On CNN, just now, Novak basically said that Iraq needed a dictator.

[Fridays Child]

He was listing his reason for having been against the war from the beginning. He said he was sure that there were no WMDs and he believed that Iraq could be governed only by a dictator like Saddam.

ETA: He's peddling a book he just wrote. It's titled, The Prince of Darkness but I'm not sure why. I lost my TV signal, right after his comment about Saddam. It's stormy here.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

1. Novak was against the war from the beginning?

Where is that WTF icon.... here it is! :wtf: But I think this silly one is more apt, :silly:

[Fridays Child]

6. So he says.

I have a hard time with that one, too. Maybe he means that, off the record, he was against it. But that would show him for the world class whore that he is, wouldn't it? Besides, for being, anti-war, he sure has carried a hell of a lot of Bush administration water on the issue.

[Igel]

21. Try this column.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2003/02/10/the_american_imperium
"This imperial mission has staunch proponents inside the Bush administration, definitely not including Secretary of State Powell. Worried Republicans in Congress and outside government question U.S. capability to bear so heavy a burden. The nation-building exercise in Afghanistan is faltering, and the task of dealing with North Korea while mobilizing against Iraq strains the government's capacity. ... In quest of national greatness at home and of a Middle East that is safe for America and Israel, George W. Bush faces a daunting task. While disdaining nation building, he is embarking on empire building." The tone is not rah-rah.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2003/03/06/playing_texas_poker
'"This is Texas Poker, with the president putting everything on Iraq," a Republican senator (who thoroughly approves of this policy) told me. The extraordinary gamble by President Bush leads to deepening apprehension by Republican politicians as they wait for the inevitable war. They consider the Democratic Party divided, drifting to the left and devoid of new ideas. Yet, Bush's re-election next year is threatened by two issues: the economy and the war on terrorism. Success on both is tied to war with Iraq.' Again, not rah-rah. Worried for his party.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2003/03/17/cheneys_war_talk
Nearly a month after that admonition, the vice president is suggesting privately that going to war with Iraq is essentially a U.S. venture with the quest for U.N. sanctioning merely a means of securing Britain as a junior military partner. That reflects Bush administration officials who argue that the United States, as the last surviving superpower, must act on its own to shape the world. Colin Powell has fought that mindset, but his statement Thursday about removing Saddam Hussein without U.N. authorization was an implicit admission that Cheney is in the driver's seat.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2003/03/20/breaking_up_iraq
(worries about Turkish/Iranian aspirations)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2003/03/27/no_cakewalk
"There were some who were supportive of going to war with Iraq who described it as a cakewalk," Tim Russert told Donald Rumsfeld on NBC's "Meet the Press" last Sunday. The secretary of Defense seemed surprised. "I never did," he replied. "No one I know in the Pentagon ever did." While Rumsfeld spoke the literal truth, his response was still disingenuous. ... Yet, civilian and military sources high in the government now believe coalition forces, short on manpower, must rely on air power to win the battle of Baghdad. Clearly, it is no cakewalk.



It's one thing to be against having gone into Iraq--Novak certainly falls in that group, he's no neo-con (the word for him is paleo-con). But the question of going in or not is one matter, that of what to do once there is another. There he's more like *.

[unpossibles]

2. he then said, "hey, it works for America." n/t

[AtomicKitten]

3. Funny, I could have sworn we just hanged their dictator.

The Douchebag of Liberty should climb back under his rock.

[PA Democrat]

4. "Operation Iraqi New Dictator" ?

Not a very catchy slogan for a war.

[Fridays Child]

5. But an honest one.

[dkofos]

7. That might be the only truthful thing that douch-bag has ever said!!

[Fridays Child]

8. And Wolfie ignored it completely.

Nary a peep. Not even a "huh." Nothing.

[dkofos]

15. I sometimes think wolfie only listens to himself during an interview.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

17. Wolfie does love the sound of his voice.

I'm still pissed over the coverage he did on the naming of a new Pope. Talked himself Stoopid during the ringing of those bells. Never did hear the bells, just wolfies overbearing idiot voice.
dipshit.

[Fridays Child]

18. I'm willing to bet that his voice was the model for Officer Barbrady's, on South Park.

[Supersedeas]

16. Leslie does not get paid to confront NeoCons

[BlooInBloo]

9. Repubicans think EVERYONE needs a dictator.

[Fridays Child]

10. And, from time to time, the truth accidentally escapes from their fetid mouths.

[BlooInBloo]

11. Proof that the truth will not be held down indefinitely? I think so.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

12. Totally Off Topic, But Ya Just Reminded Me Of Something.

I saw a non-political bumpersticker on a car in the parking lot at work, as I was leaving for the day. It said "Medical Transcriptionists work for Dictators".

Don't know why, but I found it incredibly witty and amusing. Just wanted to share for no reason whatsoever LOL

[Swamp Rat]

13. LOL!

[partylessinOhio]

14. That ugly little dwarf has gone insane! He is a liar.

He is/was all entangled with Bush and Company.

Saddam was a better man than Novak could ever be. We had no right to invade that country and kill their President. But Novak does not deserve to make light of the invasion and hideous war we continue to conduct.

[MODemocrat]

19. Bush or Cheney should apply for the job of Dictator of Iraq

They're trying to change our government to a Dictatorship, and they are coming along pretty
well with it.They do whatever they please, and whenever they wish to do it.It seems we're too busy stabbingeach other in the back to worry about them.
;( :mad:

[Fridays Child]

20. On re-run, I caught his comments verbatim...

I didn't have my own intelligence agency but just talking to the inspectors and people who had been on the spot, I was SURE, I was positive, he didn't have any weapons of mass destruction. And I also knew, from my reporting, that this was, these were people who were very difficult and it'd be very difficult to govern that country without a dictator like Saddam Hussein.