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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:49 PM
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Malloy: Bill Nelson (D FL) says the WH told him Iraq could reach US
Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 09:50 PM by librechik
with secret missiles. Apparently 75 Senators were there for a special briefing before the war. Nelson won't say who in the WH told him.


Can't find the matching article from a Florida paper.

This could be it, folks--- a SMOKING BIG lie!

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more after this break?
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jab105 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:50 PM
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1. There have been so many of them...
nothing seems to stick...must be *'s damn teflon coating, &*$#&*!!
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:51 PM
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2. Probably that closed door security meeting right before they
all changed their vote.
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NavajoRug Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:52 PM
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3. Did Nelson have any reason to doubt this?
In any case, I'd really like to know who the other 75 Senators were, and hear their take on it.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:58 PM
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4. 75 Credulous Morons Believed George Bush?
75? Without one question as to how come they were suddenly such a big threat and what they maybe hoped to get out of such a pointless gesture?

75 and not one question?

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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:59 PM
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5. Link and snip from FL paper
<snip>

Nelson said the senators were told Iraq had both biological and chemical weapons, notably anthrax, and it could deliver them to cities along the Eastern seaboard via unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones.

"They have not found anything that resembles an UAV that has that capability," Nelson said.

Nelson delivered the news during a half-hour conference call with reporters Monday afternoon. The senator, who is on a seven-nation trade mission to South America, was calling from an airport in Santiago, Chile.

"That's news," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington, D.C.-area military and intelligence think tank. "I had not heard that that was the assessment of the intelligence community. I had not heard that the Congress had been briefed on this."

more...

http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/localstoryN1216NELSON.htm
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:10 PM
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9. Frankly I think the senators that voted for the war resolution KNEW this
was bullshit but having had an attempted murder occur in their own offices, decided that the Bushies were fucking crazy enough to unleash anthrax and kill more Americans if they did not get their way...it's a little difficult to go on TV and say that since the O'Really's of the world would immediately discredit them...but I have had this conversation with a friend recently.

I do think those that were against unilateral war but voted for IWR anyway did so out of a fear that Americans might be terrorized to scare them into war.

The senators, therefore, voted for war under PREDICTABLE circumstances rather than war under UNPREDICTABLE cirsumstances...they knew war was imminent regardless. They made a choice to save lives here rather than there. It's not a choice I would have wanted to make..but two years and STILL NO ANTHRAX killer even with a limited group of scientists with access....but we can find Saddam in a hole in the ground? Think about it.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:37 PM
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13. Interesting article!
It appears the media has been muzzled also, and now a senator speaks out. My God, what's going on? Why isn't ABC, NBC, FAUX, CNN, CBS, MSNBC all running with this story. This is big! How come, thee Dan Rather's isn't calling out to the top of his lungs for answers?
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bobbyboucher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:00 PM
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6. This could be HEEUUUGE!
Something has got to give.
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chaumont58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:07 PM
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8. It could be, if the whores pick up the ball and run with it
Otherwise, it will disappear down the rat hole that is the lap dog White House Press Corps.
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:04 PM
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7. Randi Rhodes touched on this while I was listening today for a short
time...she said she believed now that the Senators were really lied to.

When does this crap stop???
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:11 PM
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10. shameful. how fucking gullible could these morons be?
and they used the WH briefing as their only source of info?

shameful. cowardly. disgusting.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:15 PM
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11. I'm afraid that soon, some type of weapons or missles
...will be uncovered in Iraq that America planted. I really do. And the Bush psychos will say "A-HA, WE TOLD YOU SO!"
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:40 PM
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14. No doubt in my mind! When the times right and the right person can be ...
bought. When the U.S. is in complete control and the right media personel are on hand the WMD will be planted.
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quaker bill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 11:51 PM
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19. They will save this for a bit later
It needs to be closer to the election. Saddam will not cooperate for a bit, then the magic.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:27 PM
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12. Why aren't the senators screaming bloody murder every day?
What the hell is going on if they won't out the facts? Don't give the bastards time to cover their tracks and make up lies like a big stinking turd!
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:45 PM
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15. coz they are political cowards.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 10:45 PM
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16. Perhaps some senators are in bed with the same folks,
the republians are. Big business.

Corporate American has their men well placed.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 11:34 PM
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17. kicking this thread
:kick:

Gosh, yet another major story/scandal that will never see the light of day


Ho hum, carry on, Christmas shopping! Christmas shopping!
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 11:46 PM
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18. Just tuning in
:D
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