Harry Reid Didn’t Read Prewar Intel Report

Human Events ^ | Nov 18, 2005 | by Amanda B. Carpenter

[edcoil]

Our elected representatives don't read 90% of what they vote on.

[orionblamblam]

D'oh!!

[Echo Talon]

dog ate his homework...

[JeeperFreeper]

Frist should call a press confernce and tell this. Frist won't because he's a very poor Senate leader, much more concerned with rapport with Dems than standing up for conservative principles or the truth. Politicians of both parties are slugs. The only time they seem to be motivated is if some pet pork project is threatened.

[Blogger]

CAN he read?

[RegulatorCountry]

Dims are trying to create an "out" for themselves, but are also making themselves look like complete and utter idiots in the process.

If you don't know what you're voting for, how on earth do you decide which way to vote? You can't tell me these twits just don't have the time to read 92 pages, in order to determine whether to go to war or not.

[kellynla]

The entire 'Rat party has about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine.

They hate the military and they are about as unpatriotic as anyone could be.
nuff said...

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[nuffsenuff]

They based their votes on the years and years of intelligence they had seen...

The Big Lie is "Bush lied". Period.

[JRjr]

Public education....

[DustyMoment]

Harry Reid Didn’t Read Prewar Intel Report

"Jiminy, Toto, this would be a surprise to whom?"

[wouldntbprudent]

that Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet prepared in 2002 at the request of Senate Democrats specifically so Congress would have up-to-date intelligence as it debated whether to authorize the Iraq war.

The whole Rat "we want to debate another resolution" was 100% a political stunt designed to provide cover for the Rats' lethal weakness on national security and to provide some half-way strong-sounding soundbites and campaign ad snippets.

It was political kabuki and now they are admitting as much.

[wouldntbprudent]

Great idea. I want to see the Bushies hitting back hard.

[HawaiianGecko]

	“Senator Reid gave his floor statement on the Iraq resolution on October 9, 2002, and the reasoning he gave for voting for the resolution does not have much to do with current assessments of the intelligence on WMD. Members got their information on Iraq from lots of sources in the months leading up to the October 2002 vote. The most important sources of information were White House/Administration officials, including the President, Vice President, and Secretary of Defense.” I haven't seen an argument this weak since coaching a freshman high school debate team. It doesn't make any sense at all. Why would the White House lie when the NIE was circulating throughout congress? Is Hairy Reid making it sound like he got bad information from the White House that contradicted the NIE and only if he would have read the NIE he would have voted NO?

 

 

[Peach]

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.), who is leading a spurious Democratic campaign that alleges President Bush misled the country into war, admitted last week that he did not read the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs that Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet prepared in 2002 at the request of Senate Democrats specifically so Congress would have up-to-date intelligence as it debated whether to authorize the Iraq war.

WHAT?

And Rockefeller admitted on national television that only about 6 Senators read the entire report. OMG.

And Republicans are going to use this information how? To convince people that Democrats don't know what the heck they are talking about, I hope.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

Your post is dead nuts on target. The Democrats are repulsive disingenuous phonies.

semper fi.
alpha company, 1/3
'68-'69

[RobbyS]

He didn't read it.

[wingnutx]

bump

[HawaiianGecko]

	Reid has his proverbial teat in the wringer if someone with a microphone want to take the time to explain it. He cannot say he based his decision on intelligence reports, the same intelligence reports the President based his decision upon. He has to use the smoke screen that he based his decision on what the President said and that the President lied to him. Not reading the NIE is a huge fiduciary error!  If I were an anti-war Democrat from Nevada, and read what Reid's office is saying, I'd be out this afternoon getting signatures for his recall election.

 

 

[calrighty]

Semper Fi, and BTTT