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- MikaelMN, on 10/12/2007, -15/+76Where's your 'smoking gun is a mushroom cloud' now, Condi?
The single best thing my former Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN) did in his six years in office did was to speak into the Congressional Record that you, Ms. Rice, are a liar.
Fact.
www.ImpeachforPeace.org - Augie1969, on 10/12/2007, -9/+55Rich Senator #1: Ms Rice, are you aware of any wrongdoings in the Bush administration?
Condi: I am sorry, Mr. Chairman, I don't recall any of that.
rinse and repeat. ∞ - strictly, on 10/12/2007, -17/+58Condi lied. Bush lied.
And they outted a covert CIA operative (Valerie Plame) in order to try to cover up their lies.
How many people have died because they exploited 9/11 and manipulated our sense of loss to get us into an unprovoked war of conquest?
We need to expose these criminals and war profiteers.
They make money from people dying. And they won't stop until we stop them.
That State of the Union address of Congress was filled with a BIG FAT LIE to get us to go to war.
Not suject to debate. Period. - mikelieman, on 10/12/2007, -9/+39Now is the time to bring up this fine book, US v. Bush, by Elizabeth de la Vega...
http://www.amazon.com/United-States-George-Bush-al/dp/1583227563/
Reading it, it's very clear why it's so important for United States Attorneys to be "Loyal Bushies". Apparently ONE Federal Prosecutor is all that's necessary to perp-walk the whole administration.
Give a hoot! Read a book!
The juiciest relevant excerpt being:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=143205
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10. As employees of the Executive Branch, BUSH, CHENEY, RICE, RUMSFELD, and POWELL were governed by Executive Orders 12674 and 12731. These Orders provide that Executive Branch employees hold their positions as a public trust and that the American people have a right to expect that they will fulfill that trust in accordance with certain ethical standards and principles. These include abiding by the Constitution and laws of the United States, as well as not using their offices to further private goals and interests.
11. Pursuant to the Constitution, their oaths of office, their status as Executive Branch employees, and their presence in the United States, BUSH, CHENEY, RICE, RUMSFELD, and POWELL, and their subordinates and employees, are required to obey Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, which prohibits conspiracies to defraud the United States.
12. As used in Section 371, the term "to defraud the United States" means "to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful government functions by deceit, craft, trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest." The term also means to "impair, obstruct, or defeat the lawful function of any department of government" by the use of "false or fraudulent pretenses or representations."
13. A "false" or "fraudulent" representation is one that is: (a) made with knowledge that it is untrue; (b) a half-truth; (c) made without a reasonable basis or with reckless indifference as to whether it is, in fact, true or false; or (d) literally true, but intentionally presented in a manner reasonably calculated to deceive a person of ordinary prudence and intelligence. The knowing concealment or omission of information that a reasonable person would consider important in deciding an issue also constitutes fraud.
14. Congress is a "department of the United States" within the meaning of Section 371. In addition, hearings regarding funding for military action and authorization to use military force are "lawful functions" of Congress.
15. Accordingly, the presentation of information to Congress and the general public through deceit, craft, trickery, dishonest means, and fraudulent representations, including lies, half-truths, material omissions, and statements made with reckless indifference to their truth or falsity, while knowing and intending that such fraudulent representations would influence Congress' decisions regarding authorization to use military force and funding for military action, constitutes interfering with, obstructing, impairing, and defeating a lawful government function of a department of the United States within the meaning of Section 371.
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E. On September 8, 2002, on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, RICE asserted that Saddam Hussein was acquiring aluminum tubes that were "only suited" for nuclear centrifuge use, which statement was deliberately false and fraudulent, and made with reckless indifference to the truth in that it omitted to state the following material facts: (1) the U.S. intelligence community was deeply divided about the likely use of the tubes; (2) there were at least fifteen intelligence reports written since April 2001 that cast doubt on the tubes' possible nuclear-related use; and (3) the U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons experts had concluded, after analyzing the tubes's specifications and the circumstances of the Iraqis' attempts to procure them, that the aluminum tubes were not well suited for nuclear centrifuge use and were more likely intended for artillery rocket production. - swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -12/+42Condi lied. Bush lied.
a CIA operative they outted, in order to try
to cover up their lies.
How many people have died?
they exploited 9/11 and manipulated our fears
We need to expose these criminals and war profiteers.
They make money from death. And they won't stop until theres no one left
They lied to congress in That State of the Union address!
They told a BIG FAT LIE to get us to go to war.
Not suject to debate. Period. Not anymore!
-to be rapped to the tune of "MC Rove"
hahaha i crack myself up. I hope this gets to the front page! - Tarnum, on 10/12/2007, -7/+36"Secretary Rice, tell us about..."
"I don't remember"
"Secretary Rice, did you or did you not ordered..."
"I've no recollection of"
"Secretary Rice, were you...."
"I don't remember" - bigpeeler, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32Iraq, yes. But Niger? Please.
- gangstawhiteboy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23and since when has Clinton hated Bush. That must have been on an episode of Inside Access i must have missed. Last time i knew, i saw a picture of George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton golfing together, and George Sr. said himself he considers Bill like a son. So there goes that part of your crappy argument. You got most of the beginning right. America did attack itself on 9/11. But it wasnt America as a whole that attacked it, it was certain parts of our war mongering gov't that can and it seems will get away with lieing to us just to go to war so they can make their money. No its not the regular Americans who do it, and i find it kind of naive and stupid of you to type that blackface paint, you know that doesnt happen and you know people like myself dont believe that. If you dont understand that this administration needs to be impeached for violating the constitution and LIEING consistently about everything to us, then your blind and you deserve the little bubble that you live in.
"Juts because Sandy Berger was caught stealing and destroying top secret documents about what Clinton did or didn't do leading up to 9/11doesn't mean anything."- It doesnt mean anything???? dude exactly how blind and stupid are you, you must be one of those guys that thinks we should love our gov't and believe them no matter what. well heres a quote from everybody's boy Mark Twain "A true patriot loves his country all the time, and his government when they DESERVE it" our gov't right now does not deserve it and havent deserved a smart mans love since 1963!!! WAKE UP SHEEP - michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21I remember in 2003 driving in my car listening to NPR when they did a story about the Niger papers and how some expert said they were blatant forgeries. Forgeries so bad nobody would ever believe them to be legitimate documents. Lo and behold a few months later the Prez cites these papers in the SOTU address.
Right when he said those words a light when off in my head. I thought, wait a minute I thought those papers were bunk.
Fast forward to the invasion of Iraq and Fox news has a Hollywood style war graphic complete with theme music and an American bald eagle morphing into a fighter jet and launching 2 missiles.
That's when I knew this was all going to end badly.
This was all pre-war time-frame. I've often wondered what happened with that story. Why did I never hear about it again? Why did the mainstream media not pick up the story?
Every time a bullet is fired in Iraq or a soldier or civilian dies Fox gets $1. - swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24In all seriousness, I forsee the line "I do not recall" being used extensively, and ultimately a verdict of "unethical behavior and questionable judgement, but no criminal wrongdoing"
Too many people would have to eat cake for them to ever admit that a crime was committed. We'll see a military coup before that happens. - daybreaker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20wow...
"Niger? Please" = funny
your post? = not funny and flat out stupid. - Pile, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Mikeman, that makes a lot of sense.... it's clear the administration broke the law.. they MUST replace all federal prosecutors with people who will not indict them.
- precision4u, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Wheels coming off...oh..my...my belly is hurting from laughter....oh my...how funny!
This is all about political points, and both parties are raking in the political credit. The republicans get to rake in the ratings by being hard liners about terrorism and protecting the homeland and the democrats rake in the ratings by acting like they give a damn. At the end of the day, no one gets punished, no one does time, no one is kicked out of office and the game continues. Both sides play the American people for their own political gain, and all this article does, as well as the supporters who digg it, do is contribute to that rift and gaining political points for their particular group which at the end of the day would trade your life for another barrel of oil or check in their bank account.
Stop playing their game and vote both parties out. - InfamousAtheist, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17"There will be no proof through her testimony that SHE, Bush or anyone else lied."
ROFL... keep on telling yourself that dude. In your tiny little brain, it will eventually become true. - MahWah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12No, it's not okay. Who the ***** is suggesting that it's okay for any government official to commit a wrongdoing?
It is not acceptable whether it is a Democrat or a Republican. Do you agree? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+24Off topic: Dianne Feinstein just resigned from Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee over allegations of war profiteering. Where is the media on this? We hear every single day how Dick Cheney profits from the Iraq War. Well, I think we should be even more outraged when its a Democrat.
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@mrfoos:
Funny, it's the "conservatives" (neo-cons, really), who hate freedom and are slowly chipping it away, not our "liberal friends." - Pile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11If they don't impeach this president, the Democrats are no better than the current administration. That I will agree!
Everyone should call their representatives in congress and settle for nothing less than impeachment. If you don't go after this administration, you will never get elected again. - dime, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11At this point, we take what we can get.
If they're all criminally prosecuted and spend the next 50 years turning big rocks into little rocks, awesome.
But even if not a single one of them goes to jail, it's important that the American people see them for what they are. It'll remind them that they can easily be duped under the guise of nationalism, and hopefully, it'll be a long time until it happens again. - DeFex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The wheels never fall off. you get to vote weather the valve caps are blue or red.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"The wheels ARE COMING OFF! Here we go!"
yeah yeah, same thing you've been saying since 02 but yet they keep chugging along. - directedition, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Yeah, digg is known for its tasteful comments.
- diggdong, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Too much WWF for you, my friend.
- keyboardduder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I cant wait until this hits the general public. People need to know what happens when liars are exposed and when virtuous people come out to tell the truth. Even if it did take the guy a while. :/
- an0nymous, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8bbbbbbbbbbuutttttt ........CLINTON!
- MahWah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That's the game you appear to be playing. You're not making any condemnation of the Bush administration at all. All you seem to be doing is using the "but...but...Clinton" argument.
Aren't you outraged? - MahWah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is not about Dems or Repubs. It's about clean, ethical and accountable government.
Do you support clean, ethical and accountable government, jetboyterp? - jjesusfreak01, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12My only reply to this comment is that if thats the best thing your Senator did for you in their term, its a sad representation of the senatorial political situation, where the senators and congressman only work to stay in office, and not to benefit the people they represent.
Senator: I called Condi a liar!
People: Woohoo! Yeah, good for you, you get my vote
meanwhile, schools are failing and homeless people are dying on the streets - MahWah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You're Ann Coulter and I claim my five bucks.
- Thing2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Everyone should jump on both issues of corruption or wrongdoing equally, we should ask the media why they didn't report anything like that - it's just as big a crime! Agreed - but who controls the media really? Who knows? Who do we ask? With whom do we show our outrage? - that's the sad sad truth really...there's no one. - helpless little world we live in...the internet is our best resource.
- MahWah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@schratboy
Is that that famous, biting conservative satire I keep hearing about? - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Bush will preemptively pardon everybody, including himself, and if Congress pushes him, he will resign and Cheney will pardon him. Don't expect justice, folks.
- asdf2000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5what the hell are you talking about
- stepnw1f, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5All of which is *****, hence it's all from another right wing propganda site. You suckers were dumb to fall for it all in the first place. Your heads must be exploding with all the deceit being exposed for all to see. Well, half of America tried warning you loyal idiots, but you just turned around and had a hissy fit everytime and called us all traitors.
That list is what's desperate and this has nothing to do with liberal vs conservative. It has to do with you living in a bubble and you witnessing it burst.
Grow up! Your country is going to ***** becuse of these people, whether they are liberal or conservative. - Dolphtesla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@relentless Niger is a COUNTRY. The slur you are referring to is a different word all together. So SHUT THE ***** UP!
- ubuntuedgy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I wonder how many times she will give some form of "I don't know"?
- Thing2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I find it odd they didn't blank out the phone number for David Rapallo in the scanned subpeona / request for Condi. Odd - wonder if his phone is blowing up. Someone should let the site admin know. Let's see if I can find the contact info. before the poor guy is swarmed.
- ubuntuedgy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This has nothing to do with Dems or Pubs. This has to do with accountability. Both parties are crooked. If you think otherwise...well, that's your problem. I'm sick of it. And, I'm sick of them getting away with it (both parties).
- BillDoor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Bush is president not Clinton.
- sm1l3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Wait, you said "no one died when Clinton lied"
So, it is OK to lie as long as no one dies? Wow........ - spyd3rweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2love our consitution and the principals our country stands for, not those who control it.
- knomevol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2jesus was a liberal.
- mahdroo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah seriously, this is serious. No need for racist incitement, we got them on the rails on the straight line!
- banksbiscuit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1um... Does anyone here think they aren't liars?
oh and... why do people still have W stickers on their cars? Do they realize how much of a jack-ass this makes them?
peace out - nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7WILSON HIMSELF REPORTED THE YELLOWCAKE STORY:
"In his report Wilson said that a former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, was unaware of any sales contract with Iraq, but said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him, insisting that he meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Niger and Iraq—which Mayaki interpreted to mean they wanted to discuss yellowcake sales. "
WILSON HIMSELF SAID THESE DOCUMENTS WERE *NOT* FORGED:
During the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation, someone asked Wilson how he could have told Pincus the "dates were wrong and the names were wrong," as he never saw the forgeries in the first place. Wilson was nonplussed. According to the report, "The former ambassador said that he may have 'misspoken' to the reporter when he said he concluded the documents were 'forged.'" - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No one died when Clinton lied...
- BillDoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Two reasons nitesmoke420. 1. Bush is President not Clinton and 2. Digg didn't exist when Clinton was President.
- jlhoben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's congress? America is screwed.
- WallyAnti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Junn168
I heard about Dianne Feinstein and while I find it reprehensible, I also have come to expect such things from congressmen. She resigned in shame as soon as it was going to be public and she should be prosecuted. Cheney should do the same... and my farts should smell like fresh Cinnabons. -
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