- Posted by Christopher Estep on June 16, 2008
From the moment I read this story in the LA Times, I’ve been searching for the other 3 horsemen.
Four years on from the first Senate Intelligence Committee report, war critics, old and newfangled, still don't get that a lie is an act of deliberate, not unwitting, deception. If Democrats wish to contend they were "misled" into war, they should vent their spleen at the CIA.
In 2003, top Senate Democrats -- not just Rockefeller but also Carl Levin, Clinton, Kerry and others -- sounded just as alarmist. Conveniently, this month's report, titled "Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence Information," includes only statements by the executive branch. Had it scrutinized public statements of Democrats on the Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees -- who have access to the same intelligence information as the president and his chief advisors -- many senators would be unable to distinguish their own words from what they today characterize as warmongering.
Somebody pinch me!
Now maybe we can discuss the merits of the war rather than the polemics of “Bush Lied, People Died”.
Oh wait, there are people like Reverend Jerry who think the government developed AIDS to use on blacks. Never mind. Most liberals are still a lost cause.