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Senator Jay Rockefeller Gave Syria Advance Warning Of Iraq War Intentions! (FNS Transcript)
Fox News Sunday (Transcript) ^ | 14 November 2005

Posted on 11/14/2005 11:13:59 AM PST by Stultis

WALLACE: ...in October of 2002 in which you authorized the use of force, you went further than the president ever did. Let's watch:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROCKEFELLER: I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11th that question is increasingly outdated.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: Now, the president never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller?

ROCKEFELLER: No. 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."

WALLACE: Senator, you're quite right. You didn't get the presidential daily brief or the senior executive intelligence brief. You got the national intelligence estimate.

But the Silberman commission, a presidential commission that looked into this, did get copies of those briefs, and they say that they were, if anything, even more alarmist, even less nuanced, than the intelligence you saw...

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To: NativeNewYorker
And he IS the senior Dim on the Senate intel committee, so it's not as if he was "just guessing", and the folks in Syria & Co. would know that.

Exactly. Worthy of repeating and emphasizing.

Also, anyone know exactly when Bush first made public his intentions to hold Saddam accountable? Was it after January '02?

21 posted on 11/14/2005 11:25:13 AM PST by Stultis
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To: Stultis

bttt


22 posted on 11/14/2005 11:27:22 AM PST by Rosemont
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To: Stultis

Sounds to me like Chris is not a chip off his old man's block. Which is good. We may have an intellegient member of the media who acually asks forecful questions of idiots on the left?


23 posted on 11/14/2005 11:27:26 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Stultis
ROCKEFELLER: Chris, it is always the same conversation. You know, it was not the Congress that sent 135,000 or 150,000 troops to...

WALLACE: But you voted, sir, and aren't you responsible for your vote?

ROCKEFELLER: No. I'm...

WALLACE: You're not?

ROCKEFELLER: No. I'm responsible for my vote, but I'd appreciate it if you'd get serious about this subject, with all due respect. We authorized him to continue working with the United Nations, and then if that failed, authorized him to use force to enforce the sanctions.

What a liar...and a spinner...Jay is a disgrace and traitor....

24 posted on 11/14/2005 11:29:49 AM PST by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: Stultis

ROCKEFELLER: No. I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times.

Too bad you NEVER ANSWERED THAT QUESTION.


25 posted on 11/14/2005 11:29:56 AM PST by TonyXL
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To: smith288

Fast on the draw...


26 posted on 11/14/2005 11:30:12 AM PST by Stultis
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To: prairiebreeze; onyx; ohioWfan; Texasforever; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; mrs tiggywinkle; EllaMinnow; ...

Hey ... nothing like running to the enemy and giving them the heads up

I WANT THIS MAN UNDER AN INVESTIGATION NOW!!!




Sorry for any double pings


27 posted on 11/14/2005 11:30:32 AM PST by Mo1
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To: Stultis

Bookmark for later.


28 posted on 11/14/2005 11:31:03 AM PST by rockthecasbah (4th down & a mile to go. 1:32 left in the 4th quarter. Down by 3 at Notre Dame. No problem!)
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To: NativeNewYorker
And he IS the senior Dim on the Senate intel committee, so it's not as if he was "just guessing", and the folks in Syria & Co. would know that.

BINGO!!!

29 posted on 11/14/2005 11:32:39 AM PST by Mo1
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To: Stultis

bttt


30 posted on 11/14/2005 11:32:57 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: smith288

Is that a roasted turkey on the bottom right?!


31 posted on 11/14/2005 11:33:01 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Stultis

Great Catch,
If he knew the President had already intended to go to war then he just committed Treason. Where's the Media on this one?


32 posted on 11/14/2005 11:33:47 AM PST by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: Mo1

If this isn't treason, I don't know what is.

Imagine telling foreign heads of states, some of whom are NOT friendly to this country, what our military plans are.

We need a plan. An activist plan. Petitions. Phone calls. Letters.

I'm serious as a heart attack. This can not stand.


33 posted on 11/14/2005 11:34:55 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: tobyhill
Where's the Media on this one?

Still propping up Valerie Plame.

34 posted on 11/14/2005 11:35:33 AM PST by capydick (or)
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To: Stultis

What I want to know is, why are the senators and congresmen AND the President that WE put in office not standing up and shouting this BS to the heavens to embarass twits like Rockefeller?

Once again our spineless reps are sitting on their collective arses while the idiot party runs roughshod over them.


35 posted on 11/14/2005 11:35:48 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT (3-7-77 (No that's not a Date))
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To: omega4179
Rockefeller went to West Virginia, a poor state, and spread his money around. In other words, he bought his seat. He is not the sharpest tack in the box, which is why he is on the intelligence committee.
36 posted on 11/14/2005 11:36:45 AM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Mo1

umm that would be treason.

and now we know who helped get the chmeicals nukes out of iraq.

the rockefeller curse on america continues.


37 posted on 11/14/2005 11:39:02 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: capydick

I think Wilson is just pimping his wife to all the media and as for Miller's case it was just experimental.


38 posted on 11/14/2005 11:39:34 AM PST by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Careful - there are a lot of morons at FR who think you have to be loading the weapons of our enemies for it to be treason. (I would add a sarcasm tag, but unfortunately it's true.)


39 posted on 11/14/2005 11:40:04 AM PST by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: Mount Athos

He'd doing his job. period. The media is SUPPOSED to do this. Not pick sides. Asking Rockefeller this line of questioning doesn't make him an agent of the GOP


40 posted on 11/14/2005 11:40:15 AM PST by bubman
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