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Home Front: Politix
Low IQ Award... Reyes: U.S. Intelligence 'Manipulated'
2006-12-29
This is an attempt to "rehabilitate" Reyes' "image" after he proved he's as dumb as a brick and has no business running a schwarma stand, much less the most important House Committee. I expect the first of many - they will be needed to recover from each encounter with a non-swooning Press representative.
SMALL>WASHINGTON (AP) - Incoming House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes says he'd rather figure out how to stabilize Iraq and bring the troops home than get bogged down investigating what went wrong.

Despite that pledge, he does plan to revisit one bit of history: What he sees as the government's improper classification of a letter he wrote during the congressional debate on the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

In the letter, he questioned the intelligence used to take the country to war and specifically the "epiphany in the intelligence community" that al-Qaida and the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein were linked, Reyes says. Based on the answers to questions he'd asked since Sept. 11, 2001, he said that assessment was "a complete turnaround" for U.S. analysts. "We now know that the intelligence was cherry-picked and manipulated," Reyes said in a recent interview. "I thought it was real petty to get (the letter) classified."
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#8  a bit harsh, wxjames, a bit harsh. Not all Dems suck: Joe Lieberman comes to mind. However, they do have a disproportional amount of thumb suckers and idiots. At the bottom of the barrel are Michael Moore, Jimmah Carter, etc. A list that's far too long. These ijits are just snot of the nose of America...Damnit I try to be positive but the bad karma of the Dhimmicrats keeps pulling me back in...
Posted by: Warthog   2006-12-29 16:22  

#7  Currie's advice: "Be eternally skeptical of everything you are told. In many instances, these people are trained to lie for a living."
And this differs from democrats how ?
Democrats lie for a living, and so thoroughly, that they cannot accept truth or tellers of truth. All democrats suck and should drop dead.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-12-29 11:35  

#6  The schwarma must flow.
Posted by: Excalibur   2006-12-29 11:34  

#5  Remember when Clinton ordered the attack on a factory in Africa? Part of the rational was that it was part of a joint Iraqi-Al'Qaeda chemical weapon operation.

How soon they expect us to forget.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-12-29 11:06  

#4  Listening to Hannity last night, they had on college kids from the midwest (North Dakota State, one of the branch schools of Minnesota, etc.), who CORRECTLY answered all the questions Reyes flunked.

And, while I applaud his service in 'nam and on the border in El Paso, he hasn't served there since 1996. A LOT has happened on our TX/Mexico border in the last 10 years. Oh well, at least he's not a life-long attorney.
Posted by: BA   2006-12-29 10:51  

#3  A spokesman for incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said she has no second thoughts about choosing Reyes to head the panel.

And none of us have any surprise, doubts or second thoughts about your not having any "second thoughts."
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-12-29 09:56  

#2  So back to the old mantra? I can honestly tell you that two people can look at the same intelligence and arrive at two direct opposite conclusions. Now this guy will most likely NEVER reach a conclusion and will simply download the Moveon talking points.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-12-29 09:52  

#1  Currie's advice: "Be eternally skeptical of everything you are told. In many instances, these people are trained to lie for a living."

GFY!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-12-29 09:50  

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