108. That’s sad, really sad.
If there are leaks going on that put favorable data for the administration in the public arena we certainly don’t hear much about them…
Maybe it’s because those stories are just not there.
What did the report about Al- Anbar province include?
What did the revised July/August body count show?
What does this new report (allegedly) expose?
What does the proposed Baghdad moat portend?
What does the increased troop levels in Baghdad tell you?
What does 5th rotation mean?
When gop pols tell us we needed more troops going in, what do you think?
When huge weapons depots were looted you…..?
When our president tells us that there were Iraq had no WMD…
When a lot of Iraq vets come back and run as Democrats….
When bush wants the torture bill to be retro active…
When there are billions and billions of tax dollars missing in Iraq…
When Raytheon gets to keep a contract, even when an Israeli firm has a better product – available NOW…
Stay the course, Freedumb is on the march.
realitybasedbob - 08:09am on 09/24/2006
Nice cherry-pick, rbb; you make my point.
robert108 - 08:09am on 09/24/2006
That was just the low hanging fruit, big boy.
You make my point.
realitybasedbob - 08:09am on 09/24/2006
rbb: Lefties are the “low hanging fruit”, and everyone knows that.
robert108 - 08:09am on 09/24/2006
Rob:
“They want us to pull out”
Since there many factions fighting in Iraq let’s look at that statement:
Certainly Al Queda would like us to pull out. They’re an outside influence and probably would exploit the propaganda possiblities if we left. The Sunnis who at first wanted us out now seem to want us to stay to protect them from the Shiite death squads, all the while still supporting an insurgency which is killing our troops.
Some of the Shiites want us to stay (at least Al Maliki does) but some of them (al Sadr) want us to go (probably so he can go on murdering Sunnis) Meanwhile he too is killing Americans.
The Kurds seem to want us to stay, probably to protect them from the other two sects.
It’s a complex problem and I’m not sure how it’s going to resolve itself.
hey, Rob, how do we know that Bush didn’t leak er, um, I mean want it released?
Two questions to put this into context:
One: If there are favorable memos, are they leaked?
Two: If there were favorable memos, and they were leaked, would the NYT report them(or selected parts of them)?
P: I hate to break this to you, but the President can’t “leak”, by definition. He doesn’t have to.
Robert, great points that meant to make in the post.
If there are leaks going on that put favorable data for the administration in the public arena we certainly don’t hear much about them, which is why this one-sided media of ours is so dangerous. As I pointed out in the post, they are using these leaks to manipulate the foreign policy put forth by our elected leaders. They are unelected, agenda-drive partisans but they are manipulating our foreign policy.
That’s not a good thing.
Rob: Exactly, and they have been at it since Republicans started to win again in 1994.
Always blaming someone else huh, r108. That’s sad, really sad.
Maybe it’s because those stories are just not there.
What did the report about Al- Anbar province include?
What did the revised July/August body count show?
What does this new report (allegedly) expose?
What does the proposed Baghdad moat portend?
What does the increased troop levels in Baghdad tell you?
What does 5th rotation mean?
When gop pols tell us we needed more troops going in, what do you think?
When huge weapons depots were looted you…..?
When our president tells us that there were Iraq had no WMD…
When a lot of Iraq vets come back and run as Democrats….
When bush wants the torture bill to be retro active…
When there are billions and billions of tax dollars missing in Iraq…
When Raytheon gets to keep a contract, even when an Israeli firm has a better product – available NOW…
Stay the course, Freedumb is on the march.
Nice cherry-pick, rbb; you make my point.
That was just the low hanging fruit, big boy.
You make my point.
rbb: Lefties are the “low hanging fruit”, and everyone knows that.
Rob:
“They want us to pull out”
Since there many factions fighting in Iraq let’s look at that statement:
Certainly Al Queda would like us to pull out. They’re an outside influence and probably would exploit the propaganda possiblities if we left. The Sunnis who at first wanted us out now seem to want us to stay to protect them from the Shiite death squads, all the while still supporting an insurgency which is killing our troops.
Some of the Shiites want us to stay (at least Al Maliki does) but some of them (al Sadr) want us to go (probably so he can go on murdering Sunnis) Meanwhile he too is killing Americans.
The Kurds seem to want us to stay, probably to protect them from the other two sects.
It’s a complex problem and I’m not sure how it’s going to resolve itself.