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In reply to the discussion: Know your BFEE: Siegelman Judge is a big-time War Profiteer [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)13. Democrats, the Truth Still Matters!
Robert Parry noticed something was wrong, way back during Iran-Contra...
Democrats, the Truth Still Matters!
By Robert Parry
(First Posted May 11, 2006)
EXCERPT...
My book, Secrecy & Privilege, opens with a scene in spring 1994 when a guest at a White House social event asks Bill Clinton why his administration didnt pursue unresolved scandals from the Reagan-Bush era, such as the Iraqgate secret support for Saddam Husseins government and clandestine arms shipments to Iran.
Clinton responds to the questions from the guest, documentary filmmaker Stuart Sender, by saying, in effect, that those historical questions had to take a back seat to Clintons domestic agenda and his desire for greater bipartisanship with the Republicans.
Clinton didnt feel that it was a good idea to pursue these investigations because he was going to have to work with these people, Sender told me in an interview. He was going to try to work with these guys, compromise, build working relationships.
Clintons relatively low regard for the value of truth and accountability is relevant again today because other centrist Democrats are urging their party to give George W. Bushs administration a similar pass if the Democrats win one or both houses of Congress.
Reporting about a booklet issued by the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank of the Democratic Leadership Council, the Washington Post wrote, these centrist Democrats warned against calls to launch investigations into past administration decisions if Democrats gain control of the House or Senate in the November elections.
These Democrats also called on the party to reject its non-interventionist left wing, which opposed the Iraq War and which wants Bush held accountable for the deceptions that surrounded it.
CONTINUED...
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html
Thank you for being one for whom the truth matters, rhett o rick.
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K&R n/t-I'm getting this belongs in Creative Speculation attacks, brother, on another GD thread.
bobthedrummer
Dec 2012
#2
Dude, you posted a link to a conspiracy site run by an asshat extreme anti-Semite...
SidDithers
Dec 2012
#21
Here's a good link: Elena Kagan and her role as a willing accomplice in Siegelman prosecution
Octafish
Dec 2012
#26
Never heard of him until you brought him up. BTW, why do you crap on my posts so much?
Octafish
Dec 2012
#31
I think I was crapping on bob's post, for using Boyden's web site as a source...
SidDithers
Dec 2012
#33
Where's your contribution, siddithers? NO WHERE are you critical of the GOP persecution of Siegelman
Octafish
Dec 2012
#44
Oh, and your buddy bob just got hidden for linking to whale.to and The Church of Scientology...
SidDithers
Dec 2012
#48