Response from Norm Coleman on DSM issue:

[mzmolly]

Dear Friend :

Thank you for taking the time to contact me concerning a British memo about pre-Iraq war intelligence.

As you may know, on May 1, 2005, the London Sunday Times published a memo written by British foreign policy aide Matthew Rycroft based on notes he had taken during a July 2002 meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair and his advisors. The memo reflected Mr. Rycroft's opinion that the U.S. was intent on removing Saddam Hussein from power and was fixing intelligence around that policy.

Clearly there have been shortcomings in intelligence about Iraq 's prewar capabilities. However, the U.S. was not alone in our assessment about Saddam's weapons programs. Foreign intelligence agencies, including the British and Australian services, as well as the UN, believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction ( WMDs ). UN Security Council Resolution 1441, which passed unanimously in 2002, stated that Iraq posed a threat to international peace and security because of its WMD proliferation.

After Saddam was removed from power, the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) was assigned the task of investigating Saddam's WMD program. The ISG report by Charles Duelfer details Saddam Hussein's attempts to end U.N. sanctions against him while preserving his capacity to reconstitute his WMD programs once the sanctions were lifted.

Saddam Hussein used WMDs against his own people and clearly did not abandon his WMD ambitions. He personally directed efforts to hide and preserve documentation related to Iraq 's nuclear program and prevented Iraqi scientists from leaving Iraq , enabling him to restart his WMD programs. Although stockpiles of WMDs were not found in Iraq, the facts contained in the Duelfer report show that Saddam Hussein maintained the capacity to rebuild his WMD programs in a short amount of time, and that he was actively undercutting the sanctions against him. Given the multiple sources of pre-war intelligence, as well as the findings of the Duelfer Report, there is little evidence to support the Rycroft memo.

In order to address failures with pre-war intelligence, however, I worked closely with my colleagues in the 108 th Congress to construct and pass a comprehensive intelligence reform bill, the National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 (S. 2845) which became public law on December 17, 2004. I also supported Ambassador John Negroponte to be the first Director of National Intelligence for the United States and oversee this major intelligence reorganization.

Thank you once again for contacting me. I value your advice. If I may be of further assistance to you in the future, please do not hesitate to contact me again.

Sincerely,
Norm Coleman
United States Senate

I sent him a windy reply documenting his ignorance, but thought I'd share the new "talking points."

Peace

[Ken Burch]

1. I'd love to see somebody make a movie where

Ben Affleck played Norm Coleman. He could really nail the bastard.

[Moochy]

5. Normy

He sent me an 8x10 picture of Bush and Cheney sneering authoritatively after I sent Norm Coleman a nasty gram. This was regarding his comparison of his own record favorably to the Late Senator Wellstone's.

[CottonBear]

2. Coleman lies like a dog.

"Although stockpiles of WMDs were not found in Iraq, the facts contained in the Duelfer report show that Saddam Hussein maintained the capacity to rebuild his WMD programs in a short amount of time, and that he was actively undercutting the sanctions against him. Given the multiple sources of pre-war intelligence, as well as the findings of the Duelfer Report, there is little evidence to support the Rycroft memo."

:wtf:

[ananda]

3. Would you also, please..

.. share your windy reply.

Thanks,
Sue

[mzmolly]

10. I'll leave my reply up for a short time.

Time has expired, as I likes my privacy. ;)

[cureautismnow]

12. Excellent Response. Call the Lying SOS Out.

You exposed the hypocritical fraud tit-for-tat. Galloway would be proud.
:toast:

[mzmolly]

13. Awe thanks.

:blush:

[Oreo]

4. Slimey weasel

He values your advice as much as he values dental floss.

[Moochy]

7. Evil Al?

He looks like an evil Al Franken!

he just needs a goatee...
(on edit all evil versions have goatees)

[Blue Belle]

21. Uhmmm.... is he wearing lipstick?? n/t

[BurtWorm]

6. That's so annoying when they just go ahead and spin points

that have been discredited. :grr:

[mzmolly]

15. It is. And they all say the same damn thing ... over and over again.

Goebbles would be proud.

I know ... I know another lame assed Nazi reference. ;)

[MnFats]

8. Remember this kind of s*** next year, as well as Coleman's...

...declaration that he is "a 99 percent improvement over Paul Wellstone."

Remember that one? Get pissed off and get rid of him next year. I'm embarrassed that this asshole comes from my state and kicks the corpse of Paul Wellstone, MY senator, every time he shows his face in public...

[Snap]

9. A _uckin_ Xerox machine?

Perhaps Minnesota can scrape this p.o.s. off of their collective heel.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. norm needs to get the hell out of wellstone's seat

what's his popularity like in minnesota? could al franken or someone else take him down?

[MnFats]

16. perhaps my bias is showing but I find Normie eminently beatable...

...you can't chant slogans for six years and expect people to have any enthusiasm for you.
Coleman, flip-flopper supreme, former DLFer now a Bush sycophant.

I think people are fed up with the constant phony smile (isn't there enough smirking going on?) and his endless repetition of talking points handed him by Bush lackeys......

He got his ass shredded by George Galloway in front of his own damn subcommittee...


but....

figure normie will kiss enough ass to have truckloads of cash, legit and otherwise. Moneywill not be a problem for the Normie campaign.
unfortunately it will get very ugly. Norm lusts to keep that seat so he can be on a national ticket in '08.

he is capable of ANYTHING. keep that in mind.

but!
he is a serial adulterer. His fondness for compliant women may be his downfall.....

[MN ChimpH8R]

14. It's hard to determine just how much Coleman sucks

It's one of those unquantifiables like "how high is up?" He is an unprincipled, weaselly and untrustworthy asshat. If there were cannibals in Minnesota, Normy would immediately promise them fat missionaries for dinner. He will say anything if he thinks there's a vote in it.

God I hate that SOB. :nuke:

And that hair gives me nightmares! :puke: :puke:

[Lone_Wolf]

17. Tell him if he honestly believes what he wrote in that letter...

then he's too fucking stupid to represent your state in the Senate. He's a case in point that the chemicals in tooth whiteners are toxic to the brain when used in excess.

[mzmolly]

18. LOL. I've told him a few things over time. I'm sure I'm on the official

"shit list." ;)

[spanone]

19. Norm Coleman is a fart in a hurricane.

[dogday]

20. Senator Why Did You Not Let The Inspectors Do Their Job

Everyone thought that Iraq would deny entry to weapons inspectors but they did not and David Kay was in Iraq when they declared war. Answer that one you stupid ASS!