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- OSWW, on 06/22/2008, -93/+630If this has any truth, I would hope that W would be charged with High Crimes and Treason by Federal authorities on January 20, 2009.
- Smooooth, on 06/23/2008, -21/+329Inaccurate. The Weekly Standard editor said that he thinks that Bush might possibly bomb Iran if Obama wins.
Here is the quote from Bill Kristol (In response to Matthews asking if Obama wins will Bush strike Iran)
KRISTOL: "I don’t know. I mean, I think he would worry about it. On the other hand, you can’t — it’s hard to make foreign policy based on guesses of election results. I think Israel is worried though. I mean, what is, what signal goes to Ahmadinejad if Obama wins on a platform of unconditional negotiations and with an obvious reluctance to even talk about using military force."
So, this should be re-submitted with a title of "Weekly Standard editor is not sure whether or not Bush would authorize military strikes regardless of the general election outcome." But, hey! Then nobody would digg this article, right? Huff Po is just as "fair and balanced" as Fox News. - NinjaPig, on 06/23/2008, -13/+227I'm sorry..but did anyone forget to read the part that the person who said this was Bill Kristol? Come on guys, his name is referenced in every article about neocons. I don't know if this is true or not, but of course the guy is going to say ***** like that.
- EatingPie, on 06/23/2008, -8/+212There is NO truth to this. The original headline:
**KRISTOL: Bush Might Bomb Iran If He 'Thinks Obama's Going To Win'
"On Fox News Sunday this morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said that President Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he believes Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is going to be elected."
An editor said this. NOT Bush. NOT the White House. NOT the Pentagon. It was pure speculation in the heat of the moment.
The Huffington Post at least headlines with the words "Kristol: Bush might..." which the Digg headline removes this like it's a done deal, gonna happen, straight from the top.
But it gets Diggs like it's God's given truth. Political ideologies override reasoned thought, debate, or accuracy in media.
-Pie - wild, on 06/23/2008, -8/+165Guys, as an Obama supporter, lets bury this for being inaccurate. The title of the Digg makes it sound like the quotes are Bush's. They are not. They are a pundit's speculation on what he thinks he might say.
Lets try and be the intelligent supporters and save the diggs for something with real news behind it. - Panzwhore, on 06/23/2008, -11/+94Like this claim has any merit....
- hotlatte, on 06/23/2008, -3/+82It's huffingtonpost.com, quoting Fox news, quoting a Weekly Standard editor. Now there's a source for unbiased, accurate news. BWAHHHH!!!
- duckstrap, on 06/23/2008, -4/+79you know what I hate? I hate it when somebody puts up a completely inaccurate headline. Kristol thinks Bush might bomb Iran. Buried.
- Vigilo, on 06/23/2008, -46/+111For gods sake Obama and Bush both answer to the same Bankers and corporate leaders they are both puppets. Republicans take office then Democrats, they just take turns to make us think we have choice when there is no difference. If Bush bombs Iran it is just so that Obama gets off the hook with saying he will pull out troops from Iraq. Its all a fraud folks Obama supported FISA last week and the dems just agreed to fund the war for another year. WAKE UP!!
- Xondar, on 06/22/2008, -64/+122What a dirty thing to do. They need to impeach the bastard and throw him in jail forever to prevent more crap like this.
- inactive, on 06/23/2008, -14/+69I've seen some bull ***** stories on Digg before, but this one takes the cake..BURIED !!
- njndirish, on 06/23/2008, -6/+55Digg has hit an all time low. Bush is an idiot, but he isn't brainless. Huffingtonpost continues to spew out garbage and ***** and so many of the sheep on Digg eat it all up. Buried for pure headline grabbing title and for the sheep's own good.
- wooFmeoWoinK, on 06/22/2008, -77/+125does this really shock anyone?
- hotlatte, on 06/23/2008, -3/+48It's huffingtonpost.com, quoting Fox news, quoting a Weekly Standard editor. Now there's a source for unbiased, accurate news. BWAHHHH!!!
- TheInformer, on 06/23/2008, -8/+51Yet another daily article from Huffington Post. If Digg is going to be a mouthpiece for them, why not merge?
- nd12nc, on 06/23/2008, -12/+54stupidest article ever.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 06/23/2008, -8/+50HuffPoo is to FEARMONGERING as Bruce Lee is to Nunchucks.
- zackintosh, on 06/23/2008, -8/+50This guy sure has fallen since When Harry Met Sally.
- bjs3171, on 06/23/2008, -3/+44ugh. burried. this is sensationalist coverage of an opinion. this is not taken from any sort of press release, only conjecture.
- nellshini, on 06/23/2008, -1/+31This article is using candid comments of a 3rd party reporter as a source?
- CrazedLeper, on 06/23/2008, -7/+33Little known fact: Pearl Harbor was no surprise. They provoked Japan by interfering with their oil supply. They well knew Japan would respond militarily and they were looking forward to it, knowing how they would "respond". In chess, that's called a "discovered attack." Don't play chess? Then you're a pawn.
- Shoegaze99, on 06/23/2008, -2/+26It's getting to be sickening. All HP links are buried on site. No way in hell will I give them my clicks.
Buried for being yet another HP link, buried for sensationalist headline, buried for innaccuracy. - rinote, on 06/23/2008, -2/+26That's a little sensationalist, don't you think?
- HappyScrappy, on 06/23/2008, -3/+27This is 3rd hand speculation from a pundit. Don't get excited.
- Steinr, on 06/23/2008, -19/+42Ron Paul - Come and find me!
- hrhs556x, on 06/23/2008, -3/+26Burried, we have no idea if that's the case
- turnthepage, on 06/23/2008, -6/+28The evolution of digg political news sources:
May - September 2007 - crooksandliars.com
September - February 2008 - rawstory.com
February - Present - huffingtonpost.com - webkami, on 06/23/2008, -6/+27"...He thinks..."
That is a lie - OSWW, on 06/22/2008, -8/+28Nah, just terrifies me because it could happen!
- NCSUspoon, on 06/23/2008, -23/+42It's good to question authority. However when you automatically suspect that every single politician is a complete corporate puppet, then there is no chance of hope for any future. Let me ask you, what would be a better alternative? I am tired of hearing people complaining about all this and I have never heard anyone's lighthearted opinion with anyone else. Any if you say Ron Paul, I swear to god I'll find you and cut off your little toe.
- Artimusbill, on 06/23/2008, -3/+22I couldn't agree more. We have had a one party system for many decades.
- JigoroKano, on 06/23/2008, -3/+22Never pretend that you can distinguish what is and isn't a candidates real position. You only trick yourself into making who you like agreeable and who you don't like disagreeable.
- sovereign3, on 06/23/2008, -1/+19I agree. It would have been more appropriate for the OP to post the story as: "Kristol: Iran attack more likely if Bush expects an Obama win."
The headline as it is, is sensationalist and misleading. - JQP123, on 06/23/2008, -3/+21"Lets try and be the intelligent supporters and save the diggs for something with real news behind it."
Intelligent? digg? Nahhh. Nice try though. - dragon76, on 06/23/2008, -0/+17The point of the Senate is to exactly make sure that big states can't push around small states. Do you REALLY want California, Texas, New York and Florida making all the decisions for the other 46 states?
- donte, on 06/23/2008, -3/+20But a random hypothetical statement by a political pundit who is not a member of the bush administration at all is being quoted and over-analyzed by a far-left-leaning blog... what do you mean there is no merit to this story?
I really wish diggers would start to scrutinize the Huffington Post's content in the same way it does most mainstream media outlets because these days it mostly spews crap and lots of people here seem to think it's news. - inactive, on 06/23/2008, -3/+20How is it going to happen if everybody says that?
- Artimusbill, on 06/23/2008, -0/+16Man, why you gotta break out the facts like that.
- trumpydumpy, on 06/23/2008, -5/+20"Kristol is associated with a number of conservatively aligned think tanks: he cofounded the neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) in 1997 with Robert Kagan, he is a member of the board of trustees for the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and he is a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the neoconservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. Kristol has also been an attendee at Bilderberg Group conferences."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kristol
One of the core missions outlined in the 2000 report Rebuilding America's Defenses is "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars."[26]
The report also states:
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_A ... - evilesttoast, on 06/23/2008, -18/+33Ron Paul is the obvious choice...*hides*
- superal1394, on 06/23/2008, -2/+16Because the Bush family is INCREDIBLY rich, and has more connections than you know. Even if they do charge him, the case will be gutted from the inside out by the Bush family doing all they can, pulling every string, silencing everyone they don't like, to make it go away, and Bush will go hide in a mansion on a beach to live out his days.
- PopcornDave, on 06/23/2008, -2/+16Basically, you've got one of the talking heads speculating on something that might keep his career afloat a little longer by making possibly outrageous statements. Nothing new here.
- DaDrake, on 06/23/2008, -21/+35Huffington Post is so much more worst than Fox.... they don't even try to be fair and balance. Atleast fox always have some token liberal on to balance things out.
- dafragsta, on 06/23/2008, -8/+22It's Huffington Post, what do you expect? I think it's too easy to take sides and always assume your side is right. I hate the neocon dittoheads as much as I hate the liberal because it's trendy dittoheads. Bush being a douche is not a basis on which to sell more lies. You just get lies on top of lies.
- hiphopjon, on 06/23/2008, -5/+18same
- inactive, on 06/23/2008, -3/+16I am shocked that you believe this.
- MacEnvy, on 06/23/2008, -3/+15You righties sure are thin-skinned for such Internet tough guys. Here's the YouTube of Kristol saying it on FoxNews, so that you don't have to offend your conservative sensibilities by going to a website that may not say what you want to hear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df29oyEdSRI
(not a rickroll) - thefirstenemy, on 06/23/2008, -4/+16To the people digging down avengingturnip, I don't think he was actually suggesting the bombing of Iran. I think his intent was to illustrate McCain's desire to continue Bush's policies and desire to attack Iran from a comment McCain made sometime last summer.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg -
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