Scott McClellan's clever Downing Street argument

[Cocoa]

he's got a point. Downing Street isn't even in the U.S., so get off our backs.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050620-20.html#O

Q All right, Scott. At their joint news conference, both President Bush and Prime Minister Blair denied the major assumptions out of the so-called Downing Street memo. We've had other revelations, I guess, since then. But is the President wondering how the intelligence operatives and diplomatic operatives of the key ally in this mission came to these assumptions, came to these conclusions? Isn't he wondering how this happened?

MR. McCLELLAN: I think Prime Minister Blair addressed this very issue. They were memos relating to the United Kingdom and he addressed the issue in a news conference.

[eleny]

1. That's the weakest argument yet!

Talk about grabbing at straws!

[kittenpants]

14. I don't think you can even call it an "argument."

It's more like a non-sequiter.

[eleny]

15. Thanks! You hit the nail on the head!

[BayouBengal07]

2. Yeah...

But they're about US.

the problem is that it reads like its opinions.

[KamaAina]

3. I can see it now: "Iraq isn't in the U.S."

...so get off our backs.

Then, the following week:

"La, la, I can't HEAR you!!!"

Morans.

[madmark]

4. What is the need for logic when one already has power

[marmar]

5. Stupid Scotty...

can't even be evasive with panache. What a troglodyte! You can't be completely dumb and completely bland - you need to be one or the other to pull off that job.

[Straight Shooter]

6. It isn't clever. It's duplicitous. It stinks of Rove all over.

How many spins of this DSM bottle are they going to give it?

[wurzel]

7. Those memos were not an internal domestic British matter.

The memos were about the relationship between two countries intending to invade a third. McClellan's position is absurd.

[Spazito]

8. LOL, Snotty Scotty never fails to amuse me...

The memos are ALL about the bush cabal's position on the run-up to the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and what lies they would have to tell to sell it.

The one thing I can say about him, if he says one thing you can be totally ASSURED the opposite is true.

[Career Prole]

9. Since the leak exposes a violation of international law involving

several nations, I don't believe it matters a bit which country the leak came from.

As usual, Scotty's full of shit.

[jimshoes]

10. That answer addressed

nothing that was asked in the question. What the fuck Scottie?

[uppityperson]

11. He already answered that earlier.

:sarcasm:

[Oversea Visitor]

12. Its a UK Memo

No No dont look at the words just the facts its a UK Memo.

Now everyone stand in line and sings

Its a UK Memo, please sing it loud sing it clear...... gee there goes the MSM choir.

[Old and In the Way]

13. Well, lets open up those secret energy meetings and see what Dick

was talking about. The reason we have to rely on foreign sources of information is that the criminals who orchestrated this war are keeping the public in the dark.