Countdown Tuesday: Faking the Case?
Posted: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Weapons of Mass Deception?:
If you scoff at the thought that the American government would actually try to create a forged document to establish a link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks, and thus an excuse to invade Iraq... Some snippets of history to consider as we begin our fifth story -- our cable-exclusive interview with the author reporting this, in his new book, Ron Suskind. Fake government documents created by the Soviets were used against President Reagan, and President Carter, and President Eisenhower, and Nelson Rockefeller, and Secretary of Defense Weinberger, and the Police Commissioner of New York, and the U-S Ambassador to the United Nations. The French faked their own government documents in the Dreyfus case, and forged Napoleon's signature to use against President Madison. There were the Sisson Documents, the Tanaka Memorandum, and most pertinent to **our** purposes here: the Italian Niger Yellowcake Uranium Forgery.
Worse Than Watergate:
It is akin to Mr. Bush's trip to Vietnam, where he said the lesson of the American experience there was, "don't quit." The lesson that Vice-President Cheney learned from the Nixon White House... according to Ron Suskind's book, "The Way of the World": That Cheney viewed Watergate as a failure... not because of the break-in or the cover-up or the attempt to subvert the Constititution... But because the President had been over-briefed... and therefore lacked adequate deniability. So Cheney tried to establish deniability for this President.eBut in our fourth story on the Countdown, the book's assertions would obviously destroy deniability for the President...and would constitute criminal wrongdoing, worse than Watergate.ODDBALL: Behold: Paris Hilton responds.
McMeltdown:
Nothing like having one word sum up the entire day on the campaign trail. For John McCain, that word was "meltdown." Yes, the vernacular kind. And, the literal kind, too. Our third story tonight, John McCain goes nuclear.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Brisbane, Australia Airport Security, Bill-O and John McCain vie for tonight's top honors.
Miss Buffalo Chip: And now a very different kind of election, for which a McCain is a leading contender. As the women of wrestling were throwing each other down in the main amphitheatre at an event called "Ringin' Wet and Wild"... America's presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his wife were gearing up for a tribute-to-vets speech at The Wolfman Jack Memorial Stage... and Mrs. McCain's unexpected nomination as a contestant in the Bikers' Beauty Paegant. Our number one story on the Countdown --
