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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/04/2006 : 16:57:01
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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14012534.htm
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A State Department-commissioned poll taken days before January's Palestinian elections warned U.S. policymakers that the militant Islamic group Hamas was in a position to win.
Nevertheless, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after the election that they had no advance indication of a major Hamas triumph.
The poll found that Hamas had been gaining support in previous months and was running neck-and-neck with the secular Fatah party - 30 percent vs. 32 percent - among likely voters. It was distributed within the State Department on Jan. 19, six days before the elections.
How is this person the Sec of State?
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 03/04/2006 : 17:31:41 [Permalink]
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Dude-- are you serious? This is but one in a string of examples where the administration had evidence of X, acted as though -X, and then, when X happened, publically claimed that they had no idea of X. A few examples include:
The problems with Katrina;
Iraq's lack of WMDs;
The local roots of the Iraqi civil unrest;
Using planes as weapons;
Problems with the new plan for prescripiton drug benefits;
and so on and so on and so on.
Just substitute any of the above for X and it's par for the course!
Condie's par for the course when it comes to this sort of thing. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 03/04/2006 : 17:40:45 [Permalink]
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Cune said:
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This is but one in a string of examples where the administration had evidence of X, acted as though -X, and then, when X happened, publically claimed that they had no idea of X.
I know. For some reason it still quasi-shocks me when they do it though.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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