Monday, June 09, 2008

I Would Like To Draw Your Attention To Something, KJ.....

Since all along, you have been one of the most rabidly anti-Bush people in my friends list; you deserve to have this pointed out to you.

The Washington Post just reported today on the Senate report - the Rockefeller one - about whether or not, in fact, "Bush Lied, People Died."

Their conclusion is that, despite the fact that Senator Rockefeller has been trying to claim that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report makes the President out to be a liar, in fact the report itself does no such thing.

Points to ponder:

On Iraq's nuclear weapons program? The president's statements "were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates."

On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president's statements "were substantiated by intelligence information."

On chemical weapons, then? "Substantiated by intelligence information."

On weapons of mass destruction overall (a separate section of the intelligence committee report)? "Generally substantiated by intelligence information."

Delivery vehicles such as ballistic missiles? "Generally substantiated by available intelligence."

Unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to deliver WMDs? "Generally substantiated by intelligence information."

But that's not all.

But statements regarding Iraq's support for terrorist groups other than al-Qaeda "were substantiated by intelligence information."

Statements that Iraq provided safe haven for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorists with ties to al-Qaeda "were substantiated by the intelligence assessments," and statements regarding Iraq's contacts with al-Qaeda "were substantiated by intelligence information."

The report is left to complain about "implications" and statements that "left the impression" that those contacts led to substantive Iraqi cooperation.

Right. The Senator in charge of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has been digging for years - YEARS - and has found that BUSH TOLD THE TRUTH BASED ON THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT THE TIME.

Now, we can debate whether or not that information was faulty all week, if you'd like; but nothing - NOTHING - will change the fact that that intelligence, intelligence Hillary Clinton STILL agrees with, by the way - was developed by the intelligence appointees of William Jefferson Clinton.

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