Dick Durbin says Iraq report bogus, falsified

[NNN0LHI]

http://alaskareport.com/news907/z46646_durbin_iraq.htm

September 7, 2007

Washington, DC - Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, is accusing the Bush administration of manipulating negative information in its highly anticipated Iraq (Petraeus) report that will be released next week. snip

"Some of them I correspond with almost on a daily basis. And when they sent a discouraging report about things that were happening in Baghdad, they were reminded by their superiors that's unacceptable; we need a positive report. They were sent back for editing changes. Now that's a fact," Durbin said.

[KittyWampus]

1. Senate Dems need to find some real patriots who will testify the numbers and info are fake

Althoght the Media will absolutely report this as a legitimate debate. As if NeoCons have a valid point.

[rosesaylavee]

2. Wow. Buried in the Alaska paper?

Hopefully this will be reported elsewhere too.

[radfringe]

3. of course it's bogus - look who wrote it

it wasn't patreaus, it wasn't other commanders on the ground, it wasn't independent evaluators - it was written by the bushies and probably written last year with dates left blank

[spanone]

4. the persistent lies of the bu$h* administration....and people are dying by the thousands. criminal

[EFerrari]

5. We have to stop calling this a "post 9/11" world

instead of a "post Bush Administration" world because this so called people have killed more people than bin Laden ever could. And they're not finished yet.

[spanone]

6. Why isn't this the headline in the New York Times?????

[rosesaylavee]

8. Checked Google News - this is ONLY carried by this Alaska outlet n/t

[rosesaylavee]

7. And he says this in another story this morning

Since September 2001, Congress has provided $602 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with about 70 percent of that going to Iraq. The most recent funding bill, approved by Congress in May, took months to pass. Bush vetoed the first version after Democrats attached a withdrawal timeline.

Although he was one of 23 senators who voted against the use of force in Iraq in 2002, Durbin said he was increasingly troubled by his votes to pay for military operations there.

"Now I just realized I can't do this. It's perpetuating a policy that is taking more American lives. We have to wind this war down," Durbin said, adding he would not use his leadership post to demand other Democrats follow his lead.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0718709320070907

Good.