parados wrote:How does telling Syria that Bush intends to invade Iraq defeat the US? As I pointed out Bush told everyone that later. And it didn't prevent the US from invading.
Let's conduct an investigation and find out if it did or didn't.
FreeDuck wrote:Ticomaya wrote:I'm not suggesting he didn't have the authority to meet with Assad, but perhaps he didn't have the authority to meet with the intent to influence Syria's conduct in relation to the US's controversy with IRAQ.
And there's where you have to show that his intent was to influence Syria's conduct in relation to a controversy with Syria, which controversy would also need to be defined.
I mistakenly wrote "Syria" when I meant "Iraq." I corrected this above.
Ah, ok, that makes sense.
It's still difficult, though, to show that he was intending to influence Syria's conduct at all. And one can argue that as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was authorized to say whatever he wanted to Assad. But perhaps you are right that there should be an investigation. I'm open to convincing on that. My hunch, of course, is that this is just smear and that the admin is back in attack mode. But perhaps that's because the right wing has no credibility with me. But again, maybe you can convince me.
It's certainly no more a smear effort than the Democratic push to investigate the Plame non-affair.
Ticomaya wrote:It's certainly no more a smear effort than the Democratic push to investigate the Plame non-affair.
You sure that was a Democratic push? I was under the impression that the CIA and the DOJ pushed for that investigation, not a bunch of left-wing blogs.
FreeDuck wrote:Ticomaya wrote:It's certainly no more a smear effort than the Democratic push to investigate the Plame non-affair.
You sure that was a Democratic push? I was under the impression that the CIA and the DOJ pushed for that investigation, not a bunch of left-wing blogs.
Well, the CIA pushed ... maybe that was a poor choice of words. But I don't see this as the Administration smearing, but rather a push from those who think what Rockefeller did was potentially far more problematic than what was done with Plame.
