Little Georgie Steph was in rare form today, so hoping to play "gotcha" with McCain and Dodd on WMD not being found.
McCain said: Remember, victory in the Iraq war reignites the possibility that President Bush might lead us to finding peace for Israel, and going to war against Iraq is what made this current peace initiative possible.
Georgie Steph says to McCain you predicted flatly we would find WMDs. whadaya say now?
McCain says, the day I saw those 9 year old boys released from prison, was the day I saw our reasons for going war in Iraq completely validated. His point was, whether we ever find WMDs, this war was justified.
Dodd says; I supported the war, but a full explanataion of why we haven't found WMDs. will have to be investigated. But sounding very supportive of Bush, Dodd says Iraq had WMDs, used em, and would have the capacity to use em again, and it was a justified war. But we are going to have to get the answers why WMD haven't been found.
Clearly Dodd, who freely admitted voting for the war, said more than once, that the senate needs to investigate whether or not intelligence was politicized by Rumsfeld.
McCain won't commit whether Intelligence was politicized about WMDs. He says he doesn't know, he's not on the Intelligence Committee, but He believed Saddam had those weapons. "There was ample evidence" McCain said, and anyone who makes the charge that this administration politicized intelligence in order to justify going to war, must prove it.
Wow, little Georgie is trying soooo hard to get the two senators to accuse the CIA and Rumsfeld of manufacturing political intelligence about WMDs. No soap. Regardless of the pre-war intelligence, says Dodd, the war was justified. And I for one am going to remember that Senator Dodd said that.
Georgie, practically sneering asks; Did Saddam really present an imminent threat to the United States? Huh???what you say senators????
Dodd says "yes" (in many more words), and McCain says (his condescending "you're a jackass Georgie" tone), "so what if we don't find any WMDs, what's to say if Saddam had been left in place, if we hadn't gone to war, that Saddam wouldn't have gotten more, like he did in the past? And use them? Both senators unequivically answered Georgie in the affirmative. YES, WE WENT TO WAR BECAUSE SADDAM PRESENTED AN IMMINENT DANGER TO THE USA. I'm remembering that one too.