Posted on 11/14/2005 11:13:59 AM PST by Stultis
WALLACE: ...in October of 2002 in which you authorized the use of force, you went further than the president ever did. Let's watch:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROCKEFELLER: I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11th that question is increasingly outdated.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Now, the president never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller?
ROCKEFELLER: No. I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq, that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.
Now, the intelligence that they had and the intelligence that we had were probably different. We didn't get the presidential daily briefs. We got only a finished product, a finished product, a consensual view of the intelligence community, which does not allow for agencies — like in the case of the aluminum tubes, the Department of Energy said these aren't thick enough to handle nuclear power.
They left that out and went ahead with, "They have aluminum tubes and they're going to develop nuclear power."
WALLACE: Senator, you're quite right. You didn't get the presidential daily brief or the senior executive intelligence brief. You got the national intelligence estimate.
But the Silberman commission, a presidential commission that looked into this, did get copies of those briefs, and they say that they were, if anything, even more alarmist, even less nuanced, than the intelligence you saw...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Did he also suggest that it might be a good idea to hide the WMDs for a while?
Rockefeller admits he tipped of Syria weeks earlier. But the comments in the SOTU might equally be applied to North Korea or Iran, other "Axis of Evil" members with WMD programs.
When was the first indication that Iraq specifically would be confronted, with military for if necessary? Wasn't it into the Spring or even the Summer, Rockefeller then having given the Syrians months of advance warning?
Oh...I was dreaming.
FYI PING
TRAITOR
Why isn't this treason? Why isn't Rocky being Frog marched across the senate floor??
DISGUSTING! This clown really does NOT want to see this country succeed.
Rockefeller is wrong, AGAIN, and Wallace (surprised) didn't call him on it via those aluminum tubes.
They have been completely analyzed by a French concern that says they could have only been used for the purpose of making nuclear weapons. I saw this reported by Fred Barnes on "The Beltway Boys".
I totally agree with you ... This BS has got to stop NOW!!
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I'd love to see Rockefeller under oath, but it won't happen. They're too busy chasing after drugged up baseball stars and crooked oil executives. /sarc
Can't get through to Senator Roberts -- line is busy. I want to make sure he knows this as the Chair of the Intelligence Committee.
I think we also need to send snail mail letters. They don't read most of their e-mail.
No... but I didnt do the original political drawing. I editied it.
Has Rockfeller stepped down yet? Did he know anything in advance about the murder of the Lebanese PM?
Thanks for posting this. My blood pressure really went up when I heard that comment about speaking to authorities "on his own"
How long will it take for Taranto or Hume or Hewitt (Rush is on vacation) to discuss this?
UN Confirms: WMDs Smuggled Out of Iraq
The Vanguard ^ | June 18, 2004 | Rod D. Martin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1159171/posts
(snip)
UN Confirms: WMDs Smuggled Out of Iraq
© June 18, 2004, Rod D. Martin
In a report which might alternately be termed “stunning” or “terrifying”, United Nations weapons inspectors confirmed last week not merely that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but that he smuggled them out of his country, before, during and after the war.
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Well, now we know that Syria and Iraq both had a heads up in plenty of time to move any incriminating WMD right across the border into Syria, courtesy of Baby Assad.
-PJ
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