Senator Jay Rockefeller
...Rockfeller, reminded that he voted to give Bush the authority to go to war and made statements suggesting Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, said Sunday, "I mean, I was dead flat wrong."
Rockefeller is not the only Democrats to backtrack on the war in Iraq, and several Democrats are heating up their rhetoric with revived charges that the Bush administration manipulated intelligence in order justify going to war in Iraq. Senator Rockefeller, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Select Committee On Intelligence (SSCI) is clearly a key player in the gross politicization of the issue of prewar in intelligence on Iraq. Rockefeller's integrity when it comes sensitive issues, such as our nation's intelligence work, has been questioned in the past... He has been willing undermine our intelligence for partisan gain. Remember The Rockefeller Memo, which revealed the Democrats plan to politicize the report on prewar intelligence in order to make the Bush Administration look bad? Pat Roberts, the chairman of the committee, said the memo appeared to be "a road map for how the Democrats intend to politicize what should be a bipartisan, objective review of prewar intelligence." He also said, "You can't politicize the Intelligence Committee. The memo is blatantly partisan. Members of the committee on the Republican side are frustrated, outraged and indignant." Roberts believed that the strategy outlined in the memo may have constituted a violation of Senate ethics rules, which he apparently considered pursuing with the ethics committee.
When the committee's investigation ended, the bipartisan report, which Rockefeller approved, determined there was "no evidence that any policy-maker had pressured CIA analysts to conform intelligence findings to the Pentagon's point of view." However, at a press conference following the release of the report, Rockefeller charged the opposite.
The Democrats are clearly in the process of doing anything they can to discredit the Bush administration. Despite the fact that the SSCI's report concluded there was no manipulation of intelligence, Democrats today, including Rockefeller, charge that there was. Isn't it strange that Rockefeller, the ranking Democrat on the SSCI, voted for the war in Iraq... as did John Kerry and John Edwards, who were both on the committee. These senators, all had access to classified material and any relevant information they needed prior to the war. They all voted for the war, and two them received 48% of the popular vote vote when they ran together in the 2004 presidential election.
What is the meaning of this? We can only surmise that it is fear which motivates such Democrats - fear of the anti-war left and what the left might do to them if they don't get on their knees to the paranoid conspiracy-theorists about the war. Their hope is that they'll ride a wave of resentment into power and then be able to placate the left with some small changes - but they don't realise that the left wants it all: they want a full American defeat in the war and anyone who advocates anything other than surrender will be marked down as an enemy by the left. Rockefeller has dishonored himself to no purpose.
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This is how out of touch the Democratic party is. The closer we get to achieving success in Iraq, the more they try to distance themselves from it. By my estimate, when the 2006 elections roll around, they will be strangled by their own sound bites.
Anyone notice how Hillary is verrrry silent on the topic? She's a savvy politician who knows that if we succeed, she will be on the record supporting the war. The rest of these idiots will look worse than the French, who are suffering an identity crisis that most Americans would like to avoid.
Go ahead Dems... keep calling it George Bush's war. Then it will be George Bush's victory, and his alone.
Posted by: MagicalPat at November 7, 2005 11:52 AM
So Harry was "dead flat wrong" and people died. Sounds like a great T-Shirt for the next election.
Demand he step down!
Posted by: DL at November 7, 2005 06:02 PM
It is truly amazing that the "master of misunderestimation" following his personal "strategery" has been able to dup the dems on both sides of a dem flip-flop.
First, on the Iraqi war resolution, he got them to see exactly what he wanted them to see, even when it was actually there on paper .. from the CIA.
On the backside, he got them to repudiate their their well chosen position for .. nothing. I haven't been able to find a real new charge that has any meat to it. No Iraq-al Qaeda connection ? Yeah, right. I heard that one before. I mean .. Scooter lied and .. the dems got stupid. Better yet, the dems now love the CIA .. the same guys who gave them the reports that they now know are wrong in, oh, so many ways (David Kay .. report to the Senate caucus room).
It is obvious that the Dems had bet the ranch on the indictments by Fitzgerald. When he said this was not about the Iraq war, sails sagged and tires went flat all over DC. But worse, the ranch was lost, and with it went the sanity of the Dem leadership.
For all the bluster this weekend about the "secret session" (it would have ben more profitable had they used it to talk about a pay raise), the Dems have nothing to back up any charge, except that Scooter lied to the grand jury over nothing to do with Iraq, but this is what got us into war. Hello .. Earth to Democratic (lack of) Leadership.
Are we to believe that Bush managed to fool each and everyone of them; even the ones on the intelligence committees (Jay Rockefeller this mean you). Yeah sure. You can fool the people some of the time, but apparently you can fool the Democratic leadership ad nauseam; they can even fool themselves. The best Senators that money can buy. The real poster children to make sure public financing of campaigns never, ever happens. And they want to lead. Now who's zoom'in who ?
They did get the Democratic base is all fired up, but only Bush's brain, Karl Rove, has the marshmallows.
Posted by: Neo at November 7, 2005 10:18 PM
How about this "Democratic Leadership emboldens al Qaeda with new initiative"
Posted by: tom at November 14, 2005 04:12 PM
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This is how out of touch the Democratic party is. The closer we get to achieving success in Iraq, the more they try to distance themselves from it. By my estimate, when the 2006 elections roll around, they will be strangled by their own sound bites.
Anyone notice how Hillary is verrrry silent on the topic? She's a savvy politician who knows that if we succeed, she will be on the record supporting the war. The rest of these idiots will look worse than the French, who are suffering an identity crisis that most Americans would like to avoid.
Go ahead Dems... keep calling it George Bush's war. Then it will be George Bush's victory, and his alone.
So Harry was "dead flat wrong" and people died. Sounds like a great T-Shirt for the next election.
Demand he step down!
It is truly amazing that the "master of misunderestimation" following his personal "strategery" has been able to dup the dems on both sides of a dem flip-flop.
First, on the Iraqi war resolution, he got them to see exactly what he wanted them to see, even when it was actually there on paper .. from the CIA.
On the backside, he got them to repudiate their their well chosen position for .. nothing. I haven't been able to find a real new charge that has any meat to it. No Iraq-al Qaeda connection ? Yeah, right. I heard that one before. I mean .. Scooter lied and .. the dems got stupid. Better yet, the dems now love the CIA .. the same guys who gave them the reports that they now know are wrong in, oh, so many ways (David Kay .. report to the Senate caucus room).
It is obvious that the Dems had bet the ranch on the indictments by Fitzgerald. When he said this was not about the Iraq war, sails sagged and tires went flat all over DC. But worse, the ranch was lost, and with it went the sanity of the Dem leadership.
For all the bluster this weekend about the "secret session" (it would have ben more profitable had they used it to talk about a pay raise), the Dems have nothing to back up any charge, except that Scooter lied to the grand jury over nothing to do with Iraq, but this is what got us into war. Hello .. Earth to Democratic (lack of) Leadership.
Are we to believe that Bush managed to fool each and everyone of them; even the ones on the intelligence committees (Jay Rockefeller this mean you). Yeah sure. You can fool the people some of the time, but apparently you can fool the Democratic leadership ad nauseam; they can even fool themselves. The best Senators that money can buy. The real poster children to make sure public financing of campaigns never, ever happens. And they want to lead. Now who's zoom'in who ?
They did get the Democratic base is all fired up, but only Bush's brain, Karl Rove, has the marshmallows.
How about this "Democratic Leadership emboldens al Qaeda with new initiative"