Question for DU Scholars---------

[carolinalady]

I am no good at saving stuff (any stuff), so I wonder. All the articles I have seen on here, there are alot of people who have valuable info and should be interviewed by the intelligence committee. Has anyone thought of compiling a list and sending it to our Dem members in hopes they may be called to testify?

[mb7588a]

1. why not just subpoena the jerks in charge....

...and ask 'em directtly?

Wolfowitz
Rumsfeld
Pearle
Feith
Rice
Powell
Tenet
Bolton
Hadley
Myers
Miers
Gonzales
Chertoff
Ridge
Bolten (OMB)
Matalin
Fleischer
McClellan
Hughes
Gerson ("Before writing a major speech, Gerson captures presidential thoughts on a small, handheld Sony tape recorder." - http://www.usatoday.com/life/2001-04-11-bush-speechwriter.htm)
Bartlett
Calio
Wilkinson
Hannah
O'Neill
Clarke
Shinseki
Beers
Lindsey
Zinni
Blair
Card
Rove
Libby
Any person in charge of contracts at State, and DoD (especially Army Corps of Engineers)
All leaders of ("Coalition of the Willing"): Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.
Every member of the media that petaled lies
And those, who in my opinion, are most responsible for our current involvement in Iraq...Every member of Congress who voted FOR the war

that's off teh top of my head

[Journeyman]

2. Unfortunately, it's as I tell people about college degrees. . .

Not everyone with a college degree is educated, and some without a degree have far more knowledge than most of those who do have one, but unless you're a published author or attain some other form of societally recognized authority, you'll have a harder time convincing people of your education without a sheepskin than with one.

So though there are ample numbers of people on this board adequately prepared to elucidate on any of a number of current topics, convincing society as a whole of their value becomes a question for debate. Put politely, there are quite a number of people on this board who are far more educated and knowledgeable than Dr. Condoleeza Rice (and some of those DUers have at best a formal high school education), but regretably Dr. Rice has the degrees and the formal position to command the attention of the intelligence committee -- warranted or (as in her case) not.

I wish the committee would listen to more citizens. I wish Congress as a whole would listen to more citizens. But in the climate of the times I don't see it happening soon.

[carolinalady]

3. thanks, good night all.