Kerry and Fiengold make scathing statements on Iraq Intelligence!

SENATOR JOHN KERRY (D-MA): “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.”

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD (D-WI): “I applaud Senator Reid’s effort to focus the Senate on what should be our top priority – our country’s national security. I voted against the Iraq war because I was concerned it would become a dangerous diversion from the need to keep Americans safe from terrorism. The war has become all of that and worse and that’s why I have proposed a flexible target date of December 2006 for an end to our primary military mission in Iraq. This Administration’s policy has made our country weaker militarily and economically, and it has emboldened and fostered the terrorist networks that threaten us.

Debating our nation’s security in closed session does not undermine consideration of the pending reconciliation bill, as some Republicans have tried to argue. Even if Democrats wanted to, they could not prevent the measure from coming to a vote. Far from obstructing the Senate’s business, Democrats are advancing it. Senator Reid has finally succeeded in overcoming the real obstruction we have seen in the Senate, namely thwarting efforts to get a complete and truthful accounting of the Administration’s activities in their rush to war.

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http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Kerry_Feingold_make_scathing_statements_on_1101.html

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Sorry, the title was just too good for a straight line....

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:rofl: Fixed.

It took the Fitzgerald investigation to get people to pay any attention to this.

One more time, "It's the media, stupid!"

It might be more correct if my name was ItsTheChickenShitMedia. They aren't stupid, they're just cowards and whores.

and you are right....the media is a goddamned evil Lernian hydra that, thankfully and foolishly, is down to only five heads.

It holds Democrats and Republicans alike in thrall, and should be seen as a set of manacles for the mind.

they talked about it on plame and then went away. they talked about it pretaining to phase II then it goes away. they have been talking about it. talk to media about why they ignore and dismiss the dems. the media make comments on air about doesnt matter what the dems have to say

you tell me, why we arent hearing what our dems have been and are saying

the DSM issue that Kerry brought up oh so long ago. It is exactly what was in his letter then.

Kicked and recommended.






Peace

and prerequisites by, in effect, becoming a lock-step arm of this Administration and have, IMHO, wholly abrogated their oaths of office, thereby making a mockery of their offices and the institution of the Congress.

Nice work, guys. Keep the pressure on.

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Kerry would make a great VP.
Feingold would make a better POTUS. :patriot:

On June 22, 2005, John Kerry sent a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee requesting an investigation of pre-war Iraq intelligence failures (and the Downing Street Memo). That letter can be found here. Senator Roberts response can be found here.

LINKS to Letters - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1021

I could suggest someone who would be good for conducting an outside investigation. :-)

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I love how the story also posts the Republican response: "They have no convictions, they have no principles, they have no ideas." Waaaahhhh!!!! :cry: :cry: poor Fristy.... so upset he couldn't come up with anything more than the usual tired bullshit so eloquently belied by Mr Kerry's and Mr Feingold's statements...

with or without good intelligence. Unless these two and several others admit the illegality of the war and their errors vis a vis the Iraq war and call for withdrawal, especially if key Dems cave on Scalito as they did on Roberts, why should we think there's more than a dimes worth of difference?

Kerry coughed up a mea culpa last week, and a "I made a mistake" two years ago.

And if you think that Feingold has anything to apologize for in this regard then you have NOT been paying attention.

The other bit of your post confuses me. Roberts and/or Scalito have nothing to do with intelligence re: the Iraq War. Two separate battles.

Scalito looks to be a fight. But Roberts had too much support.

They can't just sit there and filibuster everything. The problem is not Dem caving. The problem, and the fault, and the responsibility and ultimately the blame almost completely rests on the REPUBLICANS. Welcome to life in the minority. The nice part of that is that we aren't to blame for shit. THEY are.