White house to "hit back" at dems....

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/08/Bush.retaliates/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Top White House officials say they're developing a "campaign-style" strategy in response to increasing Democratic allegations that the Bush administration twisted intelligence to make its case for war.

White House aides, who agreed to speak to CNN only on the condition of anonymity, said they hoped to increase what they called their "hit back" in coming days.

sure everybody had the same faulty intel.

but it was bush who took us to war over it.

Bush sent weapons inspectors out because he didn't want to know the truth.

Clinton asked the inspectors to leave in '98 because he wanted to play big bad guy and illegally bomb Iraq over technicalities. Because the inspectors left we never got a clear picture of what happened after '98.

the public psyche has already shifted. Most americans believe we went to war on false pretences - and that at least some "spin" was used to sell us; however a lot of folks aren't sure how intentional or malignent was the reason - a lot of folks can not accept that their govt would do such a thing.... however, a transparent nasty campaign will push the public sentiment over the brink as it will do the opposite as hoped by the WH - it will demonstrate the degree to which the WH will go to decieve the people and will push some of the folks over from we went with wrong infor but they must not have known better (the bad intel excuse) to... "Those B*st*rds!"

They can't seem to realize that the political reality on the ground has so drastically shifted - and what used to work for them now does them great damage.

My guess - they do one or two attempts at "hit back" - it backfires somewhat - and they pull back before they commit more self-damage.

...come up with such a strategy yet.

Any poorly-acted movie villain can scream, "This isn't over!"

Punks.

Yup, leave it to these sociopathic scum to keep piling on even MORE of what's pissing everyone off to begin with. It's an amazing bit of group psychosis we're witnessing.

:hi:

Haven't seen you around in while! Good to see you!

They used "hit back" against Joe Wilson, and look where it got them.

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.....Republicans on Capitol Hill who have criticized the White House for failing to coordinate responses to a host of issues say Bush aides are working noticeably harder to set up meetings and conference calls to arrange a widespread response.

Aside from regular White House briefings, it is unclear which administration officials will participate in this "aggressive" response, which senior officials indicate will be unveiled in interviews and other public events.

It also is uncertain how much the president will be involved in the information campaign aside from "responding appropriately when asked," a third senior official said.

One senior official said Cheney would not participate in the White House response, despite that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, has accused the vice president of being a key offender in manipulating intelligence. (Read about Democrats closing the Senate to push the war probe)

.It also is uncertain how much the president will be involved in the information campaign aside from "responding appropriately when asked," a third senior official said.

.One senior official said Cheney would not participate in the White House response, despite that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, has accused the vice president of being a key offender in manipulating intelligence. (Read about Democrats closing the Senate to push the war probe)

I'd offer the VP the podium to refute the charges. Cheney is after all the head of the Senate (as VP). What are you afraid of Dick, can't you come out of you're undisclosed location and stick up for yourself? I'm not holding my breath because attacking your enemy's wife tells me a lot about the type of person you really are.

nt

What a bunch of slimeballs.

...many of them supplied by Rummy himself!

Nonetheless, it's good to be careful of cornered dogs and other such animals because they can do a lot of damage on their way down.

Hekate

This administration is going to do what they always do. What they excel at!

Making sound policy? No!

Solving problems? No!

Governing with integrity? No!

They are going to try to solve their problems with Public Relations and spin. Because it is the only thing they do well, it is their default action no matter what the situation.

But guess what? The American public is tired of promises and excuses. Where are the flowers and candy? Where is the "matter of weeks"? Where are the huge benefits we were supposed to gain for the huge and costly effort of deposing a tin-pot dictator?

Think about your past. How many times has a friend let you down and then regained their esteem in your eyes? Bush had the confidence of the American people and he let them down. He's kidding himself if he thinks more PR is going to fix that. And so is the Presstitute Pundocracy.

I think the White House has discovered that Bush is actually his own worst enemy. I started to notice a shift, when Bush started campaigning hard for the Social Security disaster.

He promised it would be "90 cities in 90 days". Every time they trotted him out, the proposed plan went down in popularity. The plan, which had a fair amount of support in the beginning, started to go down in support! Mike Malloy played some clips of Bush trying to push the agenda. He sounded like an idiot. "Ah, well, you see....it's an amor-tization....think about....uh, oh...give me a moment......"

I think Bush's handlers have always had a tough time with Bush. But it seems like lately, ANY time they drag him out, things get worse.

So they will probably not include Bush. They will probably pick other stooges to hammer out the message. Like McLiar, or Laura Bush, or maybe Poppy. Cheney's out. They're running out of people.

Film at 11

Bring it on Bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Left of Cool

At first I thought you were going to tell them to STFU....

:D

time to haul out the booby traps and shotguns. Never a thought for cooperating, communicating, coming together to solve this serious problem for the good of the whole united country. No way. Criminals through and through.

They act SOOOOOOOOO guilty

We can only hope that more of the public sees the spin for what it is.

Maybe they'll ratchet the volume up a bit but pointing fingers at Democratic politicians who only had intelligence reports PRODUCED BY THIS ADMINISTRATION as their source of information, this smear attempt will fall flat on its face except with the most ignorant and blind followers of the propaganda.

It's tantamount to me telling my kids to tell their teacher she's ugly or something and then blaming my kids when they get in trouble.


amazing hubris.

What else could they posssibly say?

the cat's out of the bag already!

1. Roll out a cute animal mascot to defend the war: Warry the warpig
2. New slogan: Death is GOOD for you!
3. Bush needs to get MORE folksy! He starts going around calling everyone "Cracker".
4. Donald Rumsfeld to star in his own reality show "The War and Me".
5. Ahmed Chalabi to be hired as a PR consultant
6. Begin a "Blow a CIA Agent's Cover a Month!" campaign! Make a calendar, with each month featuring one of our undercover operatives and a board game! Fun for the whole family!
7. MORE CHENEY!


Etc.

song and a symbol...like wag the dog. America needs a symbol to feel better about this war. And can we have a WH Christmas Special bringing in old favorites like the Saudi's in Santa hats?

is that if they are doing this they are worried. If there was no twisting of the intelligence why not a full blown investigation. Sorry guys you are not going to spin or shove this one under the rug. We Americans what to know the truth why are men and women are dying over in Iraq. And the 911 excuse is not going to work Iraq was not involved Mr. President!

which, of course, would only make them quiver.

They want to shine this turd? Sure, go ahead, give it a shot.

'Bidnis as usual for Mr. Rove. I am still waiting for the band to strike up John Philip Sousa's Frog March!

that one was just so devistating

Cause we are waiting for you to finish so we can take the final punch and you will all be down for the count as they say in boxing.

has gotten into the right people's minds in the PR dept - I have the COMPLETE Chronology of the Plamegate on the 2 DVD set at http://www.takebackthemedia.com

and it's FREE for any Congress Critter that wants to "gird their loins" with the TRUTH and prepare for their idiotic attack with FACTS :)

girliemen all.

the more they talk, the more they lie

And PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't send B'rer Dumbass out to defend his administration! (hee hee hee hee hee.....)

hee hee, indeed!

be "hitting back at Dems" because we won so BIG last night!

Why don't they try telling the truth on the "twisted war intelligence"..now there's a thought I bet they haven't entertained.

Haha.. bring it on Chimp.

Nothing like the bright light of truth
to send you cockroaches running.

our side.

and go home? What a fucking bunch of sissies they are.

HIT BACK ALL YOU WANT ASSHOLES!

*shivers* only then will Americans realize the power of the (R)

must be part of their weak strategy to defend the war/invasion.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1912820

I can hear it already!

Idiots!

david

I don't think people are gonna get suckered so easily this time.

Here's a hint: If you want people to like you, stop hurting them.

... in the first place.

With any luck, when retaliating against their current critics, they'll violate even more laws and ethical standards than they did when "hitting back" at that earlier critic of theirs, Joe Wilson.

Australia, Jordan, Syria, Iran, Malaysia, France, Spain, England, America, and oh yea Iraq.

False Flag Operations.... keep us afraid.... keep us very afraid.

all the time.

It'll be hard to make america forget hurricane katrina.

They got nuthin'.

Their only intelligent response so far is "Did not!".

Why? the speeches are only made to a hand selected audience, otherwise people would be throwing rotten fruit. They ought to just face the fact that they are all going down.

Seems like his plate is pretty full with legal matters at the moment. Does he really have the bandwidth to go on the offensive at the same time? We'll see.

while you fritter away our tax dollars campaigning against THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY?

9/BUSH/11

No wonder why we do not trust the repugs. Good God! They are so childish.

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rocknation

Liars, phonies, schemers, and taritorous crooks.

I think people are tired enough of all the image consultant BS that they can see right through it.

its all they know.

is at least as effective as the campaigns that the repubs ran for their candidates for governor here in New Jersey and in Virginia, because everyone can see just how effective they were. :eyes: