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.'"
Why hasn't this fool been charged with leaking classified information yet?
The Rock in his name stands for the ones in his
head..another nitwit that knows it all...How the hell
can anyone say such bull...no body knows...but one
thing is sure..they know we are after them...and that
would never happen under the Democrats..they know that
POTUS won't back down...regardless of the media drumroll
to have him do it...that's why the Dems are screwed..and
the Senate will have Liebermann in it..as an Independent
and he can stick ti to his hypocrits..LOL..Jake
NewLand says America safer, smarter, and less polluted without Jay Rockefeller.
So what of their denouncing of Saddam in 1998 now?? This is pathetic and the American people have to see this...I hope.
What a f**n SOB. Saddam was paying all sorts of bribes to France, Russia, and China to get the sanctions lifted, so that he could proceed with his WMD and nuclear programs. The bribes he paid to politicians worldwide via Oil for Food were the most extensive fraud in history. I guess Jay is all right with that.
Story and link:
Sen.: Iraq Would Be Better With Saddam
Sept. 9, 2006(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.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/09/eveningnews/printable1990644.shtml
Look our favorite Sen. opened his yap
I do pray this becomes a Democratic talking point.
The Rockefellers have always been internationalists, and power means more to them than anything, even power by dictators who serve their interests.
Fortunately, Jay Rockefeller has never had the clout of Nelson, or David.
And the Rockerfellas are smart and we should belive what they say because!!!
(Uncle or daddy died screwing secretaty??)
I hope I live long enough to see every one of these two-faced, dim-witted, traitorous nin-com-poops eat their lying words.
Boy, the pranks Qusay would play!
Loved to gas the Kurds away.
But those rapes that wedding day--
Those were Uday's.
And you didn't dare complain
Or you'd gain a world of pain.
Mister, we could use a reign
Like that of Saddam Hussein.
Didn't need no polls to tell
Who would rule this living hell.
Gee, our old Iraq ran swell--
Those were the days!
CNN is also started to beat this drum. Saddam wasn't a threat. Saddam wasn't even our enemy, at least not until Bush invaded. Never mind 10 years of "death to America," assassination plots, $25,000 per head for suicide bombers (those are just jooooos).
This is truly disgusting.
By they're logic we should never have destroyed the Third Reich because they were a counter balance against the Soviet Union.
Rather THEIR logic
Let's not forget that this is the guy whose grandfather made the deal with the Wahhabist Saud family that made them among the wealthiest families on earth and enabled them to bankroll jihadists throughout the world.
There has been some debate over how "imminent" a threat Iraq poses. I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat,, but I also believe that after September 11, that question is increasingly outdated. It is in the nature of these weapons, and the way they are targeted against civilian populations, that documented capability and demonstrated intent may be the only warning we get. To insist on further evidence could put some of our fellow Americans at risk. Can we afford to take that chance? We cannot!
Joe Kennedy and a lot of prewar Democrats made precisely this argument.
They were then replaced by Democrats who argued we shouldn't oppose anything Joe Stalin wanted to do because he was a counter balance against fascism.
Democrats. The reliable traitors.
They value order over liberty.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
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