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You Must Watch the Dark Side! Bush Administration knew Iraq…

Politics – Want to know why we are in Iraq? Want to know what was going on in the minds of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, the rest of the Administration and CIA that lead the United States to Iraq?

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You should mention it's a PBS video from the show Frontline and not just an Internet-produced video.

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Thanks,done!

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More B.S. from the lefties. Is this another Michael Moore styled crockumentory? Anyone can say anything, because there's no jail time for slandering the President. I think everyone should get behind the president and give him the support he needs to solve some very big problems. Chipping away at him only enboldens Americas enemies and this is no more than solicious gossip and we all lose out in the end.

We're in Iraq and hopefully things are starting to turn around. Why not leave it at that and give the President our support.

I find it very interesting that this crockumentory is being released the day after some good news. It smells familiar, like Democratic extremists at work.

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what an idiot..why the hell was i in iraw for 540 days anyways......

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Great video...definitely well documented. Anyone who doesnt like this video is a blind supporter of a criminal who is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, not to mention treason.

Lying us into a war which killed 2500 of our boys and countless innocents in Iraq is the worst crime any President has ever committed in our history.

Bush will go down in history as the WORST President. On the level of that other infamous dictator...

Love your country, question your government!

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Clinton? Again? Get over your obsession. The fact is that he was actively trying to take out bin Laden. Remember when you screamed, "no war for Monica!" ???

40 million dollars to find a blue dress.

good job.

Your voyeuristic investigation gave Osama the cover he needed to carry out 9-11. Congrats, traitors...

nuke tech to NK? Thats a Rush Limbaugh/Faux news lie and you know it...you Rovebot...

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Wait till the next hack has to clean up the mess this hack is going to leave.An endless war,trillion-plus dollars in debt,not to mention every child left behind,illegal aliens that he refers to as "hard working citizens" and amnesty for the businesses that hire them,destroying the Constitution in the name of terrorism,and a "Patriot Act" that anyone with a view that doesn't agree with Chaney-ah-Bush you could be an enemy combatant.Yeah, this clown is the best President.

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in an uncertain world where no candidate is perfect and no party is worthwhile the bottom line is in my opinion, support your president, support our brothers and sisters in the sevice, don't make their sacrifices seem worthless for if the other party succeeds in gaining power don't be foolish by thinking another soldier won't die in the service of their country and don't think those planes were NOT weapons of mass destruction. my economic stability has declined through this administration but i voted him in and have the power to vote him out. sorry for bouncing around.

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Ok, I watched the first part. Typical leftie hack job. Just get a bunch of former disgruntled employees to whine on camera, and then show an ugly picture and play some ominous music when Cheyney and Rumsfeld are mentioned. This could have been produced by a 12year old, and judging by the leftie comments above, that's who the target audience seems to be.

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ever notice the right is either unable or unwilling to adress the issues with a fact based cohesive argument or without insults or pleading why cant we all just get along?

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In order to be a documentary, you need to document some facts not just ramble on ambiguously. All you left nuts love to talk about the money we spent, but our debt keeps getting smaller. Clinton wanted to reduce deficit spending Bush said he would decrease the deficit in half by 2008, but it looks as though he will have accomplished that by the end of 2006. To all you Clinton lovers I say FILE GATE, never did slippery bill explain why he has chinese that were not even allowedin the country, in the white house in a room alone with top secret documents, 85% which contained defense strategy an nuclear plans, that is a fact documented in the national archives, so you losers can suck on that info for awhile.

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The official US policy regarding the war against terrorism specifically spells out that ANY country that actively supports international terrorism will be challenged.

Every American should read the 34 page policy which is available on the internet. It focuses on limiting international funding and organized support for terrorist activities. Its aim is to limit the organization and scope of terrorist capabilities.

UN 682 specifically identifed that Iraq was supposed to NOT fund terrorism based on their 1991 cease fire agreement. But Saddam blatantly kept publicly paying off suicide bombers in Palestine.

If some of the media, and liberals in general, want to continue the charade of promoting 911 as the only reason to confront terrorism, it shows how incompetent any of their leaders are who join them in this misrepresentation of US policy.

Meanwhile, the IAEA has identifed Iraqi nuclear program substances taken to Diego Garcia by the US.

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The official US policy regarding the war against terrorism specifically spells out that ANY country that actively supports international terrorism will be challenged.

Every American should read the 34 page policy which is available on the internet. It focuses on limiting international funding and organized support for terrorist activities. Its aim is to limit the organization and scope of terrorist capabilities.

UN 682 specifically identifed that Iraq was supposed to NOT fund terrorism based on their 1991 cease fire agreement. But Saddam blatantly kept publicly paying off suicide bombers in Palestine.

If some of the media, and liberals in general, want to continue the charade of promoting 911 as the only reason to confront terrorism, it shows how incompetent any of their leaders are who join them in this misrepresentation of US policy.

Meanwhile, the IAEA has identifed Iraqi nuclear program substances taken to Diego Garcia by the US.

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The US scares me. I don't think I wanna live next to them anymore.

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Kenoryn, I assume you're Canadian?

Howard Dean from Vermont scares me too.

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It's sadly amusing to see how easily politicians and partisanship can prompt everyday citizens to become self'proclaimed experts on every subject under the sun, which then, somehow, entitles them to spew hate-filled, belittling, condescending insults at each other.

I guess it keeps us occupied, while our incompetent and apathetic government carries on.....

Meanwhile, I don't hold voters on either side accountable, rather the elected officials who fail them and our country.

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factsonly

i'm sorry to hear about your math skills. if junior decreases the deficit by half it will ba half of a whole that he created. how can you give away all the money to big business cronies, borrow two billion dollars a day and be considered the fiscal responisble? astonishing, once again facts are abandoned for irational clinging to myth and insults. by the way, there's video tape out there that got a whole five seconds of air time with junior saying he doesn't care about the deficit. that's a fact only

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bullshit

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alrightythen

your powers of argument are devestating. i must concede to your citing of information to utterly refute what i have previously known to be true. i stand before you emberrassed to have thought myself capable of thinking for myself, capable of knowing what the current holder of the presidency looks like, capable of understanding the plain english he was using during the response cited above. well done

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The real enemy is showing it's face here by supporting the biggist criminal and traitor in American history...

This moron has ruined the lives of millions of middle class Americans for generations to come and left the country in total disgrace...

All you loyal Bushies who follow this traitor are no better than the brown shirts of Adolf....

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I'd much rather see all you traitors in prison and return my country to a thinking populas of true Americans than a bunch of hate mongering sheep....

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and Romeo there is more terrorism support in Albania than there was in Iraq, via arms and money laundering...not only OBL but also the KLA....Why didn't we invade them...

Oh Yeah, no oil or massive water network for Haliburton to

make billions on...

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this is the biggest bunch of bullshit i've ever seen in my life. i am not an republican or a democrat. i think on my own. and you left winged people are driving me up the wall. one day you'll get your wish and the country will be destroyed just so you can blame bush. because you have nothing better to do with your time... these message boards are full of morons who perpetuate manipulative lies that simply aren't true. move out of the ****** country, we don't want you here anyways. go live in a third world country in some damn hippie commune until your bleeding hearts are content.. oh but wait, you wouldn't survive a day with a REAL communist government, which is what you sheep bleet for all the time. because last time i checked all of you would be at the bottom of the food chain. and your precious Clinton champagne socialists will drive their SUVs while you take public transit that takes you 4 hours to get to your job on time. You guys are morons.

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Emerless...

I believe you have just validated my post...

BAAAAAAH!!!BAAAAAAH!!!!

Talk about manipulative lies and moronic logic...you just hit a home run....

Your post has more of a communistic tone than any I've read here...

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New slogan for the Democrats. "Have you hugged your terriost tody? vote democrat and you can" or how about "Be the worst you can be, vote democrat"

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Please read the captured Iraqi documents that were authored by Suddam and his high level leaders and then say that they had "NOTHING" to do with 9-11. These are the Fox translations of the actual Iraqi language documents. The US government was smart enough to release the actual documents, not altered, filtered, or commented copies!

Oh, yes, I do remember the State dinner where Sadam was handing out the checks for $25,000 US Dollars to the families of suicide bombers and promising to continue and do even more to encourage more destruction of America and her allies. These captured documents show that he was VERY involved in helping toward 9-11.

Let me encourage you to read, listen, research what was really reported in the late 90's and early 2000's; don;t rely on the half truths and outright lies that the current media is trying to force feed us.

The NY Times has condemmed more lose of American lives and less capturing of terrorists and yet still say "they know best".

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Bellasmom...

and your supporting facts are...?

It seems "The Shrubs" refusal to put our military might in use to chase OBL because he doen't want to offend Pakastan as catering to the terrorist...and then putting our country in debt to our closest rival China to go to war with a non-threat catering to terrorist, and creating a larger terror base because of his action, catering to terroist...

More simple minded logic from the traitors within the RNC

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dtress1d...

Please provide the government link to these documents that no other news agency has picked up except FOX...

By the way Sec. Snow provided the same information to NY TIMES rival so they could beat the Times in publishing the story...also, the bank tracking info was common knowledge and previously released by the Bush administration...

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I challenge any liberal on this forum to show me where in the, "National Strategy for Combating Terrorism," that is says that the US could only deal with Iraq if it had a direct association with 9/11.

The fact is, it doesn't say that at all.

Meanwhile, liberals also conveniently forget that Iraq did have a great deal to do with the Al Qaeda bombings of the US embassies in Africa.

http://www.lib.csub.edu/gov/govtref.html

Just click on Terrorism and READ the US policy.

Read it, or just stay stuck on stupid!

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No the NSCt did not state it, it was the PNAC, Cheney's group in 1999....FACT....

Just as the members of the Project for a New American Century stated in their manifesto they needed a new Pearl Harbor in order to get the popular support for their radical agenda and they got that new Pearl Harbor on 9/11/2001. Imagine that; the very men who were in positions to prevent, permit or conduct the attacks of 9/11/2001 were the very people who had their wish granted at the moment the first plane hit the WTC.

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And even though most use Oil as the reason for the invasion, it is only one of the reasons for the invasion...

Water was the biggest reason...

Iraq has the largest river system in the Middle East and there was a plan for a huge pipeline, "The Pease Pipeline" to irrigate the Gulf States and Isreal...

In the '90's during the Iran/Iraq war, Iran tried to take control of Iraqs dams and river control projects, thus comes the gassing of Halabja, which CIA analyst believe was done by Iraq not Saddam...

So obrtuder, do your homework, as well as the rest of you stupid sheep....

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Oh see how they run when they meet a thinking human...

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Maui420L:

Here are just a couple of non "FOX" news releases, that address the release captured Iraqi documents in different ways, with the links to get to them.

Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties

By Scott Wheeler

CNSNews.com Staff Writer

October 04, 2004

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200410\SPE20041004a.html

AN ARMY OF TRANSLATORS NEEDED

BY MICHELLE MALKIN • MARCH 16, 2006 12:19 PM

If you read nothing else today, make sure to go to this site.

There will be a press conference about the documents today at 1:30pm EST:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004782.htm

Washington Monthly

March 17, 2006

THOSE IRAQI DOCUMENTS....Marc Lynch is delighted that the Bush administration is finally releasing captured Iraqi documents,

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_03/008445.php

These and others I found with a search on "Iraqi documents" on a search engine.

Enjoy.

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Offical US Intellegence statement regarding newly found documents...

"U.S. intelligence officials stated that the documents, which had been in their custody prior to their release, have not altered the current intelligence assessment that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda had no operational relationship."

There is no link...there are and were no WMD...

It's oil and water...and of course money...lots of it...

Instead of wasting billions chasing conspiritors we should have been chasing those ACTUALLY involved in 9/11...

LIKE OBL....

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Hello all, I am the originator of this posting. I got to say its amazing how hostile some of you folks are getting. There are even a few of you that posted on my blog itself with such hostility.

What I find amazing is how so many of you are “experts” in this area but I don’t see anyone actually taking the time to critique the PBS video.

For those of you who feel I posted this as some sort of liberal agenda, you could not be more wrong. I am all for protecting this country and our civil liberties. I love the United States of America and believe with all my heart that we are the greatest country in the world.

I also believed in Bush… Twice! I felt the Democratic Party did not have a plan to protect our country and Bush did. A part of me felt this Administration had a solid grip on handling the war on terror.

So how about this documentary and why did I post it? Like I wrote in the blog, it took me a week before posting anything about it and I did not offer a review.

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PBS conducted 16 in-depth interviews and offers all this information plus further analysis on their website for the world to view.

I CHALLENGE YOU

For those of you who are so sure this is leftwing propaganda that has been manufactured for the purpose of misleading the public then I CHALLENGE YOU to find errors with PBS’s research.

Look over the PBS Frontline site, watch the footage and enlighten us (WITH OUT USING ALL CAPS AND CALLING US DUMMIES) with where they are misleading us.

I’ll tell you what, if you are able to “call out” PBS on this story with proper citations and show the world that this video was nothing more then an attempt at liberal propaganda you’ve got yourself one hell of a story! SO ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE 

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I will even publish your rebuttal on my blog for the world to see. But it must be accurate. You must show where they have misled us and what the truth is. I look forward to hearing your feed back.

Feel free to post your thoughts on my blog as well.

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Shandyking:

I have done extensive research over the past 5+ years on "W"'s

and his fathers Iraq policies and PNAC's agenda...

If anyone took the time to research all the data out there regarding these issues, they would be very scared...and not of OBL...

I hope other will see past the well planned scheme to defraud

America and where it is leading us and the rest of the world...

This is not a left/right issue...it is an issue that could have devestating effects on the entire world...

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I see some typos in my posts so please ignore those...

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go bellasmom.....you know whats up

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Maui420L: BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

No1 gives a ****** about Iraq's river system... And by the way when u call people stupid sheep no1 is going to take u serious.. U need to get back on the mainland and see whats really going on.. And don't ****** with bellasmom, girl keeps it real.. I understand u think u are smarter than everyone cuz ur prolly a 4.6 virgin student but that doesnt mean ur rite all the time...... O and by the way ****** France... u zidane and john ****** kerry need to go out to dinner and talk about how stupid you all are...

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democratkiller415 you are a goddamn genious....great response to all that nonsense

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For those of you who yell at liberals as being communists and then telling them to leave this country, you might want to reconsider the term as I am not sure you know what it means. Those that are opposed to what they believe to be fact and voice their opinions to the public are being nothing more then good old fashion Americans.

That my friend’s is democracy!

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ok friend

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Democratkiller415, Andyman1515...

So, obviously facts mean nothing to you, just you little hate mongering belief in lies from a traitor to America...

If you actually read and did research you could actually learn the truth...

yes, just about everyone care about water, especially in the middle-East...it's more important than oil...

And actually, I'm a 50+, two tour vet, with an intelligence background...frigin try and discuss facts with me...I'll bury you...atleast Kerry had the balls to actually go to war, unlike your little chicken Prez...

Since you can't obviously come up with any facts disputing any of my post I see you've used the Ann Coulter method of debate...insults verses facts...

You and your kind ARE the actual threat to America....

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Maui 420L bailed to meet my challenge...

Certainly there is a liberal out there who is up to the challenge.

Or are you all just a bunch of frauds?

I'm waiting!

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Maui 420 L

If you're so knowledgeable and experienced with military intelligence then read the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism and come back with an honest answer.

You bailed on answering my challenge...

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To Maui:

You've got an intel background!? HAHAHA, Sure you do.

Except you claim that Iran/Iraq war happened during the 90's (it was actually the 80's), that Halabja massacre "was done by Iraq not Saddam" (psst Saddam was in charge of Iraq in 88). And nevermind the obscene theory that Israel, which sits between the Mediterranean sea and the Jordan river, would want it's water pumped from the middle of Iraq. If you're in intel, what's your real name? Joe Wilson?

P.S. Calling people "little hatemongering traitors" and then whining about personal insults. That's just pathetic.

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I am going to say the something I always do, if everyone is so unhappy with Bush's cabinet and their approach to problems, give them a better solution. Everyone complains, but no one stepping up with something better. I don’t agree with the president 50% of the time, but he must have done something right somewhere because he is there and we are all on a message board. Just hope that the next guy that gets in there can clean up whatever is left.

And those who are still on the Kerry wagon get off!! He might be running again next election and instead of focusing on the one he didn’t win, how about boosting his image so that he has a shoot again. It is not going to be a Bush vs. Kerry election again, so the comparison between the two is just wasting time.

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Obtruder,

Bailed...?

did you not read the post...PNAC=Dick Cheney and the Bush cronies who wrote the PNAC Manifesto...that is where the quote comes from...not the NSCT you are saying liberals are using...

Bush Sr., Cheney, Rummey and all the usual players have been trying to get a foot hold in Iraq for decades...the PNAC is their plan, clearly laid out...

Intellegence community knows whoever controls Iraq, controls vast assets which determin the fate of most of the region...

And to all the other Bushies who think water is unimportant, Iraq has the largest river network in the Middle-East...and water is the next world crisis after oil and ahead of global warming in terms of immediate threats to the world at large...

The Iraqi theater is as stratigic as Pearl Harbor is to control the Pacific theater....

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