ROCKEFELLER: Chris, it is always the same conversation. You know, it was not the Congress that sent 135,000 or 150,000 troops to--Wallace also showed video of Senator Rockefeller agreeing with Bush in October 2002. saying:
WALLACE: But you voted, sir, and aren't you responsible for your vote?
ROCKFELLER: No. I'm--
WALLACE: You're not? . . .
ROCKEFELLER: I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11th that question is increasingly outdated.Wallace then drove the point home:
WALLACE: Now, the president never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller?Game, set and match. As the rich are supposed to say, "Tennis anyone?" No, not you Jay: only a hospital can treat terminal Widespread and Massive Democratic Amnesia. Chris Wallace -- a Democrat, but fair -- can take your Senate seat.
(via Best of the Web)
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What about this unbelievable statement from Jay Rock...
"I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq..."
A U.S. Senator, acting on his own behalf, goes on an excellent adventure to tell Syria that war was a foregone conclusion? Is he a pompous ass or a brain-dead idiot?
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Doesn't your article suggest we should step up detentions of suspected terrorists? Take two aspirin, watch the video and comment here in the morning.
This issue has nothing to do with "sharing the blame" and everything to do with two nasty words that make lefties cover their ears and fall into a catatonic trance..."personal responsibility."
The Democratic senators who conveniently forget their own statements and try to distance themselves from their own actions, while drunkenly reciting, "Bush lied," are cowardly political opportunists.
Carl et al, I've forgotten my password so I'm anonymous for now. But with regard to personal responsibility, I'm all for it. Let's start with Bush, our strutting Commander-in-Chief, and his generals Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al who now admit they blundered into Iraq but can't quite say they lied, despite the fact they were all told repeatedly that the information they were swearing to on all the Sunday talk shows was fake or faulty. If your own mothers had been so fatally mistaken — over and over and over — you’d have locked 'em up and start 'em on Thorazine. If Clinton had claimed he was misled over something so grievous, you would never have believed him for a minute. No, because you knew he was smart. He was up late reading the reports, holding meetings, making his own decisions. So Bush’s only defense is that he was completely ignorant and incompetent! You want to throw in all the Senators who went along? Fine. Let's make 'em all responsible. They are. But every one of you knows that this war was Bush’s war. If anyone else had been President there would have been no second Iraq war. He saw the chance on September 12, he went after it and he forced the case. Nobody else had anywhere near that level of decision.
And while we’re at it, have you ever seen a more despicable failure of personal responsibility as those three brave sons of liberty ordering the use of torture (no quibbling here, it was Rummy to Alberto to George) and then pointing at seven Sunday soldiers for actually obeying? These are not the leaders who made America great.
Finally, Carl, I honestly don't see how the above article about the would-be suicide sister suggests that we should step up detentions, or even could. Number one, the woman's brother WAS detained but they let him go because they can't keep everyone. Two, the article does say that the more you detain them and destroy their cities, the more they hate you. That's simple arithmetic. And three, the minute John Murtha said to get out now, even so-called friendly Iraqis have jumped up and said, "Okay, set a date!" ("Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable," AP, 11/22/05, seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iraq_Conference.html)
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