Time for a Checkmate

[sfecap]

Time for a Checkmate
October 08, 2004


The pieces are arranged on the board in precise position for a checkmate tonight. Kerry is studying the board. Can he see the moves in time?

Let’s start with “fictionalized.” Yesterday, after the CIA report saying that Iraq had no WMDs and no plans to make WMDs, Kerry accused Bush of having “aggrandized and fictionalized” the Iraqi threat. Now, in my book, “fictionalized” means that Bush made it up. That goes to the heart of my work, and that of many others, on the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, the Feith-based intelligence unit that “fictionalized” intelligence about Iraq.

Then Bush said: “He accused me of deception. He’s claiming I misled America about weapons, when he himself cited the very same intelligence.”

That leaves Kerry no option but make his only countermove: Yes, I looked at the very same intelligence. The intelligence you faked. Fictionalized. Manufactured. Mr. President, you lied to the American people about why we needed to invade Iraq.

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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/time_for_a_checkmate.php

[sui generis]

1. THANK YOU

yes indeed, Kerry needs to smackdown and use the word "lie".

The difference is that Kerry didn't have the opportunity to cherry pick among reports - what Kerry saw was what PNAC wanted him to see, in all its made up glory.

I sure hope he doesn't pull any punches tonight. I want to see dumbya's jaw drop.

[George_S]

2. All he has to do is quote himself:

"If we go it alone without reason, we risk inflaming an entire region, breeding a new generation of terrorists, a new cadre of anti-American zealots, and we will be less secure, not more secure, at the end of the day, even with Saddam Hussein disarmed.

"Every nation has the right to act preemptively, if it faces an imminent and grave threat, for its self-defense under the standards of law. The threat we face today with Iraq does not meet that test yet. I emphasize "yet." But it is not imminent, and no one in the CIA, no intelligence briefing we have had suggests it is imminent. None of our intelligence reports suggest that he is about to launch an attack.

"The argument for going to war against Iraq ... is not rooted in the doctrine of preemption. Nor is the grant of authority in this resolution an acknowledgment that Congress accepts or agrees with the President's new strategic doctrine of preemption. Just the opposite."

Checkmate.

[sundancekid]

4. is this from Kerry's Senate floor comments??? Link, by any chance??

These are terrific quotes ... and these sentiments are the absolute proper foundation for the "fictionalized" intelligence segue ...

[George_S]

5. Kerry Iraq Resolution Link

Kerry's speech begins at 30:00 minutes into it. The relevant quoted section begins about 1:00 hour into it.

It is a real media file.

The C-Span page is here...

http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=Kerry+Iraq+Resolution&image1.x=0&image1.y=0&image1=Submit

[MatrixEscape]

3. Sorry for the lowered expectations!

I can't think of the chess analogy when I think of Bush. Maybe I am falling for his deceptive dumbass routine? ;)

I think more in the line of checkers as if they had a toss to see who gets to pick the game and Bush won.

In that case, its a strategy more like: jump, take, jump, take, jump take, King me!