June 12, 2003
A Lie for a Lie
A recent post to Right Wing News suggest Democrats are guilty of lying about Iraq’s WMD as well. Listed are several quotes of high ranking Democrats who stated that it was clear Iraq had WMD and was violating UN regulations.
The absurdity of such a claim can hardly be covered in a single column. The reality is that the Democrats are only guilty of believing the intelligence spoon fed to them by the Republican administration. Because Democratic leaders believed the administration and propagated the administration’s claims does not make them liars.
The reality is that the fire has started and it is only getting hotter for the administration. Come election time the public is going to want answers: Was the war justified? Was intelligence altered? Now that we can’t find the WMD are we in for more war?
My only question is: Who’s taking the fall?
Posted by joestump at June 12, 2003 03:26 PM6 out of the 14 quotes were from 1998.
What republican administration fed them the info they were talking about?
Posted by: John at June 14, 2003 06:02 AMAnother note, one of the 2003 comments was William Cohen, Clinton’s Def Sec, don’t think he’s pulling from the Bush admin info.
Also, one from 2002 was Al Gore, wasn’t aware he became and administration flack.
Yet another was Chirac, who has his own state’s intel services to draw from, Bush and Chirac only differed on what to do about it and not on their existence.
Ted Kennedy states in 2002 that “we have known for many years” that puts it back at least 2 years, and more likely more, given he said Many Years.
I think that makes 10 of 14 you cannot in anyway attribute to the Bush admin spoon feeding them selective intelligence.
Might want to try again on portraying all of this as a conspiracy, because frankly it isn’t. Trying to make it into one isn’t going to help the Democrats cause, it only plays to the party loyalists.
Posted by: John at June 14, 2003 06:18 AM
