Here are some of today's "top" stories....can anyone defend them?
Please cite your sources with links....I can't seem to confirm that any of these stories are true, but they're getting a lot of "play". What's up with that?
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http://www.freedomproject.org/index....t=1&ucat=1
<b>Where is Nancy Pelosi ?</b>
<a href="http://movies.crooksandliars.com/nora-pelosi.wmv">Video</a>-WMP
O'DONNELL: What about Nancy Pelosi? We were just showing pictures. She would be the speaker — likely be the speaker of the House if Democrats win control. Where's she been the last week?
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....and there's this "curious" "story", from the mouths of highly placed Bush administration officials:
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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...s/15925564.htm
Posted on Sat, Nov. 04, 2006
Hussein’s nuclear program files bring officials full circle on threat from Iraq.
The Associated Press
“ …There clearly were an awful lot of nuclear documents floating around Iraq, which suggest that this is someone who’d not given up on his ambitions.”
-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
http://www.fnsg.com/transcript.htm?i...1741eddc31319f
White House Counselor Dan Bartlett:
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/03/bartlett-iraq-nuclear/">Watch It</a>
BARTLETT: Obviously, in this case, Andrea, there has been a problem because these documents went on, and <b>they reveal what many people knew, was that Saddam Hussein had the capability and was working toward a nuclear weapon program. They had the scientists and the documents.</b>....
.....BARTLETT: True, Andrea, but they didn’t lose that knowledge. They didn’t take down the scientific apparatus or the capabilities to develop that. <b>And Charlie Duelfer and other weapons experts all said what Saddam Hussein was doing was waiting the international community out, to make sure they got the inspectors out, so that they can then restart their program. He had the capability and he had the know-how to do it.</b> And I think that’s a stark reminder for people.
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http://www.freedomproject.org/index...._from=&ucat=6&
<b>New York Times Confirms Saddam’s Iraq Was Close to Having Nuclear Weapons</b>
<i>Story Comes One Day After REport on Terrorist Plans to Strike U.S. Cities</i>
<b>Card Blames New York Times For ‘Advertising’ Nuclear Secrets ‘To The World’ </b>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/03/card-blames-nyt/">Watch It</a>
This morning on NBC, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card excused the Bush administration’s role in posting nuclear weapons secrets on a public web site,
Card said “it’s important that we recognize the government is doing the right thing” and claimed the government “acted very quickly” to remove the nuclear secrets.
Transcript:
LAUER: What do you make of this? Who’s gonna get the blame for this?
CARD: Well, you know, this is one of those things that John Negroponte warned us that we don’t know what’s in these documents, so these are being put out at some risk. And that was a warning he put out right when they first released the documents. <b>We pulled them down, and I think the government has acted very quickly, and we’ve pulled them down. I’m a little bit concerned that the New York Times has advertised them to the world</b>, so that more people might see them…
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My concern is that some people who participate on this forum may be taking the nonsense above, "in"....considering it in their opinion forming process, as "news". Does anyone else see this as "the stuff" from which misinformed voting has it's roots?
.....Or....are these "stories" true....can you defend their validity?