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The declassified PDB is now available....

Apr 10, 2004 10:36AM PDT

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So what now ?
Apr 10, 2004 11:07AM PDT

So Konkel's friends went fishing, and came up empty.

So now what ? They'll argue for the next many months
that this document wasn't historic and that Dr Rice misled them ?

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Don't think fishing, think circus...
Apr 10, 2004 3:00PM PDT

Don't think of fishing, think of a 3-ring circus. The Democrats want your attention focused exclussively to the center floodlit ring, on which is appearing the 9/11 hearing.
The goal is to deflect attention from the other rings, in which John Kerry's military record or John Kerry's VVAW activities sit "waiting to go on". The name of the game is to deflect attention away from Kerry's questionable activities. It's like the magician who uses an assistant in a skimpy costume, the idea is for the audience to look at that and miss the actions of the magican/(candidate).

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The "War pResident"...
Apr 10, 2004 5:45PM PDT
The name of the game is to deflect attention away from Kerry's questionable activities. It's like the magician who uses an assistant in a skimpy costume, the idea is for the audience to look at that and miss the actions of the magican/(candidate). - J. Vega

This sounds more like a technique that GW has used successfully several times during the past 3 years. Maybe that's why you and many of GW's apologists seem to be experts on the tactic. King George has trained you well...

BTW, have you seen the latest polls? It seems as if the majority of the American public aren't being fooled by GW's constant and endless lies anymore. Even though GW has spent over $40 million of his campaign war-chest in the past few weeks, his poll results have dropped by over 5% points. The more GW spends, the worse things get for him. Americans are waking up and they don't like what they see in the "War pResident"...
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Re:The declassified PDB is now available....
Apr 10, 2004 11:08AM PDT

You mean the PDB that former Democrat senator Bob Kerrey illegally declassified by reading from it during Condeleeza Rice's appearance before the Inquisition, er, 9/11 Commission last Thursday? That one? <sarcasm> Wonder what would happened had I done a similar thing while still wearing Air Force Blue? </sarcasm>

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Re: The declassified PDB is now available.... Question, Clay.
Apr 10, 2004 11:23PM PDT

If you were asked to characterize that briefing in one word, would that word be "historical?" "Historic," maybe -- but the opportunity was missed... As was this one:
Cole attack probe nearly unraveled 9/11 plot. With all the reports tripping over themselves to come out, Condy's claim that "shaking the trees" would have been futile is sounding more and more like exactly what it is -- a poor excuse for a poor job.

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