{"id":21767,"date":"2004-01-09T07:15:15","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T12:15:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-01-16T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:45:06","slug":"carnegie_foundation_leftist_not_non_partisan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/01\/09\/carnegie_foundation_leftist_not_non_partisan\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Foundation: Leftist, Not “Non-Partisan”"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Bush administration officials exaggerated the threats from Iraq\u2019s weapons of mass destruction and failed to uncover any links between Hussein and al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, says a private, nonpartisan [group.]” Which is flat-out BS, folks. This is the well-known hyper-left-wing Carnegie Foundation. It\u2019s one of these, just like the Ford Foundation, these people were originally endowed by great conservative families, and they\u2019ve been taken over by the left. This notion that the left doesn\u2019t have a think thank out there like they don\u2019t have a talk radio network, it\u2019s all a bunch of BS. What is NPR, what\u2019s the mainstream press and television to begin with? So they\u2019re not on radio and they\u2019re not the going to succeed with the way they\u2019re trying it anyway. But to think that they don\u2019t have a presence. And here\u2019s a classic example. This Carnegie Foundation is being portrayed as a nonpartisan research organization. That\u2019s absolutely a lie. These people are some of the biggest extreme leftists you can find.<\/p>\n

“The study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace…” What the hell would it be but a bunch of lefties? It might as well say the Carnegie Endowment for International Surrender because that\u2019s what these people would do to get peace. They\u2019re pure leftists. “The study states that administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq\u2019s weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile program by treating possibilities as fact and misrepresenting inspectors\u2019 findings in ways that turn threats from minor to dire. The three Carnegie Endowment researchers who produced the report charged that U.S. officials politicized intelligence to fit their arguments for a war to oust Hussein. ‘We believe that in 2002 the intelligence process began to be politicized,\u2019 said Carnegie\u2019s president Jessica Matthews. ‘They were under intense pressure to produce something that buttresses policymakers\u2019 beliefs. This is an old story in government. This just happens to be an egregious case with extreme consequences, namely, going to war.'”<\/p>\n

The other two researchers are Joseph Sirincioni, director of the Nonproliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment and George Perkovitch, vice president for studies at Carnegie, who authored a book on India\u2019s nuclear bomb. Now, okay, let\u2019s just take this at face value. Let\u2019s not even argue with what they say just for the fun of it, folks, just for the fun of it. Because if we take this story at face value, we also would have to include in this story that Bill Clinton advanced the exact same, phony, artificial data and did it for political reasons. His were to hide what was going on with Monica Lewinsky, grand jury testimony, and the impeachment to distract people from that, but we got the speech from Bill Clinton December 16th, 1988, it reads almost identically to everything George Bush ever said. And then we can go back to Bush 41 and we can find other politicians in the middle. We can find Democrats who voted for all this. What about the members of the Senate intelligence committee and the House intelligence committees. You think they had a look at this data and believed it, too? But they did. We know Clinton did. We know Tom Daschle couldn\u2019t wait to sign on to the resolution in the Senate after Clinton spoke on December 16th authorizing the use of force.<\/p>\n

But that is not all, my friends. Because Bill Clinton himself, as recently as last October, mentioned to the prime minister of Portugal that he believed that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that they had to be stopped, that the war was justified. This story has come out today in support of all of this. So they have to indict Bill Clinton, not only from 1998, have to indict Bill Clinton from last October, I guess this guy from Portugal, I bet they\u2019ve got a Fort Marcy Park over there that he\u2019s going to have to keep a sharp eye on because now he\u2019s outed Clinton because Clinton at the same time was running around suggesting that this was unnecessary, that Bush had gone too far, he\u2019s rallying all these Europeans against us. But he privately tells the minister of Portugal, I think it\u2019s Portugal. Having trouble finding the exact story here. Yes Portugal, I knew I was right. Even when I think I\u2019m wrong I\u2019m right. In Portugal, he told the guy there that there were weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

So this Carnegie thing is purely political, it\u2019s purely partisan, it\u2019s timed specifically to do damage to Bush. It isn\u2019t going to do one bit of damage to Bush, not one. And for these people to be called nonpartisan is one of the biggest shams that has ever been put over the American population, and they are not going to get away with it.<\/p>\n

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