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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4250
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 01:57 pm: | 
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Rice rebuffs congress on Iraq war subpoena
Apr 26 09:45 AM US/Eastern
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signalled Thursday that she would not comply with a subpoena to appear before Congress to testify about discredited assertions on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
"This is an issue that has been answered and answered and answered," Rice said when asked about the subpoena during a visit to Oslo for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.
Rice said her staff had written three letters in the last month to Democratic congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, concerning his questions about bogus 2003 White House assertions that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had sought enriched uranium from Niger as part of a program to develop nuclear weapons.
President George W. Bush included the claim in his State of the Union message weeks before launching the March 2003 invasion of Iraq even though top intelligence officials believed the allegation to be baseless.
Rice, who was Bush's national security adviser at the time, said Thursday that she was willing to provide additional information to Waxman's committee in writing.
But she added that her White House work was covered by the constitutional principle of executive privilege, a principle presidents have in the past used to shelter aides from being forced to testify under oath in Congress.
"If there are further questions that Congressman Waxman has, then I am more than happy to answer them again in a letter, because I think that that is the way to continue this dialogue," she said.
"This all took place in my role as national security adviser," Rice continued.
"There is a separation of powers, and advisers to the president are, under that constitutional principle, not generally required to go and testify in Congress," she said.
"I think we have to observe and uphold constitutional principles," she said, adding: "I think I have more than answered these questions and answered them directly to Congressman Waxman."
But Rice stopped short of ruling out an appearance before Waxman's committee and when asked if she would comply with the subpoena, her spokesman Sean McCormack said, "We haven't decided yet."
In announcing the subpoena on Wednesday, Waxman said Rice's tenure as Bush's top security adviser in the run-up to the Iraq war gives her unique insights into why the administration pressed its claim about the Niger uranium link to Saddam Hussein.
Allegations that Iraq was seeking to build weapons of mass destruction provided the main justification for the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
But no such weapons were found and top intelligence officials have since revealed that the report concerning Iraq's alleged bid to obtain uranium from Niger had been discounted prior to Bush's 2003 State of the Union address.
The Central Intelligence Agency notably sent a retired diplomat, Joseph Wilson, to Niger to check on the claims, and he reported back that they were groundless.
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4640
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 05:18 pm: |
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This Congress is a bunch of morons. Instead of focusing on current events, trying to improve things for the future, or coming up with solutions to our myriad problems, they'd rather sit around and beat a dead and stinking horse. I'm glad she told those dummycrats where to get off.
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Libralind2
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Post Number: 801
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 07:19 pm: |
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This is a GOOD post Chris ::smile::
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Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4254
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 12:26 pm: |
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This Congress is a bunch of morons. Instead of focusing on current events, trying to improve things for the future, or coming up with solutions to our myriad problems, they'd rather sit around and beat a dead and stinking horse. I'm glad she told those dummycrats where to get off.
(Let us use that same reasoning if I got some furniture from you and didn't pay--
Hey!~ That's all in the past. You are beating a dead and stinking horse. Don't bother suing because I won't obey the subpoena.
How dumb do you feel now?) |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4645
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 02:17 pm: |
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Your analogy is warped. People pay for their furniture when they purchase it, not after it's been delivered. So your deadbeat behind will just continue to lie in your dilapidated bed and eat your stale ass crackers like you've been doing.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8447
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 02:29 pm: |
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chrishadyen would rather go without eating than to concede that anybody else besides him has a valid point. |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 02:48 pm: |
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I might have known the two of you would leap to the defense of a fellow handkerchief head.
When will you stand up for some REAL blacks? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8449
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 03:07 pm: |
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You certainly don't qualify as a real black man, chrishayden. You're a self-loathing malcontent who is mad because you secretly wants white folks to love you. poor ol guy. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4267
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 03:37 pm: |
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You can't name anybody can you? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8456
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 03:51 pm: |
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A real black man is in the eye of the beholder. There is no single black hero on a white horse, poised to save the race. Any hope for the future lies with a cadre of diverse black men, amenable to compromise. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4646
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 04:03 pm: |
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You're about the last netargroreo to refer to anyone as a handkerchief head. You posted this article because of what? You think this is a productive use of Congressional time, chasing the myth of the WMD?
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8463
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 06:17 pm: |
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Just stick to calling chrishayden names, Mzuri. That's all he knows. Reason and logic are not anything that he deals with. |
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