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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:06 AM
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Again I ask, "Where are the Pennsylvania Avenue Minutes?"
Why can't Bush show minutes of meetings or official documents in which he ordered our government to do their best to find an alternative to war? The DSMs say that Bush fixed the intelligence around the policy. Why can't Bush simply prove that isn't true? It should be easy.

The President supposedly did due diligence before taking us to war. So show us the memos where he asked people to make absolutely sure we had to go to war. He says he planned for the post war. So show us the plans.

Absence of evidence is evidence of absence. Bush didn't do his homework. Check the record. No homework.
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Tigress DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:34 AM
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1. Lots of Crickets chirping in that silence.
Same blank stare you get whenever you ask for evidence... if it didn't go in the shredder, it probably is all fabricated.

Evidence that shows what he really did - gone to the secure documents home in the sky.

Evidence that shows he did due dilegence. Not gonna happen.

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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 03:40 AM
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2. Absence of evidence , unfortunately,
does not mean evidence of absence. Your point is well taken, however. No amount of bs or fake info is going to save this crew; only spaghetti spine, on our part. Their willingness to out and out lie, in the face of massive evidence to the contrary, with the willing to be hustled crowd below 50%, shows desperation and a total disregard/disrespect for real people.
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 04:40 AM
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3. Yeah, Rummy told us so...
... and it holds true under laboratory conditions. But not in real life.

You are invited to a spaghetti dinner. You get there, and guess what? No one brings out any spaghetti.

You could say to yourself, "Self, maybe they aren't bringing out the spaghetti because they don't like me." Or you might say, "Maybe the spaghetti is there, but I just can't see it because it is very, very, very thin spaghetti."

On the other hand, there is the off chance that the spaghetti never was there, or someone dropped it on the floor or something. Then you check, and there's no spaghetti in the garbage. And you call the spaghetti dealer, and he says that no spaghetti was delivered to the area in the past year.

Pretty soon, it starts to look like maybe there was no spaghetti to begin with.
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:34 PM
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7. O K! haha-cool.
I'll allow you have a needle, sinse you sure have a helluva haystack!
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 04:40 AM
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4. Dupe.. Self delete.
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 04:40 AM by gulliver
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 05:06 AM
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5. He could explain all , but in the interests of national security ... n/t
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 07:35 AM
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6. They're classified....
sorry...
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 02:58 PM
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8. They are in the same box as the Abu Garib videos and photos...
somewhere at the end of a very long isle in a giant warehouse in the middle of a huge military instillation. Oops, we misplaced them...

Imagine the ending of Indiana Jones.
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 07:45 PM
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9. Are any Top Democrats asking this when they go on TV?
If not, then we cant expect Republican owned "journalists" to do it either.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:51 PM
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10. why do you hate America?
Dear Leader is just too busy for this kind of time consuming paperwork.
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radio4progressives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:11 PM
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11. We the People have been all over this...
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tirechewer Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:11 PM
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12. Could also be....
That the written records of what was said contradict all the lies he tells in public. The concept of getting caught and having consequences seems foreign to them. They get caught all the time and then they have to tell more lies and write more memos. Of course they couldn't show them to us. Our weak liberal brains could not possibly encompass the shining glory of the Neocon plans for the US.:sarcasm:

They may be right about no consequences though. Other than a lot of dancing around and a possible Fitzmas for some underlings I haven't seen too many signs that anyone is going to be called to account for all this crap.:hurts:
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