Re: Democracts lied about their Sup****t for the War

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> SlackJaw wrote:
> > Tom Betz wrote:
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> > > 2080 Dead <zepp#22112080dead@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:23:09 GMT, "SlackJaw" <ert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > OK, I'll bite...What is it that Bush knew that the Democrats
> > > > > didn't?
> > > >
> > > > That Bush was lying.
> > >
> > > Actually, (I realized this while listening to Carl Levin talking
> > > about the NIE today) a majority of the Democratic members of the
> > > Senate Intelligence Committee (Graham, Levin, Wyden, Mikulski,
> > > Graham, and Durbin) voted against the Iraq resolution.  They had
read
> > > the classified version of the NIE with the qualifiers Cheney and
Bush
> > > permitted to be included still in place, not the unclassified
version
> > > that the rest of the Senate saw, and they knew that the NIE did not
> > > make a solid case for the invasion of Iraq;  but they were
prohibited
> > > by law from telling the rest of the Senate about the qualifiers,
> > > because those qualifiers were only in the classified version!
> > >
> > > What I can't understand is how Feinstein, Edwards, Rockefeller and
> > > Bayh were conned into voting for it.
> >
> > What is it that Bush knew that the Democrats didn't?
> >
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> For one thing, Bush knew the contents of the Presidential Daily Briefs
> (PDBs) and Congress didn't.
>
> Bush also knew the contents of the 90-page NIE and congress didn't. As
> I recall only about a half-dozen Senators and a handfull of
> Representatives read this classified re****t. Most of them only read a
> non-classified, 25-page summary.
>
> As I recall Bush started gathering intelligence on Iraq's WMD in
> September 2001 and, of course, was still doing so in October 2002 when
> Congress passed the Iraq War Resolution. So, that's an entire year of
> Presidential briefings, meetings and telephone conversations, etc.
> That's obviously a lot of information. So, how and when was it exactly
> that Congress learned everything Bush knew about Iraq's WMDs?
>
> There is supposed to be an investigation into whether the White House
> manipulated or cherry-picked the intelligence. Republicans have been
> blocking this investigation for about 1 year now. When the
> investigation is completed we'll know more about what Bush knew and
> what Congress didn't know.
>

Rep. Dingell of Michigan stated on Charlie Rose's show that in a face to
face meeting with Bush, Dingell asked to see the intelligence information
which Bush based his policy.  Although Dingell had security clearances to
allow him to view the papers, Bush flatly refused.

Bush is a Dunce.

RO