al Qaeda – NorthCoastBlog.com https://www.northcoastblog.com Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:07:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.14 Hardball . . . finally https://www.northcoastblog.com/2005/11/17/hardball-finally/ Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:11:51 +0000 https://www.northcoastblog.com/2005/11/17/hardball-finally/ While it’s coming several years too late, Chris Matthews deserves credit for taking on the Bush administration and pointing out how the pre-war statements of Bush, Cheney and other senior officials were not consistent with the caveats being expressed by the CIA and our own government officials.

Tonight, after Dick Cheney’s ridiculous rant against war critics, Hardball replayed Dick Cheney’s statements over the past several years that were clearly untrue, AND which ignored caveats expressed AT THE TIME by our own intelligence officials. How can anyone argue that on issues like nuclear weapons and the alleged link to al Qaeda that these guys didn’t mislead the country?

I just wish that Matthews and other members of the press would have been this diligent and bold in 2002 and 2003.

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