Thursday, October 05, 2006

 

America Held Hostage con't

58% of Americans now believe that the Bush administration deliberately misled the public about the Iraq war.

Check this post at Mahablog which runs down the entire Condi Rice was-she-or-wasn't-she-briefed thing. Yes, she was. And as it turns out, Time Magazine reported on the meeting in 2002. The post also has information on how George Tenet stopped flying domestic commercial flights in July, 2001.

Colin Powell, from a speech yesterday:
In Iraq, "staying the course isn't good enough because a course has to have an end," Powell said.
Mark Foley - calling him scum is unfair to scum.
Former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) interrupted a vote on the floor of the House in 2003 to engage in Internet sex with a high school student who had served as a congressional page, according to new Internet instant messages provided to ABC News by former pages.
And what about all the Republicans who knew about this sad, sick man and protected him? Here:

In another stunning development, Robert Novak today reveals in his column - published in PostOpinion on Page 31 - that even after House GOP leaders knew that Foley had written an inappropriate e-mail to a 16-year-old former male page, they were still urging him to seek re-election.

Novak writes, "A member of the House leadership told me that Foley, under continuous political pressure because of his sexual orientation, was considering not seeking a seventh term this year but that Rep. Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), talked him into running."

Well, look here, Foley bought their protection. Republicans always put money ahead of morals.

An MSNBC segment examines if Rep. Foley made a large contribution to the Republican Party in exchange for silence about sexual messages that Foley sent to House pages. Foley gave $100,000 to the GOP Campaign Committee in July. The large contribution came at same time when Republican House leadership ignored Foley's emails.

# posted by Spike @ 10/05/2006 01:50:00 AM
Comments:
Its amazing how the American media works. We have lost fifteen more American service people over the last couple days, and what is getting attention? Its just another sex scandal. And it wasn't even real sex.

Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley's instant message records indicate he is a dude who gets off on fantasy cyber sex with teenaged boys. I believe this is the first virtual sex scandal in Washington DC political history.

Back here in the real world, American men and women are killed, maimed and scarred, both physically and emotionally every day. War is hell. Finally, the mainstream media is beginning to support our troops by speaking the truth about their sacrifices. more
# posted by Blogger REB 84 : 10/05/2006 1:20 PM
 
Thanks Reb. I agree with what you say (and have just taken a look at your blogs, they're terrific, everyone else, please check them out!) but the thing is, the Foley bit becomes more than just a sex scandal because of how Republican leadership abandoned their duty to America to protect and even encourage this person. And now they're even trying to blame it on the Democrats. Two phrases that do not exist within the Republican language are "it's my fault" and "i'm sorry".
# posted by Blogger Spike : 10/05/2006 2:25 PM
 
I say throw all of the Republicans into the water. If they sink, and drown they are innocent. If they float, then they are witches. One once turned my into a newt.
# posted by Blogger Glenzo : 10/07/2006 12:15 PM
 
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