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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, ranking Democrat and vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, IE. one Democrat who had seen all the same intelligence that Bush had, makes a treasonous confession on a Sunday talk show, Fox News Sunday. This whole matter will not be on any of the other media, period, than FOX because of how damning it is to Rockefeller and the whole notion of what Democrats are harping on today; Bush lied, etc..
It doesn't take a conservative to realize what a cowboy Rockefeller must have felt like in his junket to the middle east. Just 90 days after the attack on 9/11, long before the war began, and 9 months before the President made his case at the United Nations, Rockefeller told Syria's Bashar Assad, Saddam Hussein's bud, that 'they' will be coming. Remember too that Saddam had kicked out the UN inspectors. With a 14-month heads-up, is it any wonder that Saddam's WMD stuff disappeared? Like into and/or through Syria?
His confession/revelation on Sunday makes the second breach of faith and security in his performance on the most sensitive of committees on Capital Hill, and some action needs to be started. Meanwhile, he should be removed from that committee and lose his security clearance until he has gone through a successful and complete investigation.
Rockefeller must be brought to account for this act, which is a closer cousin to treason than the strategy memo that came to light from his office 8 months after the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which described how they planned to politicize the intelligence to hurt the administration. This, from a Senator on the Select Intelligence Committee. And exactly the sort of thing we have seen from Democrats for the last couple years.
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The ruckus that's going on in the Senate is ridiculous. Extending our rights to enemy combatants to whatever extent, poking their nose into alleged 'black sites' where bad guys are held, wanting a timetable for withdrawal (surrender). All of this is up to the President, the Commander in Chief and last I checked, the Senate is not the Commander in Chief.
They need to quit thinking that they can interfere with or otherwise micro-manage this war. That goes for Republicans and Democrats. Has anyone ever heard of a war run by the Senate? Is there any government created program that you can reference that was as successful as this war in Iraq needs to be? I know, I'm being generous. On matters they are responsible for, we have our current educational system that reveres unions over educating children. Then there's the war on poverty. That war is going 40 years now. Where's that exit plan? The energy bill that provides no additional energy, no drilling, no refining, no nuclear plants, and increased dependence on foreign oil.
All of Congress should be behind this war just the same as they were for the first 90 days after 9/11. We could have already been out of Iraq by now had they remained committed. By contrast, by keeping this 'Bush lied' theme going, Democrats today are sending the wrong message to our troops, the wrong message to our enemy (on the side of the enemy), and casting a pall over the Iraqi people who now more than ever, don't want us to leave before they can adequately protect themselves.
You can't be an 'opposition party' when there are people out there who want to kill us. When they only want us dead, we should be together. Anything less will increase the human and all other cost.
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