WP: Report's Release Comes at Bad Time for Bush

[kskiska]

(snip)

From the perspective of the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign, the timing could hardly be worse, coming 27 days before the election, two days before the second presidential debate and a day after publication of Ambassador L. Paul Bremer's assertion that the United States had deployed too few troops in Iraq early on.

Duelfer was appointed in January by George J. Tenet, who was then director of the CIA. Duelfer operated independently of the White House, which had no control over the report's timing.

A U.S. official, who declined to be further described, said the timing of the report -- which is dated last Thursday -- was controlled by Duelfer, a former U.N. weapons inspector who had said in interviews before his appointment that he doubted chemical or biological weapons would be found.

"Charlie promised months ago that when the report was done, he would put it out, and that's what he's doing," the official said. "It's completely his show."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13152-2004Oct6.html

[jdj]

1. Iraq is the new 7-up!

Didn't have 'em, never will...

I can't beleieve they didn't blow something up today.

[vinnievin777]

2. Well

As long as Bush is president any news comes at a bad time for us
Vinnie
http://www.vinnievin.com

[rfrrfrrfr]

4. Hmm

I think I heard these things somewhere before... Now let me see where did I hear them? Oh now I remember Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards I believe have been saying just these very things for some time now and been called uninformed or worse for it.

Too bad for the neo-cons/freepers they were telling the truth.

[CarolynEC]

3. A bad time for Bush...

... is a good time for America.

He's done more than enough harm to our country -- time to vote him out!

[cliss]

5. What an ingrate that Bremer is.

Here his crony buddies (aka RumsFailed and Cheney) let L. Paul skim a cool $2 billion (that's billion not million) from the Iraqi oil revenue that's not metered.

Oh, and let's not forget the CPA money which he never accounted for. I might be the only one who remembers that he promised "full accounting" by June of this year. Nothing ever materialized, and he ran out of there faster than Speedy Gonzalez.

Bremer's doing this on purpose. I just can't figure out why.

[Kool Kitty]

6. Mike Malloy was talking about this.

He thinks that the feeling among the Bush scumbags is that it is "every man for himself" time. The boat is taking on water. No one wants to be the fall guy for this mess. I think he may have something there, in regard to Bremer.