Re: [Futurework] Drip.Drip.Drip.

[Ray Evans Harrell]

"there was heavy criticism from Democrats, some of whom hope to replace Bush in the White House in the 2004 presidential election. "       I love lines like this peppered through the corporate press.   Perhaps we ought to continually point out the "profit motive" in causes that they choose to support.    We should constantly tie the "only news we have" to the profitibility of their point of view etc.  including their supporting anti-Iraqi points of view until everything fell apart and the obvious strategies, that people on this list cautioned before the war, became a reality.    If a bunch of old gentlemen and a few ladies could see it why could the Texans and corporate press not?   Maybe its something in the water.   REH                ----- Original Message ----- From: Karen Watters Cole To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 4:13 PM Subject: [Futurework] Drip.Drip.Drip. Sure to make the talk show circuit and late night joke fests.  Bunch of Bull = Texan for I am not a crook, I did not lie.  More leaks to follow.  KWC   W. House: Iraq Intelligence Uproar 'Bunch of Bull' Mon July 14, 2003 12:30 PM ET, By Adam Entous  @ http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=NUNUN2PWHKV4CCRBAE0CFFA?type=politicsNews&storyID=3085732 EXCERPTS: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday dismissed as a "bunch of bull" charges that President Bush used disputed intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq and said there was no need to delve further into the matter, which Democrats want investigated. "As far as the president's concerned, he's moved on. ... I think the bottom has been gotten to," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said of a disputed statement in the president's State of the Union address that Iraq sought to buy uranium from Africa for its alleged nuclear weapons program. "This revisionist notion that somehow this is now the core of why we went to war, a central issue in why we went to war, a fundamental underpinning of the president's decisions, is a bunch of bull," Fleischer added. 2�.Fleischer dismissed any suggestion that Bush misled the American public about the threat posed by Iraq�."That's absolute, total nonsense. The president said something that was based on the information that was available to date. In hindsight, we have said that it should not have risen to the president's level and that's exactly what we have reported to the American people," he said. But with recent polls showing an erosion of support for the Iraqi operation, there was heavy criticism from Democrats, some of whom hope to replace Bush in the White House in the 2004 presidential election. "There ought to be a thorough investigation, either by the existing committees or by a select committee," said Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, top Armed Services Committee Democrat. Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the senior Democrat on the intelligence committee, said the panel may call Tenet to answer questions this week.