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Originally Posted by dculkin
I don't understand this comment. Murtha expressed his disdain for Dick Cheney. How is that an assault on our Constitution?With all due respect to the author of this letter, how in the hell does he know what Murtha has forgotten?
My reaction to Murtha is two-fold. My immediate reaction was that his proposal sounds like a recipe for disaster. On the other hand, when someone of his stature speaks, I listen. It doesn't mean we all need to bow down to Murtha, but I don't see any grounds for the personal attacks leveled by the authors of the two letters you post. I don't fault either man. I just disagree.
As for Murtha's comment about Cheney, I didn't understand him to be responding to any specific comment that Cheney made. He is just disgusted by the man, as are many Americans. Maybe Murtha should rise above his personal feelings for Cheney, but under the circumstances, we should cut his some slack, IMHO.
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I don't know what either of them meant. I posted them as opinion because Murtha gave opinion. In the scope of thing I guess all three statements are worthless with regard to decisionmaking.
BTW, you should check out the
www.cfr.org link. Roundabout on page 3 of 10 (when printed) there's a paragraph that starts "as director tenet described in august..." Talks about Cheney and his statements regarding Iraq nuclear capability. Turns out there was information in the NIE that stated Saddam could have nuclear weapons in months. Incidentally, this NIE came was out round about the time that you said Bush made the comment regarding the IAEA report. Think there's any chance he may have confused two agencies at an impromptu press conference?