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believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11th that question is increasingly outdated.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...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
He needs to be on a camel.
I agree. Especially when you consider freepers who make fun of him because of his father.... he did a much better job of holding Rockefellers feet to the fire yesterday than Russert did with the coward dean.
And don't forget that Rockefeller is the person behind the Dem's Intel Committee memo that Sean Hannity broke the story on a couple of years ago. That memo said that the Dem's had one shot at using the Intel committee investigation against the Republicans/President Bush. The trigger for that shot was pulled 2 weeks ago when Harry Reid demanded the "closed session."
Peach is correct, it is time to start flushing out the traitors.
Ping to this article.
So, after Rocky-feller tells the Syrians the U.S. is going to attack Iraq, the Syrians call Saddam and say, "Hey, you might want to store some stuff with us for a while."
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Typical of the Rockefellers.
Just don't say that Maxwell House is his coffee of choice or he'll REALLY get mad.
he carefully worded it:
"...that it was my view that..."
still outrageous, but probably gets him off the hook.
Good question. Sicne he was hardly ever in DC, perhaps there is an official record of his travel. I always thought, or "felt" as dems say, that he was just blowing smoke, and "speaking to world leaders" was all in his imagination, or at some charity function for the Heinz foundation.
You know, everyone that posts at FR and who wants to, should donate to a fund and FR produce commercials to make this type of information more widely known. I do not know what the cost of commercials are nor the price of air time.
No, that's Teddy "the lifeguard" Kennedy's belly sticking up in the air...
We must teach America about checks and balances and how the constitution vests the power to declare and finance war in the Congress. Not a bad idea, also, to say that the War Powers Act underlined that after Vietnam. Then just list all of the times we woke up to the news that America was bombing some people we had never heard about during the Clinton admin. The contrast in democratic process is very great.
You know, everyone that posts at FR and who wants to, should donate to a fund and FR produce commercials to make this type of information more widely known. I do not know what the cost of commercials are nor the price of air time.
He went in January. Wilson went in February. Remember the memo!!
Of course this public official has no party affiliation......right?
Well, I'll be hornswoggled, he's a Democrat.....*feigning surprise*
I'm speed dialing him - number busy.
Maybe Rocky's wife wanted him out of the house, too! LOL.
Traitor. Absolute Traitor if he tipped them off.
If this guy went on his personal decision and undermined the US position in the Middle East in the run up to the Iraq war he is a traitor!
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