``They have three million pieces of paper,'' rockefeller (D-Baghdad) said. ``But it is a sham. There is nothing to point to any weapons of any kind.''
STFU, jay.
Posted on 03/27/2004 8:32:42 AM PST by Pikamax
W. Va. Sen. on Iraq: 'My Vote Was Wrong'
Saturday March 27, 2004 3:31 PM
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller regrets his vote to authorize a war against Iraq.
``If I had known then what I know now, I would have voted against it,'' Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said Friday. ``I have admitted that my vote was wrong.''
The Democratic-led Senate approved the war resolution 77-23 on Oct. 11, 2002, one day after the U.S. House approved a similar resolution.
``The decision got made before there was a whole bunch of intelligence,'' said Rockefeller, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. ``I think the intelligence was shaped. And I think the interpretation of the intelligence was shaped.
``We had this feeling we could be welcomed as liberators. Americans don't know history, geography, ethnicity. The administration had no idea of what they were getting into in Iraq. We are not internationalists. We border on being isolationists. We don't know anything about the Middle East.''
Rockefeller also said he is disturbed at the failure to involve the United Nations in creating a new government and finding peace in Iraq.
Many of the senator's feelings were strengthened last week during a weeklong trip with four other Democratic senators to Iraq and four other Middle Eastern nations.
In Iraq, the senators visited a team of researchers investigating the presence of weapons of mass destruction.
``They have three million pieces of paper,'' Rockefeller said. ``But it is a sham. There is nothing to point to any weapons of any kind.''
Rockefeller said the influence of terrorist groups, such as al-Qaida, is growing in Iraq. He estimated that only about 5 percent of insurgents in Iraq are recent arrivals, with the rest ``homegrown.''
He is not sure what he voted on or if he voted intelligently.
He will take steps to right his vote or maybe he will not take steps.
Rockerfella states he will vote again today, tomorrow, the day after....... and the day......... on all sides of the issue.
He will then donate his vast fortune to most needy terrorists around the world.
After getting down on both knees to beg France for a white flag, he will invite terrorists to take over West Virginia.
He is a piece of sh** !
The Left never envisioned how the attack on Iraq wouldn't end up in a serious political defeat for Bush.
Note the failed predictions. They overestimated Saddam's military, underestimated W, overestimated Arab solidarity, underestimated the domino effect which has ensued, and could not fathom that the power of freedom would trump every political, ethnic and religious concern as relates the liberated Iraqi people.
What's even worse, neither voters nor political historians can henceforth ascribe to the Democratic party the humanitarian mantle of "moral high ground" the party has always claimed for itself.
Worse still is the fact that the American people are beginning to see that taking this guy out really does make us safer.
No wonder Democrats are disavowing complicity in their own demise. There will be more.
Hope so.
"Vote for me! I'm easily fooled!"
And he says this with pride? He says this knowing about the oil for food scam, the money trail connecting those opposed to military action, the mass graves, the imprisoned children, etc.? He says this knowing that there was in fact an al Qaeda - Iraq connection and that Kay said that the chaos and atmosphere in Iraq was in some ways more dangerous than had Saddam been running a tighter ship?
Hind-site is always better than fore-site.
If I had known then what I know now, that the stock market was going to drop better than 25%, and when, I could have made a million+ dollars over night.
Probably a regular contributor to the Heinz Foundation; in which case; he already has!
As for you 'final assessment' on Rockefeller; could not agree more.
He needs to search outside his own cranium ...
We know this- saddam had no idea of what he was getting into with the United States. We also know that as much as the democrat party wants him back in power, saddam was not a great leader. He was an addle-minded sociopathic tyrant whose track record ranked with the worst of them and we took his Middle Eastern ass out. And finally, we now know that after all this time, U.S. Sen. jay rockefeller (spineless - W. VA) and friends are busy navel gazing, still pondering why terrorists want to kill Americans.
``They have three million pieces of paper,'' rockefeller (D-Baghdad) said. ``But it is a sham. There is nothing to point to any weapons of any kind.''
STFU, jay.
He's an idiot. The 9/11 Commission is castigating Bush and Clinton administrations for inaction and this fool endorses inaction. Liberals are a danger to America.
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