Reply #1: Interesting, but I think this story may hurt the Democrats more than the Republicans [View All]

[karynnj]

This is a UK newspaper. I don't think it will be covered in MSM here before the election. Remember that the vast majority of American people have no idea what the DSM said and they got some coverage in papers like the NYT. I think the only way it can ever by uncovered is if we have a President completely not involved. One person once told me he thought that the reason that Iran/Contra did not lead to a full blown impeachment and Lewinsky et al did, is that Iran/Contra showed the US as an outlaw nation and Lewinsky showed the President to be a man of bad character. One challenges directly what we want to believe about out country.

If this article has impeccable backup, which we don't know at this point, and if it was well covered here - the danger is that that will happen in the general election. None of the top Republican candidates can be linked to this unless there is some unknown connection no one has remotely implied with McCain. Huckabee and Romney (:vomit:) were not in any place they could have been involved. The same could be said for Obama and Edwards.

Look at these comments:
"Edmonds said: “I heard at least three transactions like this over a period of 2½ years. There are almost certainly more.”
The end point of Edmonds' tapes is 2002. Even if they end in December, that goes back to 2000.

and

" A backlog of tapes had built up, dating back to 1997, which were needed for an FBI investigation into links between the Turks and Pakistani, Israeli and US targets. Before she left the FBI in 2002 she heard evidence that pointed to money laundering, drug imports and attempts to acquire nuclear and conventional weapons technology."
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These action did not begin in 2001, when W took office. It is also possible the story is either not the whole truth or it is not true. I would be cautious in believing it. One reason to not believe it completely is that Wilson is backing HRC.