Bordering on Treason
This is amazing...where is the MSM? On Fox News Sunday, this exchange took place:
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?
SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The — I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. 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 — that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.
Huh? Rockefeller is overseas playing Jimmy Carter before war was even declared? Here's how Bennett puts it:
While Democrats in Washington are berating the White House for having prewar intelligence wrong, a high-profile U.S. senator, member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, who has a name more internationally recognizable than Richard Cheney's, tells two putative allies (Saudi Arabia and Jordan) and an enemy who is allied with Saddam Hussein (Syria) that the United States was going to war with Iraq. This is not a prewar intelligence mistake, it is a prewar intelligence giveaway.
Syria is not only on the list of state sponsors of terrorism and the country many speculate is where Hussein has secreted weapons, it is also the country from which terrorists are flowing into Iraq to fight our troops and allies. Jordan and Saudi Arabia have had, over the years, conflicted loyalties. What was Senator Rockefeller doing? What was he thinking? And all this before President Bush even made a public speech about Iraq — to the U.N. or anyone else.
Geez. If Rockefeller really did do this, it needs to be aggressively investigated and he needs to have his rich boy butt thrown out of the Senate. That'll never happen, though, because he's a Democrat. The MSM will not cover the story any more than is absolutely minimally necessary, and his own party certainly doesn't have the character to do the right thing. It'll be up to the GOP to keep the heat on, and they're not exactly good at that. Thank God for the blogosphere! That's probably the only way this is going to stay in the public eye.
Read the whole piece.
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?
SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The — I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. 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 — that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.
Huh? Rockefeller is overseas playing Jimmy Carter before war was even declared? Here's how Bennett puts it:
While Democrats in Washington are berating the White House for having prewar intelligence wrong, a high-profile U.S. senator, member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, who has a name more internationally recognizable than Richard Cheney's, tells two putative allies (Saudi Arabia and Jordan) and an enemy who is allied with Saddam Hussein (Syria) that the United States was going to war with Iraq. This is not a prewar intelligence mistake, it is a prewar intelligence giveaway.
Syria is not only on the list of state sponsors of terrorism and the country many speculate is where Hussein has secreted weapons, it is also the country from which terrorists are flowing into Iraq to fight our troops and allies. Jordan and Saudi Arabia have had, over the years, conflicted loyalties. What was Senator Rockefeller doing? What was he thinking? And all this before President Bush even made a public speech about Iraq — to the U.N. or anyone else.
Geez. If Rockefeller really did do this, it needs to be aggressively investigated and he needs to have his rich boy butt thrown out of the Senate. That'll never happen, though, because he's a Democrat. The MSM will not cover the story any more than is absolutely minimally necessary, and his own party certainly doesn't have the character to do the right thing. It'll be up to the GOP to keep the heat on, and they're not exactly good at that. Thank God for the blogosphere! That's probably the only way this is going to stay in the public eye.
Read the whole piece.
posted by Jennifer at 1:15 AM
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