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Do you require the truth before November 2nd?

Feb 9, 2004 9:11PM PST

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Re:Do you require the truth before November 2nd?
Feb 9, 2004 10:17PM PST

I have yet to see a committee that came up with the truth in 9 months. Have You?

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Is this the latest message from the Democratic National Committee?
Feb 10, 2004 1:03AM PST

The LAST, WORST idea is to politicize the intelligence community. If there is a problem, it should be found and corrected. The analysis should not be distorted by political considerations.

Why BEFORE the elections. Are we going to vote on improvements to the intelligence process? BTW, there are a few little problems with the petition. The Congress is unlikely to do it if President Bush opposes this approach, the President has already announced that he will appoint a panel, and the executive is not obligated to provide that kind of information to Congress.

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No, it is not
Feb 10, 2004 1:58AM PST

Why before the elections? Suppose, just suppose, that the investigation were to reveal that the Administration received accurate intel and "sexed it up" in order to justify the invasion. Wouldn't you want to know that before casting your vote in November?

My personal opinion is that the investigators should not be on a deadline that might force them to be hasty in drawing their conclusions, but I'd prefer to hear from them before the election.

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That's exactly why it can't be done.
Feb 10, 2004 5:12AM PST

Democrats like Kennedy and Schummer are going to claim that the evidence shows precisely that whether it does or not. Republicans are going to claim the opposite. We won't know what is true, and neither will anyone else. As a result, nothing will come from it; no improvement, no increased funding, nothing.

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Re:That's exactly why it can't be done.
Feb 10, 2004 5:20AM PST

Kennedy and Schumer aren't on the investigating team, are they?

You're undoubtedly right that people on both sides of the aisle will try to spin the results.

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What are you going to say or do when;
Feb 10, 2004 10:26AM PST

the people say they really don't care about the semantics of the thing since they felt getting rid of Saddam's regime was a good move? They have the chance to say that this November, and the one regret is that each election ballot doesn't have a place on it to write in WHY I decided to vote for someone. When Bush is re-elected will you accept their rejection of this WMD election year backstabbing witch hunt? Or will you fail to realize the people have said they approve of what he did?

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Re:What are you going to say or do when;
Feb 10, 2004 10:29PM PST
...people say they really don't care about the semantics of the thing since they felt getting rid of Saddam's regime was a good move?

What will I say? I'll say those people voted for the right guy.
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Re:Do you require the truth before November 2nd?
Feb 10, 2004 4:25AM PST

Bush's cowardly attempt at a whitewash of this issue has no chance of revealing the true failures even if they were give 10 years to investigate.

Dan

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As I said, straight from the DNC. (NT)
Feb 10, 2004 5:13AM PST

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The proverbial smoking gun? The Conspiracy theory? (nt)
Feb 10, 2004 10:31AM PST

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