Hadley offers resignation. . .Bush refuses

Obviously he is not concerned with his own lies. I think he is making a big mistake (well actually this is probably good for us).

There a link?

First they blame Tenet, then some other guy, now Hadley steps up to the plate. Is this the Three Stooges or what?

http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=030722&cat=news&st=newsiraqusauraniumdc

Bush Aide Takes Blame for Iraq Uranium Uproar

Updated 6:20 PM ET July 22, 2003


By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's number two national security aide on Tuesday took blame for a controversy over charges Iraq tried to buy African uranium, saying the CIA had warned him earlier that intelligence cited by Bush was suspect.

Stephen Hadley, deputy national security adviser, said he should have deleted a reference to Iraqi attempts to buy African uranium from Bush's State of the Union speech in January, because the CIA had asked him to remove similar language from an October speech by the president.

Hadley's disclosure came amid an internal White House inquiry launched by Chief of Staff Andy Card in an attempt to quell a controversy that has dogged Bush for two weeks.

"I should have recalled at the time of the State of the Union speech that there was controversy associated with the uranium issue," Hadley said in a meeting with reporters that ran nearly 90 minutes.

"I should have either asked that the 16 words dealing with that subject be stricken or I should have alerted DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) Tenet. And had I done so this would have avoided the whole current controversy."

"It is now clear to me that I failed in that responsibility," Hadley said.

He said he had failed to recall the CIA objections, which were included in two memos and a telephone conversation with Tenet in the days before Bush outlined his case against Iraq in an Oct. 7, 2002 speech in Cincinnati.

More at link.

Hadley says that he and Condi let Bush down. He offered his resignation but Bush refused.

He forgot Tenet's warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they just let that pass on the broadcast.

just HOW incompetent ARE they?

said the President wants to move on..........

nothing else after that

. . .there was a reason Hadley took the blame today. . .there are other stories to cover. Just keep beating the drim and don't let this one die.

going to die.

He didn't think it was important...

Remember this when they try to diss Graham's notebooks as neurotic. People "forget" things when they don't write them down! ;)

. . .Hadley was just following his orders.

they would sacrifice this guy. What's he going to do, rat * out?

Hadley is dutifully trying to shield Bush* from the flying shit. Bush* is so arrogant that he doens't think it will matter that this guy who has admitted incompetence is still working for him.

However, if this thing doesn't go away soon, Hadley is toast.

or Condi later.

Isn't that what he said about Tenet?

It didn't work the first time, what makes them think it will work now?

Oh, I know...*I* will take the blame! Yeah, that's the ticket...I failed to warn Bunnypants his info was bogus. Think anyone will buy that?
sheesh.
:eyes:

Anyone else?

:hi: w, if you're reading this, I'm sorry I didn't tell you you were lying.

and he wants it to look like it was a total aberration. everything else tenet, i mean, hadley has done is exemplary, right?

"tenet is... i mean, hadley is a good man, i have complete confidence in his ability."

How much of this are we supposed to take? This is becoming absolutely insane--as in really insane. Our guys are dying daily in Iraq, Bush is cavorting around in Crawford, taunting those who do not have access to air conditioning on his wasted pig ranch, Laura is as much a frump as ever and NOWHWERE are the American people given any consideration as to where this insane man is going, what he has done, how he has lied and no where is he being held accountable for ALL the children he has killed, as he smiles and waves his Hitlerian salute form the deck of AF 1--and Laura smiles. I hate them both. I hate what he has done to my country. I hate what he stands for--rich, elite, moneyed going way back, non responsible IDIOT!

To quote Johnny Rotten, "hate is an energy if used properly." I feel the same way.

:kick:

for why Hadley and Rice still have jobs is that they are tag-teaming * in the oval office.

we admit it, we lied and then we lied about the lies. So, that's all folks.

No accountability. No responsibility. No consequences.

Why have you been hiding?