clean desk policy
Apr. 20th, 2004 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyThe release of Woodward's latest Book has lead to one of the most entertaining political semantic evasions since Clinton debated the meaning of the word "is" under oath:
Woodward says that Bush began planning the war in Iraq as early as November 2001. However, when the President was asked if he was planning war on May 23rd of 2003, he replied "I have no war plans on my desk ..." When Steve Inskeep interviewed Woodward concerning the book, this apparent disconnect was brought to Woodward's attention. Woodward replied that the President's desk in the oval office "never has anything on it, it's very clean." (I'm paraphrasing. I've no media player to get the actual wording.)
And in a related outrage:
While researching this on the web, I found the following byline in this article on America's bastion of Journalistic credibility, CBS:
Um... Economic extortion by Saudi Arabia, release of Classified material to a Foreign National, (according to Woodward, the war plan was classified Top Secret NOFORN, Prince Bandar is the Saudi Ambassador to the United States) and collusion in that extortion and engineering of a war by the Executive Branch in order to pull off an "October Surprise," are all somehow deemed "On the Plus Side" as long as they lead to a reduction in (artificially inflated) gas costs at the pump?
***** Late addition ****
The Bush administration denies everything, Woodward says "Woah now, son, that's not quite what I meant." (Again with the paraphrasing.) Steffan urges you, gentle reader, to not forget this, and remember that the proof is in the pudding. We will see what happens to the price of oil in September/October.
eeee-xcellent
Woodward says that Bush began planning the war in Iraq as early as November 2001. However, when the President was asked if he was planning war on May 23rd of 2003, he replied "I have no war plans on my desk ..." When Steve Inskeep interviewed Woodward concerning the book, this apparent disconnect was brought to Woodward's attention. Woodward replied that the President's desk in the oval office "never has anything on it, it's very clean." (I'm paraphrasing. I've no media player to get the actual wording.)
And in a related outrage:
While researching this on the web, I found the following byline in this article on America's bastion of Journalistic credibility, CBS:
On the plus side, Bob Woodward told Mike Wallace on CBS' "60 Minutes" that Saudi Prince Bandar has promised the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election to ensure the U.S. economy is strong on Election Day.
Woodward says that Bandar understood that economic conditions were key before a presidential election. "They're [oil prices] high. And they could go down very quickly. That's the Saudi pledge. Certainly over the summer, or as we get closer to the election, they could increase production several million barrels a day and the price would drop significantly," Woodward said. ...emphasis added
Um... Economic extortion by Saudi Arabia, release of Classified material to a Foreign National, (according to Woodward, the war plan was classified Top Secret NOFORN, Prince Bandar is the Saudi Ambassador to the United States) and collusion in that extortion and engineering of a war by the Executive Branch in order to pull off an "October Surprise," are all somehow deemed "On the Plus Side" as long as they lead to a reduction in (artificially inflated) gas costs at the pump?
***** Late addition ****
The Bush administration denies everything, Woodward says "Woah now, son, that's not quite what I meant." (Again with the paraphrasing.) Steffan urges you, gentle reader, to not forget this, and remember that the proof is in the pudding. We will see what happens to the price of oil in September/October.
eeee-xcellent
