Claim Bush came to office plotting Iraq war "flat wrong": Rice

[rodeodance]

Claim Bush came to office plotting Iraq war "flat wrong": Rice

Sun Apr 29, 4:42 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice rejected as "flat wrong" on Sunday assertions by former
CIA director George Tenet that George W. Bush came into office already plotting to invade
Iraq and overthrow
Saddam Hussein.


"In the entire period after the president became president, he was trying to put together and international coalition that could deal with Iraq," Rice said in an interview on CNN.

She said Bush tried a range of options to counter the perceived threat posed by Saddam, from "smart sanctions" to tougher no fly zones and challenging the Iraqi leader before the UN Security Council.

"This was a period of more than a year and a half of trying to find other ways to deal with the threat of Saddam Hussein," she said.

"The idea that the president had made up his mind when he came to office that he was going to go to war against Iraq is just flat wrong," she said.........


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070429/ts_alt_afp/usiraqintelligence_070429204132;_ylt=AtXlkVHgPI.ITL2VkIMLmQzMWM0F

I wish there were a campaign to boot her OUT!

[HereSince1628]

1. Well, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the Neocon entourage

certainly did. But Bush has no accountability for deciding on including that lot in the Cheney administration, because, afterall, Cheney, rather than Bush, is the guy in charge.

[rfranklin]

2. There was no threat from Saddam Hussein...bullshit!

They coveted that oil and domination of the Middle East. Jeb Bush was among the PNAC plotters who in 1992 outlined the plan for 9/11 (our Pearl Harbor) and the consequent invasion of Iraq.

[ewagner]

3. Saw that on tape this morning

Right after she said the words, "..flat wrong"...her eyes went immediately to the desk...she couldn't look the moderator in the eye ...or, for that matter, the camera.

If she was a poker player her "tells" would wipe her out in five minutes flat.

[lapfog_1]

4. Yup...

down and to the left... always a lie.

[sarge43]

9. I'm surprised she still knows the difference between truth and lies. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

5. Condi has zero credibility

why would anyone believe this flak?

[wtmusic]

6. To the Hague with them all

and none too soon.

[sarge43]

7. And just what threat did Saddam pose?

Condi honey, regardless of what Herr Reichsminister Goebbels said, repeating a lie doesn't make it morph into truth.

[SOS]

8. Paul O'Neill vs. Condi

Condi's assertions are directly contradicted by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill:

"What happened at President Bush's very first National Security Council meeting is one of O'Neill's most startling revelations.

“From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go,” says O’Neill, who adds that going after Saddam was topic "A" 10 days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11.

“From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about what we can do to change this regime,” says Suskind. “Day one, these things were laid and sealed.”

"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this,’" says O’Neill. “For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap.”

He got briefing materials under this cover sheet. “There are memos. One of them marked, secret, says, ‘Plan for post-Saddam Iraq,’" adds Suskind, who says that they discussed an occupation of Iraq in January and February of 2001."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml

[Contrary1]

10. I tend to believe her on this one...

Bush is a clueless idiot. I doubt that he had any plans for anything when he moved into the White House,
other than smirking at Daddy every chance he got.

[Star80]

11. Bush 2002:"...F--- Saddam. We're taking him out..." CONDI BLATANTLY LIED AGAIN!!!

From CNN:

How did the U.S. end up taking on Saddam? The inside story of how Iraq jumped to the top of Bush's agenda -- and why the outcome there may foreshadow a different world order

"F___ Saddam. we're taking him out." Those were the words of President George W. Bush, who had poked his head into the office of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

It was March 2002, and Rice was meeting with three U.S. Senators, discussing how to deal with Iraq through the United Nations, or perhaps in a coalition with America's Middle East allies. Bush wasn't interested. He waved his hand dismissively, recalls a participant, and neatly summed up his Iraq policy in that short phrase.

The Senators laughed uncomfortably; Rice flashed a knowing smile. The President left the room. A year later, Bush's outburst has been translated into action, as cruise missiles and smart bombs slam into Baghdad.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/24/timep.saddam.tm/

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Condoleeza, you have lied to the American people and Congress for the last time! Eat (and choke on) this URL, you lying hypocritical fascist-enabling sub-human BITCH! Your lies are as ugly as your nose, and as black as your husband's..I mean the president's heart!