Matthews on MSNBC:

[PCIntern]

Getting the WMD info wrong not done 'deliberately', nobody would think THAT!. Schmuck from newsweek agrees with him...

What planet are these people living on?

The Big Lie contines...

[hippiechick]

1. Ok, well if it wasn't a LIE, then it was massive incompetence ...

... in which case the entire misAdministration should be impeached for not knowing shit from shinola.

[Hissyspit]

2. Of course it was deliberate!

Haven't these idiots got it YET???

You can't believe a WORD anybody in this administration says!

[WI_DEM]

3. Speak for yourself, Tweety

[EFerrari]

4. How long is he going to continue to read Rove's faxes? n/t

[rodeodance]

5. that is not what I heard. Matthews thinks they did get it wrong and

perhaps deliberately. but he speaks fast and i have it on in the background.

[peekaloo]

14. He must be slobbering again.

:eyes:

[librechik]

6. I know, I wanted to smack him!

and he rat tat tatted all the Republican talking points in a very narrative form, and then acted like that was the truth!

[Punkingal]

7. I heard that...

They have to continue to give these criminals the benefit of the doubt. It is disgusting.

[ananda]

8. Tweety really gets a hardon over Bush's power...

Mathews is simply in love with power, and with the power of the press to confer power on the president and his office, even when Bush and his admin are acting like keystone cops or hardline cowboys trying to deal with the evildoers in Iraq.

He actually wants to see Bush pardon Libby because Cheney owes so much to Libby... and you know... they're all so pucking fowerful! lol

Sue

[KharmaTrain]

9. Tweety Compromises Himself Every Time That Pie Hole Opens

Until he comes clean with what he was told by Rove and others, he holds no credibility to analyize this topic. He's part of this crime, not some innocent bystander.

He, Mrs. Greenspan and Timmy Russert owe us a complete explanation of their relationships with the principals in this case and how they could keep quiet for all these years knowing who leaked Plame's name. They had no binds to Fitzgerald or the Grand Jury...they could have spoken out last year.

Meantime, the lies and misinformation continues. I swear David Brock and his team at Media Matters must be going nuts.

[underpants]

10. Who Isikoff? HA! Check out Isikoff's latest BREAKING news (from yesterday)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9831216/site/newsweek/

Fabricated Links?
A CIA report casts new doubt on links between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Plus, tensions between FBI Director Bob Mueller and his predecessor, Louis Freeh.


Updated: 7:07 p.m. ET Oct. 26, 2005
Oct. 26, 2005 - A secret draft CIA report raises new questions about a principal argument used by the Bush administration to justify the war in Iraq: the claim that Saddam Hussein was "harboring" notorious terror leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi prior to the American invasion.

The allegation that Zarqawi had visited Baghdad in May 2002 with Saddam's sanction—purportedly for medical treatment—was once a centerpiece of the administration's arguments about Iraq. Secretary of State Colin Powell cited Zarqawi's alleged visit in his speech to the United Nations Security Council. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld referred obliquely to Zarqawi's purported trip as an example of "bulletproof" evidence that the administration had assembled linking Saddam's regime with Al Qaeda.

But like the uranium yellowcake claims—since determined to be fraudulent—that are at the heart of the CIA leak case, the administration's original allegations about Zarqawi's trip also seem to be melting away. An updated CIA re-examination of the issue recently concluded that Saddam's regime may not have given Zarqawi "safe haven" after all.

The CIA declined to comment on the draft report. But officials tell NEWSWEEK that Zarqawi probably did travel to the Iraqi capital in the spring of 2002 for medical treatment. And, of course, there is no question that he is in Iraq now—orchestrating many of the deadly suicide bombings and attacks on American soldiers.

But before the American-led invasion, Saddam's government may never have known he was there. The reason: he used an alias and was there under what one U.S. intelligence official calls a "false cover." No evidence has been found showing senior Iraqi officials were even aware of his presence, according to two counterterrorism analysts familiar with the classified CIA study who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.

An intelligence official told NEWSWEEK that the current draft says that "most evidence suggests Saddam Hussein did not provide Zarqawi safe haven before the war. It also recognizes that there are still unanswered questions and gaps in knowledge about the relationship."

[highplainsdem]

11. Did Tweety say anything about *'s "nobility" today?

He's used that word to describe Bush twice in the past week. I read about the first occasion here, heard Tweety use the word again a day or two later (though he admitted then that he'd been criticized for applying that word to Bush). The first time he talked about *'s "sunny nobility." He didn't use the word "sunny" the next time.

[sproutster]

12. CNN: After 9/11 we chose to believe worst case senarios

If Saddam *might* have WMD's, Saddam DOES have WMD's.

[lovuian]

13. Ok InCompetence is not an excuse!!! In the Law your Liable

Chris!!! Get a Grip!!!

[PCIntern]

15. If you ever get a minute....

go to one of the Kennedy Assasination sites and stream the live NBC coverage from that day. Real reporters, real reporting...and then realize that everything they said that day was a plant and a lie. nothing ever changes...

[Jacobin]

16. Hey, they accidentally forged the Niger documents

It can happen to anyone. You stumble over a chair and before you know it your word processer has typed and printed a passable forgery, you look at it, think its looks real and run with it.

Hey, happens to me at least once a month.

/s

[berni_mccoy]

17. CMON! These people still haven't woken up!

America must still be groggy... when will she be fully awake and aware that we were duped into the war?