Statement by John Kerry on Closed-Door Senate Session and Senate Failures to Investigate Pre-War Intelligence

“For a year and a half, the Republican leadership in Congress has refused again and again to complete Phase II of their investigation into pre-war intelligence failures. All the requests I and other Senators have made of the Intelligence Committee for more information have been pushed aside. The Republican leadership has been complicit in a political cover-up of the decisions that led to war. Nothing could be more serious or more deserving of full public disclosure. The families of our troops deserve the truth, as does every American. Now that one of the chief architects of the war in Iraq has been indicted for related crimes, it is more important than ever to know how intelligence was presented to the Congress.

“The country and the Congress were misled into war. It is deeply troubling that the Republicans in Washington are so afraid to share the truth with the American people. Clearly it will require an independent, outside investigation to get to the bottom of this.”

This is good to see.

This is the democratic party I love. :)

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BTW, where's everybody who was looking for Kerry's statement?? :shrug:

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secondly, enjoy your brief stay.

If you are going to criticize Kerry, criticize him for voting in Senate to allow Bush's immoral and illegal war to occur, not for Kerry his election to the Presidency stolen.

Enjoy your stay.

LOL

What is it with you guys and spelling? And it's always the same words.

looser

whinner

hugh

moran

Now I am adding quiter to the list. :rofl:

than i take my ESP encounters in the past year.

for real.

and it's "loser", not "looser".

welcome to DU

:hi:

WOW, you know, if you're going to infiltrate us, you really do need to learn how to spell. It's a DU prerequisite, you know - you just give yourself away with this one.

"Kerry is a QUITER! What a LOOSER! This is HUGH!!!!!111 I'M SERIES!!!!!1 EAGLES UP!!!!!!!111one"

Edit: DAMNIT! He's already poppin' up daisies. And I was so looking forward to sending that alert, too.

And he didn't let ME down.

we are freaking mindreaders! Never walked in his shoes against the Rove machine ...yep

I am so fucking sick of the Kerry bashing.

election and its outcome.

:rofl:

:yoiks:

to do, even Hillary will smarten up when she figures out how to enter the "fray"
-->it is more important than ever to know how intelligence was presented to the Congress. (and the american people)

as he called for Roberts to finally do what was in Kerry's letter re: the DSM in June, which was for the Intelligence Committee to actually complete their damned investigation, instead of letting Phase II just sit there.

Taking nothing away from Reid, but Kerry doesn't need to fall in behind. He's out in front. A trendsetter if you will.

He's one of the ones who got this investigation in the first place.

LEBANON, NH -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Wednesday that President Bush broke his promise to build an international coalition against Iraq's Saddam Hussein and then waged a war based on questionable intelligence.

''He misled every one of us,'' Kerry said. ''That's one reason why I'm running to be president of the United States.''

...As for the question about U.S. intelligence, Kerry said he has led the call for a congressional investigation and pledged, ''We will get to the bottom of this.''

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0618-09.htm

this should be on the Greatest Page.

:woohoo:

Excellent.

It is deeply troubling that the Republicans in Washington are so afraid to share the truth with the American people.

Try...

unconscionable
horrid
outrageous
horrific
hideous

Kerry needs to stop mincing words.

"afraid to share the truth"? You mean they LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE!

"The Republican leadership has been complicit in a political cover-up of the decisions that led to war."

Only other one I've heard say it right out like that is Mr. Reid - I'm proud of our people today!

Thanks, sandnsea!

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I wish he (and every other Dem) would stop saying "intelligence failure." There was no "failure." The "intelligence" worked exactly as it was meant to by the crooks who cooked it up.

Reid had the right idea today. He used the words "manufacture" and "manipulate." These are more effective (and accurate) words to describe what happened.

Props to Kerry for using the phrases "misled into war" and "political cover-up" though. Excellent. :patriot:

Mistakes were made. There's no active agent (in the linguistic sense) in an "intelligence failure" Other than some ambiguous faceless agency that just plum broke down, like a broken lightbulb, or some honest mistake.

I agree that Kerry should not reinforce this blame-free frame.

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A more precise way to put it. Thanks.

:hi:

Thanks Professor George Lakoff for framing the "frame" concept repeatedly, and showing me the importance of it.

That type of passivization is so ingrained in the language of politicians, but it really needs to be excised from Democratic politicans' lexicons.

Forceful & truthful comments- A +

http://www.tedkennedy.com/page/petition/iraqdocuments
<snip>
As we know, Scooter Libby and Vice President Cheney withheld critical documents in the Senate's investigation of the use and misuse of intelligence and the abuse of power in the decision to go to war and in the management of the war.

These documents must be handed over, because the American people deserve answers.

That is why I'm urging the White House to hand over those documents and asking you to join me in doing so. We need as many Americans as possible to join us in the next few days to show the White House that we are not letting this indictment be the end.

Thousands of Americans came to TedKennedy.com this weekend and joined me in asking for those documents, let's get 25,000 people to join us today.

The White House has made keeping secrets from the American people a priority, and that has to stop.

The American people know the high cost of this misguided war - 2,000 U.S. soldiers dead, more than 15,000 wounded, hundreds of billions of dollars spent with no end in sight, and a continuing shameful effort by the White House to silence those who try to tell the truth about the war.

We need answers, not cover-ups, by the administration about these serious issues. Thank you for all your support in trying to get the truth.

Join thousands of your fellow Americans and show this is not the end....

Pretty rowdy, B Calm.


Peace.

:bounce: All I want for Fitzmas is my Country Back, :bounce:

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Thank You Senator Kerry. Now continue to say this and demand that Bush and his cabinet be put on trial for war crimes!

continue to state these facts over and over again, until the media has no choice, but to report these facts correctly.

I've been deeply troubled by the BushCo/neoconster regime's determination to ruin this country.

too undurstandd himm. :sarcasm: 11111111111

Why aren't you at your post?

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Kerry is not the "outrageous label" type. If he had said they "lied," the Repubs would be jumping up and down over that remark instead of focusing on the intention of the message.

I think Kerry is getting the hang of it. :)