Democrats Acknowledge Presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Steve Boggess (12/05/05)
Recently, all the top congressional and senatorial Democrats stood behind Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev) to have a closed session of the Senate to demand further investigation into the charges that the Bush administration misled the public into war.
These are the same Democrats voted in support of President Bush and going to war with Iraq.
Senator Reid charged the administration of “manufacturing and manipulating” pre-war intelligence relating to Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction programs. When looking at this issue more closely, it becomes clearer that the senator should have put more time into researching the comments made by his Democratic colleagues.
These Democrats are showing their political one-sidedness in an attempt to make the voting public believe them as they now claim they were collectively lied to by the Bush administration. Talk about collective hypocrisy.
On October 9, 2002, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) stated that: “According to the CIA’s report, all U.S. intelligence experts agree that Iraq is seeking nuclear weapons. There is little question that Saddam Hussein wants to develop nuclear weapons.”
The very next day, his colleague, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) stated: “In the four years since the inspectors, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capability to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.”
Not to be outdone, Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.,) Hillary’s fellow New Yorker, and Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) both said on October 10, 2002 that all intelligence pointed to the weapons of mass destruction program that Saddam Hussein had in place, and that the potential danger to our national security could not be exaggerated and that it also must be eliminated.
Former president Bill Clinton spoke on February 17, 1998 on how dangerous Saddam’s weapon of mass destruction program was not only to the United States, but also to Iraq’s neighboring countries. He also spoke of this at the White House on December 16, 1998.
Practically all members of the former president’s cabinet believed during his tenure that Saddam had those same weapons that they now claim the intelligence was either false, or that they were misled on.
For Senator Reid to have shut down the Senate so that the Democrats could discuss political strategy on how they will maneuver candidates into senatorial and congressional seats is nothing short of hypocrisy and is deplorable.
Why would these Democrats, who were in favor of removing Saddam Hussein during the Clinton years, now claim they were collectively lied to by this administration, even though all of them had access to the same intelligence as did Bush?
This tells me that the Democrats again have their collective backs against the wall, and will stop at nothing to further their leftist, political agenda of putting a liberal in the White House in 2008.
The Democratic Party is still a party with real problems, and no real solutions. But have more than enough accusations of this administration to last for decades.
Is this the way Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean envisioned running his party? If so, then he needs a new and clearer vision.
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