Battle Breaks Out in Media Over Bleak NIE Iraq Assessment

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003156122

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NEW YORK A pitched battle over an intelligence assessment, covered first by The New York Times and then The Washington Post, broke out across the media today. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig went so far as blame the whole fuss -- over the negative view of the war in Iraq and the war on terror -- on liberal journalists. CNN aired an interview with President Bush in which he declared that one day the Iraq war will look like "just a comma."

The National Intelligence Estimate declared that the war in Iraq has increased Islamic radicalism, worsening the overall terror threat, cutting at the heart of the White House defense of its strategy. The assessment “should put the final nail in the coffin for President Bush’s phony argument about the Iraq war,” Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) said in a statement.

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) said that “my feeling is the war in Iraq has intensified Islamic fundamentalism and radicalism." But the Senate majority leader, Billl Frist, said "we are going to be fighting this battle, this war overseas, or it’s going to be right here in this country.”

The White House quickly issued a statement pointing out that Bush had noted that Osama bin Laden had declared the war in Iraq to be the most “serious issue today for the whole world.” It said the press report on the document "is not representative of the complete document."

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Al "I'm in charge here" Haig? Is this idiot still alive? Guess so...

[stevedeshazer]

2. Still alive,and channeling Spiro Agnew

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NJeTcPSaIKs

[katinmn]

15. I saw him. He's even more demented in old age.

What a hate-filled freak!

[lonestarnot]

3. We need to kick ass all over this one!

[babylonsister]

4. So now dimson is quoting OBL and letting OBL determine

what is and isn't serious? Is the blivet serious? :crazy:

[cease_fire]

7. EXACTLY!

He doesn't listen to polls...

He doesn't read the paper...

He doesn't read the PDB's...



But if OBL says it, it MUST be true.

Maybe OBL can declare war in North Korea so they can get off the dime on that pustule.

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. That's what happens

when you both use the same speech writers.

[Miss Chybil]

36. But, OBL is saying just what the NIE said.

Bush really should read more.

[rodeodance]

5. I am waiting for the Wh to go after the LeakERS.

[katinmn]

16. Policy makers have kept this report hidden for 5 months

Maybe we should bring up charges of treason.

16 intelligence agencies are unified in this report that was delivered to policymakers in April.

Which policymakers saw it? Oh yeah, the same ones who saw the torture pictures and videos of a youth being sodomized in Abu Ghraib. The Pro-Torture people.

Damn, when does the revolution start?

[CAG]

6. "Them ol' librul NIE pansies, I swear, them and those 12 retired generals

who keep trash talkin' our hero *, they'ze just all a bunch of libruls. Ain't y'all libruls got nuttin' better to do than gripe and moan about our commander in cheef???"

No doubt the above sentiment expressed in thousands of the pea-sized brains of freepers everywhere.

[IndianaGreen]

8. If an appeaser like Jane Harman says Iraq war caused spread of jihadist

But Rep. Jane Harman of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who has actually read the report, said she agreed that the Iraq war had caused the spread of jihadist ideology. "Every intelligence analyst I speak to confirms that," she said on CNN's 'Late Edition.'

If an appeaser like Jane Harman says Iraq war caused spread of jihadist ideology, then you know that the report is not only true, but that things are far worse than anyone has suspected.

[stevedeshazer]

11. Absolutely

Jane Harman ain't exactly some pinko socialist like me.

If she's wandering off the talking points, something is really up.

[young_at_heart]

9. Sin...spin...spin

That all they do these days....that's all they've ever done!

[Straight Shooter]

10. Frist is stupid. We ARE fighting the war on terrorism in our country.

We're in defensive posture, and a poor posture at that, considering the state of our so-called Homeland Security defenses, but nonetheless, we are fighting the war right here in the States.

Broken bodies and broken minds coming home from Iraq that we need to deal with, lack of proper care for veterans, soldiers coming home in coffins and tearing families apart. Yellow, orange and red alerts, scares on subways and on planes. Money draining down a vortex of military spending like a black hole with no end in sight, people dying for lack of health care in this country because social programs are being cut like necks laid in a guillotine.

Damn straight we're fighting this war right here at home. Frist can take his argument and shove it.

[Mr_Spock]

12. Bushco quoting OBL????

Holy shit they are desperate!!

:rofl:

[Renew Deal]

13. Bill Frist is such a tool.

Thoughtless, unoriginal drone.

[CJCRANE]

14. "Battle Breaks Out in Media".

That sums it up. The Republicans are fighting a full-scale media war against the truth.

[samsingh]

18. good - battle means debate which means people will hear about it.

[pinerow]

19. Battle Breaks Out in Media Over Bleak NIE Iraq Assessment

By E&P Staff

Published: September 24, 2006 4:50 PM ET updated 6:15 PM ET, 9:30 PM

NEW YORK A pitched battle over an intelligence assessment, covered first by The New York Times and then The Washington Post, broke out across the media today. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig went so far as blame the whole fuss -- over the negative view of the war in Iraq and the war on terror -- on liberal journalists. CNN aired an interview with President Bush in which he declared that one day the Iraq war will look like "just a comma."


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[kurth]

20. Yeah, "liberal journalists" are in charge of the 16 American spy agencies

that run the Bush government.

[NewJeffCT]

21. You know that CIA

If there was ever a haven for tree-hugging, latte-sipping, dope smoking, pinko commie liberals, it's the CIA.

And, if it's not the CIA, then it's definitely the Pentagon.

[LeftCoast]

24. Is it too late to get a job with the CIA?

Sounds like a fun place to work (erm, apart from the torture anyway)

[Kierkegaard]

28. Not only are they liberals, they are so ineffectual

that they have to resort to launching subversive reports to try and stop the destruction of our country. They're nothing like they appear in those old spy movies where they rough people up, plant evidence and make people disappear.

Oh, and they all drive Volvos.

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[Avalux]

22. Bushco shouldn't have fucked with the CIA.

First refusing to continue secret prisons, now this. :D

[ShortnFiery]

25. Yeah, you really do have to be "dancing with the devil" if

your CIA says, "Hey boss, this is too morally questionable for me." :wow:

Chavez was right - The Executive Branch, specifically Lord Pissypants is either The Devil or doing His bidding.

[ShortnFiery]

23. Where did they dig him up? Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig

What a POS freaky Authoritarian - IMO Haig has always been. :rofl: :shrug:

[Tyo]

27. Haig is the only retired general they could scrape up

who doesn't think the war was a mistake and Bush is an idiot.

[pinerow]

29. I thought Haig had already shed the mortal coil...

one can only hope...sheesh...

[wtmusic]

33. You can't keep a good Republican down

[pinerow]

34. That pic has just ruined at least one night's sleep...

nt

[eleny]

26. Can't wait for Olbermann to break it all down tonight

[acmavm]

30. The smell of desperation is really getting thick and strong if they

are taking that old war criminal Haig out of mothballs.

[BootinUp]

31. Haig? who opened the asylum door dammit?!

[liberalmuse]

32. We can only hope one day Bush is "a comma"...

Dear god, I think I've reached my limit again. I can't take this bullshit anymore. Fuck ALL right wing tards.

[Righteous9]

35. Bush is Definitely a colon. nt