Well, almost.
It will be years before we see the last of those “Bush Lied, People Died” bumper stickers. The slogan has become an article of faith of the Left, an din recent years Democrats on the Senate Intelligence committee have conducted investigation after investigation in order to prove it. Now we have their final report, covering statements mad by administration officials in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller claims it shows the administration ‘repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted or even nonexistent.’ But wait.
Even a cursory look at the report shows that in a number of areas, including the critical subject of Iraq’s weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities, the administration’s statements were, in the report’s words, ‘substantiated by intelligence information.’
So after all that effort, Democrats came up with nothing.
Not that they didn’t try. Among other things, the majority cut committee Republicans out of the investigation and refused to include the many statements by Democrats who also believed Saddam Hussein had WMD.
‘It’s ironic that the Democrats would knowingly distort and misrepresent the committee’s findings and the intelligence,’ committee vice-chairman Kit Bond said, ‘in an effort to prove that the administration distorted and mischaracterized the intelligence.’
It’s also ironic that you will probably only find this story here. MorganLighter
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