... beside the possibility that the White House's favored Iraqi exile was an Iranian agent, that the spy chief just got canned, and that the president has had to retain outside counsel in the investigation into which members of his staff burned one of the country's own spies, I'd say the place is being run like a pretty well-oiled machine.
he's the only good thing in the admin. i love him. he's the only sane one of the bunch as Bill Maher says, and i agree. long before the war he was the TIME magazine cover story and he expressed he was against going to war
Maybe you'll even write one. It would have about as much credibility.
Interesting logic. Let's see. So Bush kept this man in office , even though he has no credibility?
Not only that, but he used the agency this man runs, the man with no credibility, to gather and provide intelligence to see if going to war with Iraq was necessary to remove an "immediate" threat.
Edit: Removed the smilies because on second thought, it's not funny when a president uses someone with no credibility to provide "intelligence" necessary to take the nation to war.
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Originally posted by faust9
Tenet is retiring for "personal reasons".
Yeah, he had to resign before his book about the incompetence of the Bush administration came out.
OK, that was a bit unexpected. Let the speculation and conspiracy theories continue....
I give it two and a half months . . .maybe three.
... beside the possibility that the White House's favored Iraqi exile was an Iranian agent, that the spy chief just got canned, and that the president has had to retain outside counsel in the investigation into which members of his staff burned one of the country's own spies, I'd say the place is being run like a pretty well-oiled machine.
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Originally posted by BRussell
Yeah, he had to resign before his book about the incompetence of the Bush administration came out.
Hey . . . I said something like that in the other thread!
I bet its true!
Originally posted by pfflam
How long till his Tell-All book comes out?!?!?!?!
I give it two and a half months . . .maybe three.
Maybe you'll even write one. It would have about as much credibility.
Originally posted by SDW2001
Maybe you'll even write one. It would have about as much credibility.
so tenet has no credibility being the head of the CIA?
Originally posted by SDW2001
Maybe you'll even write one. It would have about as much credibility.
I think there is a term for what you tried to do . .
yes, the term is prolepsis
Which used rhetorically refers to the attempt to bypass percieved innevitable criticism or blame by assuming it in advance.
In other words, you are allready attacking his credibility in order to soften the immanent critique.
Originally posted by ShawnJ
Good. Powell will be next.
he's the only good thing in the admin. i love him. he's the only sane one of the bunch as Bill Maher says, and i agree. long before the war he was the TIME magazine cover story and he expressed he was against going to war
Originally posted by running with scissors
so tenet has no credibility being the head of the CIA?
No one who says anything bad about the administration has credibility.
likewise, only conservatives can lie.
Originally posted by SDW2001
Maybe you'll even write one. It would have about as much credibility.
Interesting logic. Let's see. So Bush kept this man in office , even though he has no credibility?
Not only that, but he used the agency this man runs, the man with no credibility, to gather and provide intelligence to see if going to war with Iraq was necessary to remove an "immediate" threat.
Edit: Removed the smilies because on second thought, it's not funny when a president uses someone with no credibility to provide "intelligence" necessary to take the nation to war.
Originally posted by pfflam
I think there is a term for what you tried to do . .
yes, the term is prolepsis
Which used rhetorically refers to the attempt to bypass percieved innevitable criticism or blame by assuming it in advance.
In other words, you are allready attacking his credibility in order to soften the immanent critique.
...as much credibility as Perle, Clarke et al. I wasn't referring to Tenet, I was referring to you.