Russert says Dems accountable for Iraq's missing WMDs

[quaoar]

Simply amazing.

This is from an interview Russert gave to Women's Wear Daily magazine:

http://www.wwd.com/search/article/106320?page=1

WWD: After the 2001 terrorist attacks, Dick Cheney's first interview was with "Meet the Press." President Bush's first Sunday morning interview was with you, right before his reelection. Has it gotten harder for Washington's toughest interlocutor to book members of the Bush administration as the war drags on?

T.R.: There is no doubt that the frequency by which Bush administration officials have chosen to give interviews has declined dramatically as the war becomes more and more controversial. The vice president has not been on in more than two years. Rumsfeld hasn't been on in six months.

WWD: As a journalist, do you feel a responsibility to bend in the opposite direction three years after the invasion of Iraq? Is it harder to take what the Republicans say at face value?

T.R.: Well, in terms of , it's important that everybody who said there were WMD explain themselves. Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and John Kerry all said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and chemical, biological weapons and was working on a nuclear program. And what's been lacking is a hardheaded, bipartisan approach. Everybody has an obligation to step up here and acknowledge mistakes.

[Stinky The Clown]

OhFerKrissakesHeeza SHILL A worthless fucking shill

[bunkerbuster1]

1. Does Timmeh even pretend to be a "Journalist" any more?

Does anyone consider him as such?

[blondeatlast]

4. He pretends. We don't buy it, though. nt

[blondeatlast]

2. Um, Timmy--HC, BC, and JK didn't send our children to combat, though.

BIG effing difference, you meathead.

[billybob537]

3. The questioning gets tough

the repukes go hiding.

[joemurphy]

5. Um, maybe the Clintons and Kerry took the President at his word.

Maybe the Prez should explain first, Timmy. And maybe you should explain why journalists like you believed Bush too, Timmy.

[blm]

6. Operating from OLD intel and why they put WEAPONS INSPECTIONS in the IWR

What TIMMY won't say is that IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT OLD INTEL anyone was operating from - the ONLY intel that mattered was the CURRENT intel that Bush was being given from weapons inspectors and intel people ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ in January 2003 - ALL other intel was INOPERABLE the moment weapons inspectors started reporting back with the facts.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. You must be referring to the weapons inspectors that had to

leave Iraq before they had completed their inspections so Bush could start dropping bombs. Of course, he couldn't risk that the truth come out that Saddam didn't have the stockpiles of WMD's and that the sanctions had apparently been working.

[Rageneau]

7. Let's just start calling him Russert Limbaugh

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Asskissing Dipshit.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. "Washington's toughest interlocutor" BWAHA! nt

[SlipperySlope]

10. WTF? No, seriously, WTF?

That's like, I went home, and the cat had shit on the floor, so I punished the dog, because she didn't stop the cat from shitting on the floor.

The cat likes it when I do that.

[karynnj]

11. He seems unable to tell the difference from the

Democrats saying that it was possible (or even probable) that Saddam had WMD. I haven't read all of the Clintons' statements, but I know that all of Kerry's were prefaced by something that indicated that it was less than certainty and a reason why it was prudent to get the inspectors in. Kerry didn't have his own intelligence agency.

[quaoar]

12. And it doesn't even answer the question

He was asked whether he can take anything Republicans say at face value and he launches into Democrats need to be held accountable.

[karynnj]

22. excellent point

[blm]

26. Timmy answered that question - LIKE A TYPICAL REPUBLICAN.

.

[TankLV]

24. And NOT KICK THEM OUT like bunnker boy did!

And who controlled ALL branches of government asswipe timmey?! WAR CRIMINAL REPUKES!

And who withheld information from DEMS assipe timmy?! WAR CRIMINAL REPUKES!

Do you remember when BUSH ONLY INVITED FELLOW REPUKES TO HIS BRIEFINGS - AND NO DEMS? Of course you don't!

Do you remember how many times REPUKES LOCKED DEMS OUT OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS IN CONGRESS TO DISCUSS THIS? Of course you don't!

Sorry, THIS IS BUSH*S AND THE REPUKES WAR! THEY OWN IN ALL BY THEMSELVES!

[NativeTexan]

13. And they DID say it! But the difference is........

....between Bill, Hill, John and Stupid, there was only ONE that sent troops in. Only ONE that cost over 2400 American lives so far. Only ONE that after the greatest attack on the American mainland in history, ignored those who did it, and went after the wrong guy, for the wrong reasons, at the wrong time, with the wrong leadership, with the wrong plan, and with no idea what he was going to do after he broke the entire occupied country!

They ALL found out at the same time that there were no WMD. Only ONE had anything to answer for because of it!!

[blm]

17. And only ONE who made the decision after weapons inspectors were reporting

back CURRENT INTEL from ON THE GROUND In IRAQ for two months - and he decided to invade AFTER the ACCURATE INTEL was proving there was no cause.

Timmy knows this but WON'T say it, because he's in too deep with the BFEE.

[paulk]

15. but Bush didn't let the weapons inspectors finish their job

is that the Democrat's fault, too, Timmy?

what an asswipe

[rodeodance]

16. Has he been accountable?

.....WWD: Do you see that happening?

T.R.: No. There was resistance to the Sept. 11 commission, there was resistance to having an investigation into what went wrong with the weapons of mass destruction and lately it's been happening with Katrina.

WWD: The question of accountability and honesty has been personal for you. Last year, you played an important role in the Valerie Plame leak investigation. Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, told Patrick Fitzgerald he had learned of Plame's identity through you, which you said was not true. The New York Times said, "If the charges in the indictment are true, it is by no means clear why Mr. Libby would have told investigators and the grand jury in March of last year that Mr. Russert was his source, except that he might have believed that Mr. Russert and the other journalists involved would not testify." Does this seem like the right theory to you?

T.R.: I don't know. I haven't discussed it with Mr. Libby. All I know is what Patrick Fitzgerald has laid out, and that Mr. Libby had at least six or seven conversations with journalists before he talked to me. And I have said repeatedly, he'd called me to complain about something he saw on cable TV. I don't know what he was thinking or why he said what he said. But it doesn't add up. And I'll do what I have to do. The great thing about telling the truth is that you only have to tell the same story. You don't have to remember anything else.

[FrenchieCat]

18. Well Rumsfailed KNEW where there were........

remember? there in Tikrit, The south, the north, the west, the east....somewhat.....

And Colin POwell had the photos and maps and EVERYTHING....

[bullimiami]

19. misdirection to cover for his dream dictator.

fuck you tim.

[Cha]

20. Fuck you potato breath..

What about all the repukes who said there were mwd? And did those Dems say that or is timmy making up shite as he goes along?

[NoAmericanTaliban]

21. Pumpkin Head is nothing but a repuke shill

[Dr Fate]

23. When does Tim acknowledge HIS mistakes?

I seem to recall that he has presented lies as facts as much as Bush.

[blm]

25. Timmy was also leading the pack for the "God chose Bush to lead" 9-11 BS

that BushInc wanted spread around.