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.'"
He would "feel" pain as a good dem should but wouldn't understand the consequence of doing it.
Did he say it or LEAK it?!? ;)
I wonder what Great Grandpa John D would have thought about Jay and his liberalism?
I always knew that money can't buy happiness, and now I know it also can't buy intelligence .... especially when the money is inherited.
Did he note that, if Saddam were still in power, we would still be enforcing no-fly zones and sanctions? And having to protect Bush 41 from potential Iraqi assassins?
And, tell me, did Senator Rockefeller vote for the Iraq Liberation Act which called for "regime change"...in 1998?!
What an utter partisan moron.
honestly I'm hoping for a senate wide jihad... maybe if a couple of libs get fragged out, then they'll believe it's the real deal...
Nah!!! they'll blame the massacre on Bush.. and how he's so mean to the jihadist that they were forced to kill ....
there is NO WAY that they'll ever think that America is right and that the jihadist are evil...
Gawd we're stuck with such pussies in this country...can't they all move to "heaven" France... where all the enlightened people live...
I believe it did in fact vote for it.
He's whip his ass and disinherit him. 8-)
Traitor.
But how safe is America with Jaybird Rockefeller in the senate?
"He should be picked up and stuffed in a cell for the duration (which is what President Wilson would have done with this schmuck."
I want to do that with ALL dims!!!
LLS
I am guessing he is not up for re-election this time.
2010 I think..maybe Im wrong.
any links to video???
Huh. Who was in power in Iraq when 911 happened?
America would be safer with Rockefeller out of power.
We would be a lot safer with Rockefeller out of power.
Whoops! Beat me to it!
Needs to be REPEATED over and over!
To His Face!
Poor West Virginia! A carpetbagger moving in and buying a Senate seat.
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