• What did Jay Rockefeller say ?!?

    Someone wrote to me this evening about Jay Rockefeller on FOX News Sunday saying that he had traveled to the Middle East in January of 2002 and warned leaders that President Bush’s was dead set on invading Iraq. I checked my notes, and I could not be clear what date I had scribbled, but I know I had assumed it to be 2003, which would have been no big deal. So I didn’t include it in the review.

    The reader insists it was 2002, and it very well could have been. FOX doesn’t have the transcript..

    If Rockefeller was gallivanting around the Middle East in January of 2002, four months after 9-11, and spouting this stuff, it would have made the reports. And why would he wait until now, a Sunday morning, to tell anyone?

    It might be that he was getting hammered by Chris Wallace and was driven off point.

    We’ll see…
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    Update (from Powerline):

    SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The – I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I’ll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq – that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11. Now, the intelligence that they had and the intelligence that we had were probably different. We didn’t get the Presidential Daily Briefs. We got only a finished product, a finished product, a consensual view of the intelligence community, which does not allow for agencies like in the case of the aluminum tubes, the Department of Energy said these aren’t thick enough to handle nuclear power. They left that out and went ahead with they have aluminum tubes and they’re going to develop nuclear power.

    Unbelievable.

  • Sunday Night NFL

    Hines Ward tied John Stallworth’s Steelers career receptions record with 837, on a touchdown pass from Charlie Batch. Batch is not per se throwing better, but he’s throwing them where Ward can catch them. Then the refs called it back after review… yeah, Ward didn’t have both feet on the ground in bounds.

    The Steelers were stopped on both third down and fourth down.

  • Today’s music.

    I listened to some George Auric, on of “Les Six” – with Honegger, Milhaud, and Poulenc – this afternoon, and Prokofiev’s Ivan the Terrible. And I listened to World of the Theater Pipe Organ on WMKV.s