AZ Republic: Honesty and credibility are the campaign issues!

[Catshrink]

Here are snips from an editorial today by O. Ricardo Pimentel (he's a reasonable voice in this pretty much right wing paper).


(added) Link to the article:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0715pimentel15.html

"The president says he was bamboozled by the CIA into including false information in his State of the Union address.

Agency Director George Tenet is officially the fall guy.

OK, but the CIA wasn't the only agency to know that Iraq didn't try to buy uranium from Niger, a suspect factoid the president worked into his address to prove Saddam Hussein had a nuclear program.

The State Department knew the intelligence to be faulty. Its African bureau was briefed on the findings of the former State Department official sent by the CIA to Niger to investigate.

The CIA, the official says, instigated the investigation because of an inquiry from the vice president's office. Are we now to believe that the vice president didn't get his answer?

And are we to believe that the 2003 State of the Union address wasn't vetted with either the State Department or vice president?

Of course it was. So why haven't Colin Powell and Dick Cheney also fallen on their swords?"

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

I hope the media and everyone else just keeps piling on. Jr. lied. He should be impeached!

[blondeatlast]

1. Welcome to DU, CatShrink! Are you a zonie?

There are several of us here, believe it or not. If you are, send me a PM. I will try to arrange a meetup in the near future.

Pimentel is a voice of reason and compassion, and a lovely man as well.

[scarletwoman]

2. Could you please provide the link?

DU rules: http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules.html

#3. -- Don't post entire articles. Instead, post short excerpts (not exceeding 4 paragraphs) with links.

[Catshrink]

3. Oops.. sorry

I added the link to the original post. Thanks for not yelling at me. I promise I won't do it again!!! I'm still a newbie.

[newyawker99]

4. Catshrink

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