August 11, 2008
August 11, 2008
Today on Ankarlo Mornings: John Edwards admits to having an affair. But, does it matter? He’s politically irrelevant and yes, he is a liar. The shock factor has worn off though. Just look at the list of cheaters, JFK, Bill Clinton, David Vitter, Larry Craig (just to name a few).
Also, Ron Suskind tells Ankarlo why he thinks the Bush White House lied about Iraq’s WMDs.
The Phoenix Police Department has been trying for two years to get their officers rifles. But, management keeps blocking their requests. Late last month, the police responded to an attempted suicide. But, they had to shoot the perp. He ended up pointing the gun at police. Then the police had to shoot him from over 100 yards away with a pistol.
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Rob — Is this working?
Ankarlo — You had Ron Suskind on today who told you about how the Bush Admin. wanted to forge documents to lie us into the Iraq war. And basically, you had no reaction. You are the drama queen of Phoenix and get raging angry about the silliest things, but yet someone tells you our military men and woman were put into harm’s way for lies and you say “Thanks for being on the show”? End of story. You didn’t even take calls.
Where’s the anger? You are soooo partisan. If a Dem president had done this, you’d be calling for people in the streets. Which we should…no matter what party the President belongs to. But you put your blinders on. You are shameless. And to think that your son was even over there and could have died for a lie.
Like I’ve said before Suskind is only one of many sources. Some were from inside the Administration itself, and others are CIA and DIA agents:
“McClellan charges that Bush relied on ‘propaganda’ to sell the war”:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html
“The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, led by and a bipartisan majority of the Committee. on Thursday unveiled the final two sections of its Phase II report on prewar intelligence, which detail Bush administration misstatements and exaggerations on prewar Iraq intel”:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003812827
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill: The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush/
Longtime WH Counter-Terrorism Official, Richard Clarke (just after 9/11):
“What happened was the president, with his finger in my face, saying, ‘Iraq, a memo on Iraq and al-Qaida, a memo on Iraq and the attacks.’ Very vigorous, very intimidating, and in a way that left all of us with the same impression, that he wanted that answer. Well, we couldn’t give him that answer because it wasn’t true.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/jan-june04/clarke_03-22.html
Dept of Defense Analyst for 25 years, Peter Molan:
The justifications for that war were completely counter to everything that I had learned in that 20-odd years of government service working on the Middle East, as you say. I was simply outraged by the twisting and turning of intelligence information that I had helped develop to what was clearly, to my mind, a preordained policy decision that I felt to be profoundly wrong.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/157236
Just after 9/11, Rumsfeld sends memo wanting “best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H.” – meaning Saddam Hussein – “at same time. Not only UBL”:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml
CIA agent, Michael Scheuer: “Headed the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit and saw the confrontation up close. ‘I know a lot of people in the Iraq shop who were dissenting. There were people who were disciplined or taken off accounts.’”:
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=10472
Ankarlo had said that the phoenix police didn’t want give it’s officers long guns because they were “unsafe”. I would feel much safer as a citizen if the police had the long guns. Four shots to God know where or one shot to the crazed guy who says he’s going to be the last one to put the gun down. Seems to me, that’s more safe than the alternative.
With the John Edwards issue. Why is it always falling on whether or not the wife is going to stand by them after the affair is announced? At point should maybe Clinton or Edwards step up and say they are going to leave theirs wives because of what they had done?