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CShine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 08:55 PM
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Gore to accuse Bush of intentional distortion on Iraq/Al-Q ties (Drudgie)
Washington, DC-- In a major Washington policy address this Thursday, former Vice President Al Gore will accuse the Bush Administration of intentionally misleading the American people by continuing to falsely claim a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

He will charge that Bush and Cheney have "institutionalized dishonesty as an essential element of their policy process."

Gore will also urge the broadcast media to further resist Administration efforts to manipulate and intimidate them, to fearlessly report the fact that there is no Al Qaeda/Saddam collaborative relationship, as the 9/11 Commission staff report has concluded.

Gore will also discuss the implications of the Administration's claim to be above the law in ordering the torture of suspects - and their claim that the Commander in Chief's power trumps all other laws. He will call for the Administration to reveal all orders given the military on the treatment of prisoners.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 08:57 PM
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1. woohoo.... If Al woulda shown those balls in 2000
we wouldn't be in this mess today, but better late than never :shrug:
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Voltaire99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 12:16 AM
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16. Too bad we can't ditch Kerry and run Al!
He's clearly evolved beyond his old, drab establishment self. Let's hope he can take the Democratic Party there, too!
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 08:57 PM
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2. "institutionalized dishonesty..."
Thank you, Al Gore! :toast:
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fearnobush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:17 PM
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8. It's President Gore.
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David Dunham Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:01 PM
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3. Go Al Go!!
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:09 PM
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4. He is certainly Mr. Courage. He doesn't give a damn about all
the ridicule he has been subjected to for addressing all the lies in his speeches. We are lucky to have him.
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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:16 PM
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7. Indeed we are...
...and, having had the opportunity to get to know the "real Al Gore" and not the media crafted bullshit image, over the past couple years, I weep tears that that CRIMINAL FRAUD STOLE THE WHITE HOUSE.

Gore would have made a FANTASTIC president. And he said you will know them by their fruits. Look at him, and his family. Even Tipper, who I used to harbor a grudge toward. Did you know that she did not advocate the stupid "warning labels"? She was pushing for, in the early 90s remember, a system of networked computers in the record stores that a parent could scan the barcode, and look up information on the artist, album, label, samples of CDs their kids wanted to buy. The record industry said, "No, that's too expensive, we'll just slap labels on all the rap albums."

Man, I hope there is an alternate universe somewhere that Gore is rightfully serving out his term and when people say Bush, they are talking about Poppy still...

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fearnobush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:22 PM
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9. Yes, wanted to see that episode too.
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:11 PM
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5. I love that man. An honest voice that has no fear. They have
already screwed him royally; now it's payback time.
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steely Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:14 PM
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6. I want to read more, like how he transmitted his intentions
before Thursday's address - but am averse to going to drudge.

"Go Al, Go" my sentiments exactly!
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:23 PM
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10. I want the Al Gore Remix to be my President!
The Al Gore that spits fire would easily get my vote. That's not to say that the old Gore didn't get my vote last time, of course. He just was not very inspiring back then.

'Luck to Kerry
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:28 PM
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11. All due respect, Mr. President, it's NOT 'intentional misleading,'
It's LYING. The sorry piece of shit that sits in your chair LIED to us all on TV (thank you, Merle Haggard, for that deathless phrase) about how we just had to go kill Saddam RIGHT NOW BECAUSE HE WAS ABOUT TO NUKE US.

He wanted his little war so bad that he was pissing down both legs. He was jumping like a flea on a hot rock. THERE WAS NO TIME TO LOSE, the Worthless Little Shit told us, WE HAD TO STRIKE NOW!!!!

Mister President, it was a pack of LIES at the time and it remains A PACK OF LIES NOW.

Somebody needs to call bu$h out on his LYING--and I think it should be you. Or are you still listening to the CONSULTANTS who made you play nice about that Florida business?


'Bout time to use the L-word, innit? Hmmmmm?

:freak:
dbt

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Tellurian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:48 PM
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13. I agree, the use of the correct linguistics is key..
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 10:04 PM by Tellurian
Bush isn't misleading...HE's outright LYING...

I recently read an article clearly stating how the Bush camp has become so successful at keeping the public subdued and docile, like little house plants...Their well thought out strategists have long been crafting preordained linguistics to confuse and disorient people's cognition of facts..Evidence is now defined as Classified documents.Prisoners are labeled combatants/detainees. Dissent is Unpatriotism..and on and on..

The correct terminology for this new age speak is created by a Buzz Phrase Generator

They're POWs-- just like they always were.. Dissent is Civil Disobedience..

The Bush Administration relabels everything to a new and unfamiliar word, muddying mass perceptions of the definition of words. Hopefully creating confusion and mass misunderstanding of the meaning of what "IS" "IS"-
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 09:33 PM
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12. go Gore! he's really become interesting, huh? so much for bushco being
able to keep pretending like he doesn't exist. rove will be forced to have bush's people saying nasty stuff about Gore from now until the election... and it doesn't matter a bit because Gore's not running for anything! and they can try to pretend that it doesn't matter what Gore thinks, but every time Gore speaks it's a subconscious reminder to his listeners that HE IS THE GUY WE VOTED IN, BY HALF A MILLION VOTES. except for a flawed, highjacked voting process, hed be president right now.
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 10:36 PM
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14. Too bad no one will report the speech
And the public won't even know it happened. Except, perhaps, for some sneering dismissals.
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Mechatanketra Donating Member (903 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 11:42 PM
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15. Oh, some people will hear about it, I'm sure.
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 11:42 PM by Mechatanketra
They'll get at least a hearsay summary accompanying the report of Kerry or Clinton clarifying that they don't think the administration was outright lying. (Or maybe that counts as a sneering dismissal.) :eyes:
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Voltaire99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 12:19 AM
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17. You've nailed it (n/t)
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