16 December 2005 (# 11)
Gov. Dean, I urge you to launch the same type of messaging campaign that the DNC has now directed at the
atrocious, unpatriotic behavior of Jean Schmidt.Specifically, the message should be:
Bush lied again – Congress did not have the same intelligenceThe Congressional Research Service, in response to a request from Senator Dianne Feinstein, issued a report that contradicts Bush’s recent claims that Members of Congress had and have access to the same intelligence as he and his core executive staff:
Bush has said that Democratic lawmakers who authorized the use of force against Iraq and now criticize the war
saw the same pre-invasion intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that he did. The president made that claim in recent speeches about Iraq. Support for the war has decreased, and critics have said that the administration misled the country when it relied on erroneous intelligence about Iraqi weapons programs that supported its case for war and discarded information that undermined it.
"Some of the most irresponsible comments - about manipulating intelligence –
have come from politicians who saw the same intelligence I saw and then voted to authorize the use of force against Saddam Hussein," Bush said on Wednesday in his most recent speech. "These charges are pure politics."
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), by contrast, said: "The president, and a small number of presidentially designated Cabinet-level officials, including the vice president
... have access to a far greater overall volume of intelligence and to more sensitive intelligence information, including information regarding intelligence sources and methods."
Link: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13416512.htmIn fact, the CRS identified nine distinct intelligence products that are typically not shared with Congress.
Bush’s lie is further compounded by statements he made to Brit Hume in an interview on December 14, 2005. Think Progress reviewed the video of that interview and reported the following:
12/14/05:BUSH: I said I made the right decision. Knowing what I know today, I would have still made that decision.
HUME: So, if you had had this —
if the weapons had been out of the equation because the intelligence did not conclude that he had them, it was still the right call?BUSH:
Absolutely.3/19/03:Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly — yet, our purpose is sure.
The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder.
Link: http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/15/wmd-irrelevant
Link to the video:
http://streaming.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/2005/invasion.320.240.mov.htm Thus –
Bush broadcasts that he’d wage aggressive war on Iraq even if he knew they had no WMD.Gov. Dean, I realize you may be as dizzy as I am from this roller-coaster ride through Bush’s fabrication and deception maze. But, as nauseated as we and many of our fellow citizens are from the lies, death and destruction of Bush’s failed neoconster imperialism are fact. And, it is time for some crystal clear and persistent messaging, sponsored by the DNC, regarding the fact that:
1. Bush now admits he’d wage aggressive war on Iraq even if he knew his intelligence on Iraqi WMD was false;
2. The intelligence on Iraqi WMD was not only incorrect but forged prior to his launching his war of aggression;
3. And, we now know that the Congress and the American people, despite the heroic efforts of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity’s best efforts, did not begin to have access to the same “intelligence” as Bush and the neoconsters;
4. Because, Bush and the neoconsters would then have had to reveal that they were intentionally fabricating what they were telling everyone.
Be unrelenting, Gov. Dean, for the sake of the Republic and humanity.
Thank you,
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