Posted on 09/09/2006 4:24:11 PM PDT by Laverne
CBS) When the Senate Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of its findings this past week, the Republican chairman of the committee, Pat Roberts, left town without doing interviews, calling the report a rehash of unfounded partisan allegations.
Its statements like this one, made Feb. 5, 2003, by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell that have become so controversial, implying Iraq was linked to terror attacks.
"Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associated collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda lieutenants," Powell said.
But after 2 1/2 years of reviewing pre-war intelligence behind closed doors, the lead Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.), who voted for the Iraq War, says the Bush administration pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.
"The absolute cynical manipulation, deliberately cynical manipulation, to shape American public opinion and 69 percent of the people, at that time, it worked, they said 'we want to go to war,'" Rockefeller told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. "Including me. The difference is after I began to learn about some of that intelligence I went down to the Senate floor and I said 'my vote was wrong.'"
Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq — even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.
He said he sees that as a better scenario, and a safer scenario, "because it is called the 'war on terror.'"
Read the Senate committee report on information provided by the Iraqi National Congress. (211 pgs.) Read the committee report on Iraq's alleged terror links. (151 pgs.)
Does Rockefeller stands by his view, even if it means that Saddam Hussein could still be in power if the United States didn't invade?
"Yes. Yes. [Saddam] wasn't going to attack us. He would've been isolated there," Rockefeller said. "He would have been in control of that country but we wouldn't have depleted our resources preventing us from prosecuting a war on terror which is what this is all about."
Republicans say there was flawed intelligence to be sure, but they insist there was no attempt to mislead the public.
"In 2002 and 2003, members of both parties got a good look at the intelligence we had and they came to the very same conclusions about what was going on," White House Spokesman Tony Snow said.
"Now the democrats want Saddam back in power" should be in every add we buy.
This is proof that all that Soros cash obligates them to defend the worst socialist dictators on the planet.
Which is why he had to lie that the Administration lied.
Soros Millions = bring back saddam
Tell that to the very happy Kurds, and the women that were raped and assaulted by Ousay and his brother.
Let them keep talking. They'll talk themselves right out of th election.
Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.) is an ally of the terrorists. The Democrats are intellectually and morally bankrupt.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
What is it that Dims have against giving people Freedom. They worship gummit both good and bad so Dictators are just fine.
Fact is Saddamn was a copy of their hero Stalin so no real surprise. So what if he murdered a million of his own.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Has Rocky explained his little trip to Syria yet?
"Honestly, this guy hasn't got two brain cells to rub together. And this is the best and the brightest the dems have to place in a lead position on an "intelligence committee"?"
And those two brain cells possess no myelination (white matter)
I'm down with that. LOL
""Yes. Yes. [Saddam] wasn't going to attack us. He would've been isolated there," Rockefeller said. "He would have been in control of that country but we wouldn't have depleted our resources preventing us from prosecuting a war on terror which is what this is all about.""
Dear Senator Rockefeller,
I agree with you. So...
Saddam is still in power. Oil for Food is still going on, which means babies are dying because the Iraqi people aren't getting food. And the UN is getting more corrupt. Saddam is still working on his WMD program. Saddam is still paying suicide bombers families to kill Israelis.(ties to terrorism right there). We are still spending billions a year to monitor a no-fly zone.
Given all that, Osama is sitting in a cafe in Karachi, eating a danish and having a Starbucks decaf mocchichino with extra foam. Ok, how will you get Osama without violating international laws?
Please tell me what those 150,000 troops are doing? How are they fighting the war on terror?
So, Senator, if it was up to your party, Saddam would still be in power, we couldn't touch Osama and we would be fighting what terrorists and where?
Senator, you are what we call in Brooklyn a stupid douche bag.
Regards
EQ
Scroll back to 1998 -
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Don Marshall
August 20, 1998
(202) 224-6101
Statement of Senator Jay Rockefeller Regarding Today's Military Action
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) today released the following statement regarding U.S. military action in Sudan and Afghanistan:
"I strongly support this decisive action by the President to attack terrorism at its root and stand up for fundamental principles of freedom. In light of the mounting evidence and intelligence regarding the embassy bombings, it is clear that this action was taken for the right reasons and at the right time.
"We absolutely must not allow acts of terrorism, wherever and whenever they are carried out, to go unpunished. The Americans who were killed in East Africa are not the first to fall victim to international criminals, but it is imperative that we do everything possible to see that they are the last. Our nation owes it to those who died in the embassy bombings, and to the future safety of all Americans, to stand strong against terrorists who threaten the life and freedom of innocent people."
To Jay the half-assed senator.....thanks for undermining our troops. Jay, pull that silver spoon out of your lying mouth and apologize to our soldiers.
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