I can't understand why Democrats are clamoring for hearings and select committees when their previous blatherings are captured on tape and can be played back to them to refute their current antipodal positions.

I don't think you are misunderstanding anything and there is probably not as big a difference between what you and Mort are saying as you think.

Without the names, Democrats really can't express any opinion or determination about whether or not any of those statements are misleading, for obvious reasons. You are saying that they don't like that it is being pointed out that they made just as many statements about Hussein and WMD. You also point out that they could just take the list and look up the quotes, then only find fault with the ones they know Bush made and that is an excellent point. I think the big problem they have, though, is that so many of the statements are almost identical. It would just make them look incredibly stupid (I know, that hasn't stopped them before) to determine one statement was fine, while another, almost identical one, was not.

So I think you and Mort are both right. In the context of a closed hearing, with the luxury of a staff with a little bit of time and computer access, they could identify the Democrat statements. If there are 50+ statements though that are from Democrats, the Senators are going to have a really hard time keeping those statements straight when they go on their chat show appearances -- especially when so many of the statements are surely almost word for word identical.

Hi, just come back from the fetid swamps of the worst.stunt.ever comments. I bring news of the imaginary:

It seems that Phase II is the new Fitzmas Doom Scenario (FDS). Right now, its at level 2. There seems to be some confusion on the part of the looney tunes as to whats the bigger deal, the next 2 years of the Fitzgerald investigation (where Libby will "flip" and expose Cheney) or whether Phase II will be the next FDS for Bush.

I would recommend extreme incredulity once they try to infect this part of the blog. We don't want to have to listen to the rantings of a level IA FDS.

Again, this is the administrations fault, as well as the
Republican leadership in congress. This crap, Bush Lied, People died, should have been put to bed two years ago. All intelligence come from two sources, the CIA and the DOD. It's not like the President and the Republicans get to see the intel and then tell the
Democrats what's what. Everyone gets to see the same intel. In fact the Senators on the Intelligence Commity probably get to see intel before the POTUS does. It's like we are living in an Orwellian world where the future is known, it's the past that changes!

Hey! I posted that list of quotations well before deepdown inTexas did. In fact, I've been posting that list at several internet sites the last few days since the Dems' stunt. However, I found them at

http://www.jrwhipple.com/war/wmd.html

If someone is going to steal the work product that I stole from someone else, I ought to at least get some credit. An added plus is that the link above provides links to the news reports including the quotations.

Pass the list on and let's make their inclusion in Phase II unnecessary.

Also check out this link:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FF24Ag01.html

EVERYONE BELIEVED SADDAM HAD WMD DAMNIT!!!!

did i do that?

What does she mean "we saw inthe White House?"

Was Bill in the habbit of sharing top secret intelligence - that he seemed to have little interest in - with the little woman? I mean his wife?

If she gets elected does she plan on sharing classified intelligence with her fillandering perjurer of a husband?

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Its funny how today they all act like recipients of retroactive infallibility. And guilty of the same crime Bush is, I'd like to see how they spin that.

Frankly what the demacrats are trying with bushes judicial nominations is revolting the whole demacratic party is revolting

I can't understand why Democrats are clamoring for hearings and select committees when their previous blatherings are captured on tape and can be played back to them to refute their current antipodal positions.

Thanks for the link, Ace. I was wondering why my traffic spiked. The thing I can figure out is how anyone thinks that the Dem leadership is credible on anything anymore.