Posted on 09/09/2006 3:35:56 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous
Edited on 09/09/2006 4:55:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
(CBS) When the Senate Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of its findings this past week, the Republican chairman of the committee, Pat Roberts, left town without doing interviews, calling the report a rehash of unfounded partisan allegations.
Its statements like this one, made Feb. 5, 2003, by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell that have become so controversial, implying Iraq was linked to terror attacks.
"Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associated collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda lieutenants," Powell said.
But after 2 1/2 years of reviewing pre-war intelligence behind closed doors, the lead Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.), who voted for the Iraq War, says the Bush administration pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.
"The absolute cynical manipulation, deliberately cynical manipulation, to shape American public opinion and 69 percent of the people, at that time, it worked, they said 'we want to go to war,'" Rockefeller told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. "Including me. The difference is after I began to learn about some of that intelligence I went down to the Senate floor and I said 'my vote was wrong.'"
Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq — even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.
He said he sees that as a better scenario, and a safer scenario, "because it is called the 'war on terror.'"
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At least Jay Z contributes something to society.
He employs people at legitimate jobs, pays taxes, and has a super hot girlfriend.
The other Jay has lived off the govt teat most of his adult life.
I put a thread up :0)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698670/posts
I spoke to a lib today, something I rarely do, and according to her that is still being done to the Iraqis, only by Americans, not Saddam. Those people are pathetic.
If he's serious then Senator Rockefeller needs to go on TV and tell his constituents that he wants Saddam back in power in Iraq. What a ridiculous terrorist appeaser he is.
Keep up the good work, Jay. The GOP's looking better to voters with every passing day.
Isn't this the bozo that leaked data on secret spy satellite programs Justice Department Probing Durbin, Rockefeller CIA Leak , planned to release classified data at a strategically-advantageous moment during 2004 presidential campaign Rockefeller Implicated in Plot to Leak Secret War Intel , and ran around the middle east telling every country that would listen that "Bush was going to invade Iraq" immediately before the 2003 invasion, thereby giving Saddam time to remove WMD?
Listen, if Rockerfeller isn't any more competent than to let someone "pull the wool over his eyes" then he should not be in office. What ever happened to being responsible enough to verify things >>before<< you act on them? He cannot blame Bush without making himself look like an incompetent idiot, which he is.
Well c'mon all you dhimmis
Gather round!
The 2006 election is goin' down.
Amd so are you, you B@ST@RD TRAITORS!!!
Amen to both of your observations..
OK ... Make the libs say let Saddam off the hook and let him back in power we will retreat. Lets see how America feels about that...
You know, this is exactly what the leaked memo from democrats said they would do two years ago. Force republicans to do a report, work in a bipartisan way as long as possible, and then when necessary put the screws to the committee and write a biased report. In this case, rather than adding a minority report, they managed to get two republicans to support their view, so it became majority.
I would note that if the dems had a minority report, it would have still gotten the same coverage. the republican minority report got no coverage.
Maybe Libs like the "stability" Saddam brought to Iraq because they desire to give America the same "stability."
It is time to call for his resignation. The man is not fit to be in a leadership position in the Federal Government of the United States, if his positions and opinions simply do not vary at all from those of the deadliest enemies the U.S. and for that matter the entier Western World, have faced since the end of the Cold War. Rockefeller must go, now.
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002 | Source
R-coke-feller, how appropriate lol.
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