Embedded TIME reporter: W lied about Iraqi security in speech (w/video)

Oeditpus Rex

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Thu Dec-01-05 02:35 PM
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Embedded TIME reporter: W lied about Iraqi security in speech (w/video)

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/01/embedded-time-reporter/

Yesterday, President Bush claimed that Iraqi security forces �primarily led� the assault on the city of Tal Afar. Bush highlighted it as an �especially clear� sign of the progress Iraq security forces were making in Iraq.

The progress of the Iraqi forces is especially clear when the recent anti-terrorist operations in Tal Afar are compared with last year�s assault in Fallujah. In Fallujah, the assault was led by nine coalition battalions made up primarily of United States Marines and Army � with six Iraqi battalions supporting them�This year in Tal Afar, it was a very different story. The assault was primarily led by Iraqi security forces � 11 Iraqi battalions, backed by five coalition battalions providing support.

TIME Magazine reporter Michael Ware, who is embedded with the U.S. troops in Iraq who participated in the Tal Afar battle, appeared on Anderson Cooper yesterday. He said Bush�s description was completely untrue:

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indepat

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Thu Dec-01-05 02:39 PM
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1. When almost everything is a lie, one has to lie about almost everything

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kenny blankenship

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Thu Dec-01-05 02:46 PM
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2. You watch, they're going to gin up a "mobile WMD lab" style campaign

a three ring circus of uniforms who'll all be testifying that Ware wasn't actually there, that the Iraqis pulled the whole assault off by themselves with documents, satellite photography provided with Administration picked experts giving color commentary, all culminating in proof that Ware forged the Niger yellowcake memorandum, etc...

This issue is like the Nixon tapes. This is either the turning point where George W. Bush becomes fatally marked in the public mind as a pathological liar, or we will see another brilliant show of goal-line defense by the White House in which an outsider who dares to say plainly that the President is lying to the people gets taken out in a roar of credibility shredding retribution by whatever "swiftboat" tactic can be found to work on him.

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LSparkle

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Thu Dec-01-05 02:54 PM
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3. You're right -- Ware is Plame II

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kevinmc

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Thu Dec-01-05 03:01 PM
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4. Ware was on Randi Rhodes Yesterday......

and he also said Lieberman was lying.

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ucmike

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Thu Dec-01-05 03:01 PM
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5. mr. ware might want to avoid iraq from now on

his next "embed" might be his last.

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Karmageddon

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Thu Dec-01-05 03:07 PM
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6. He might want to avoid small planes too for that matter.

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Roxy66

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Thu Dec-01-05 03:08 PM
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7. I think I saw him on MSNBC...and he tore Bush a new one n/t

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