Bush: 'I'm Not Making This Up'

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Plaintive president pleads case for war, wiretapping
No doubt reassuring millions of Americans, President Bush yesterday defended his program of legally dubious wiretapping at home and strategically dubious regime change abroad for fighting terrorists by insisting he isn't in la-la land. Terrorists want to use Iraq as a home base, Bush told reporters on Wednesday. He then added:
"I'm not making this up." So now you know: This time it's for real.

Fighting a credibility gap, the president has steadily insisted he needs the National Security Agency domestic wiretap program so as to ferret out information on terrorist plans and empower the government to prevent future attacks. But the kind of power Bush wants amounts to a family coup, carried under the pretense of defending the homeland.
"They attacked us before, they'll attack us again if they can," Bush said in San Antonio over the weekend. "And we're going to do everything we can to stop them." If Bush is to be king, he'd better get his act and that of his courtiers up to par, at least. All the evidence is that the government knew in one case after another well before 9-11 that we were going to be attacked and did nothing about it.

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The Zacarias Moussaoui fiasco is a prime example. In her letter to FBI director Robert Mueller of May 21, 2002, Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis FBI agent who finally blew the whistle on the Bureau, points out the Minneapolis FBI agents figured Moussaoui was a terrorist threat in the summer of 2001.
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Instead, the falling down bore directly on the top officials of the Bureau, including both Mueller and his successor Louis Freeh, who did not act when confronted with clear evidence of a threat. Neither one of them has ever been held accountable for any of this disaster.

http://villagevoice.com/news/0602,ridgeway,71574,2.html

[Turbineguy]

1. "Someone else is making this up

for me"

[CJCRANE]

2. "Honest George" nt

[woodsprite]

3. The boy who cried wolf....

"I'm not making this up." So now you know: This time it's for real.

[Itchinjim]

4. Get ready for MIHOP II......

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. "They attacke us before" head feignt towards the Iraqis, and they

will attack us again, (Now that we have ONCE AGAIN killed tens of thousands of their children, women, kinfolk, aunts, uncles, friends, mothers, fathers, and so forth. When they attack us again (The Iraqis) it will be for the first time gw, remember that. See Jordan bombers for references... Iraqi women involved in suicide bombings.... good job george.

[electropop]

6. Ever notice the whiny tone he gets when he says crap like that?

He sounds like his back is against the wall. He's right.

[opihimoimoi]

7. His BODY LANGUAGE SEZ....... "I AM LYING MY ASS OFF"

[CJCRANE]

8. Probably because his handlers

force him to go out and parrot their spiel, otherwise he doesn't get to play on his bike.