Yet in spite of all the accusations of White House “manipulation” — that it pressured intelligence analysts into connecting Hussein and Al Qaeda and concocted evidence about weapons of mass destruction — administration critics continually demonstrate an inability to distinguish making claims based on flawed intelligence from knowingly propagating falsehoods.
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committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV got in this familiar shot: “Sadly, the Bush administration led the nation into war under false pretenses.”
Yet Rockefeller’s highly partisan report does not substantiate its most explosive claims.

Apparently, the Rockefeller report was supposed to be a big deal in “exposing” the President and his “motives” behind the invasion of Iraq.

Here’s a round up of the blog reactions:…

Unmanned aerial vehicles

I remember when the UN Survey team found these. The scientists were attempting to pack these up and ship them to a safe place where the team had already been. The Swedish guy who was leading the Survey Team, attempted to tell the US that this was not reason enough to attack Iraq. Iraq had all sorts of military equipment they were not suppose to have. Technology they were not suppose to have too. I remember when the found the latest MIG interceptor buried in the sand. Why did Saddam need the latest MIG Interceptor?? Simple, he was sick and tired of our jets patroling the “No Fly Zones”. He would have eventually used them on our fighters. He would have lost, but he would have tried. Just like he used radar guided mobile SAMs. God Bless the man that created the JDAM Missile.

You know the continued short sightedness of the left continues to astonish me. I usually shut them up with asking them 1 question. I always ask them: “Where was Osama going to go to next??” They usually shake their head in a lack of understanding. No surprise that But honestly, Osama set up a base of operations 1st in the Sudan, then in Afghanistan. Well we had just kicked him out of Afghanistan. WHere was he going to go?? You can’t give me this blah blah blah about Saddam not liking Osama, Saddam loved anyone who got away with an attack on America. We had to attack Iraq, Osama would have set up a base of operations in the western part of Iraq, and it would have taken alot more than what we have lost in this to root that dog out of there. – Lorica

Nothing new here. The Left will lie until the cows come home. And there are enough idiots in America who will believe whatever the Left tells them. And now we have the Obamessiah to be their mouthpiece. Yeesh!

And the sheeple eat it up. We are doomed by the American Idol generations lack of attention span.

In the report’s final section, the committee takes issue with Bush’s statements about Saddam Hussein’s intentions and what the future might have held. But was that really a question of misrepresenting intelligence, or was it a question of judgment that politicians are expected to make?

Doesn’t this bring up the matter of political judgement as an important factor when selecting a President ?

Let’s see should it be the guy who hung out with the racist preacher for 20 years, the 60’s radical in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge ? Me thinks not.

And thanks for the heads up, Sen. Rockefeller.