Posted on 06/05/2008 5:39:40 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON — A long-delayed Senate report endorsed by Democrats and some Republicans has concluded that President Bush and his aides built the public case for war against Iraq by exaggerating available intelligence and by ignoring disagreements among spy agencies about Iraq’s weapons programs and Saddam Hussein’s links to Al Qaeda.
The report was released Thursday after years of partisan squabbling, and it marks the close of five years of investigations by the Senate Intelligence Committee into the use, abuse and faulty assessments of intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
That some Bush administration claims about the Iraqi threat turned out to be false is hardly new. But the report, based on a detailed review of public statements by Mr. Bush and other officials, is the most comprehensive effort to date to assess...
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The 170-page report accuses Mr. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top officials of repeatedly overstating the Iraqi threat in the emotional aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Its findings were endorsed by all eight committee Democrats and two Republicans, Senators Olympia Snowe of Maine and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.
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In a detailed minority report, four of those Republicans accused Democrats of hypocrisy and their own campaign of cherry-picking — namely, refusing to include misleading public statements by such top Democrats as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Mr. Rockefeller.
As an example, they pointed to an October 2002 speech by Mr. Rockefeller, who declared to his Senate colleagues that he had arrived at the “inescapable conclusion that the threat posed to America by Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction is so serious that despite the risks, and we should not minimize the risks, we must authorize the president to take the necessary steps to deal with the threat.”...
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I wonder if any of these were included in the report. Snowe and Hagel are scumbags.
I wonder if any of these were included in the report. Snowe and Hagel are scumbags.
I wonder if any of these were included in the report. Snowe and Hagel are scumbags.
Great post. Thanks.
I sent an email to the RNC with similar quotes letting them know that I won’t send money until they start fighting the lies. I know people who were for the war & now against it because they believe the president lied. It’s past time for the truth to be told.
FYI: Hitler’s psychological profile
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.[
Obama needs military credentials and supporters; and Hagel is a prime turncoat candidate. Hagel is a buddy of John Kerry, a whining foe of President Bush's Middle East policies - and a most arrogant and humorless individual (the antithesis of Bush).
You should send your emails to the sources that are directly responsible for withholding the truth about our Middle East policy and its successes: in other words - the MSM.
The RNC has regularly made available all this - as anyone can see by going to its site - but the public can hardly know about the progress if announcements by the Armed Forces and by the President are either not reported to the public or are distorted.
The MSM even pulled its embedded reporters with the military units in Iraq and Afghanistan under the pretense that they were "getting too personally involved with the subjects of their reporting" - i.e., that they were reporting too much of the truth.
It is up to each of us as much as the RNC to make public these really immense successes - the liberation of two nations and their peoples from some of the most dangerous tyrants in the world, thereby liberating us from their formerly lethal threat to us.
I agree, and having that idiot McClellan as the mouthpiece during the worst days of the Bush presidency only validates this.
Rove can win elections, but he can’t manage his candidates once the prize is won.
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