Bush

[Benassflick]

SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER, (D-WV): I hate to put it in those terms, but I was wrong. And I've said for a long time now that if I know now what I did not know then, I would have voted against it. I think there were two things. I think there was the question that the intelligence was flawed, profoundly flawed on all subjects, not just the weapons of mass destruction but the terrorist threat, the relationship between Saddam Hussein and perhaps 9/11, something which the vice president is still talking about, but also the fact that the highest level of the administration, they were talking so much, so constantly about the threat to the nation, grave and growing, mushroom clouds. This is moving to the homeland, the president said, just about a month before the vote. I mean, in a sense, they were exaggerating intelligence. They were ahead of the intelligence they were getting or they weren't paying attention to the intelligence they were getting and going beyond it to try to convince the American people that war was the way to go.

[This message was edited by wilheim on July 14, 2004 at 11:49 PM.]

 

[Benassflick]

If the U.S. hadn’t gone to war, here are some of the things we could have paid for with that same $151 billion, according to the National Priorities Project:

Healthcare for 27 million uninsured Americans, or
3 million new teachers, or
Classes for 20 million Head Start students.
If we do the same substitutions on an international scale, the calamity of this war is even more breathtaking. If, instead of going to war in Iraq, the U.S. had spent the same $151 billion on international assistance, we could have paid for:

Food for half the hungry people in the world for two years, and
A comprehensive global AIDS program, and
Clean water and sanitation for those lacking it in the entire developing world, and
Childhood immunizations for every child in the developing world

 

[Benassflick]

The Senate Intelligence Committee released a scathing report on the CIA's unfounded, unjustified, and unreasonable claims about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction; the report was oddly silent, however, about the Bush Administration's well-documented and apparently successful campaign to intimidate the CIA into coming up with justifications for the President's fraudulent case for the invasion. [New York Times] Senator Trent Lott was outraged by the CIA's "totally ridiculous, uncalled for, and counterproductive" redactions of the report and called for an independent commission to oversee the classification of government information

 

[ChuckSims]

It makes you sick does'nt it.