Democrat leaders have short memories


It's not about truth, it's about scoring points
Jack Kelly writes in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The president went on television to announce: "Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors."

"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years," the vice chairman of the Intelligence committee told the Senate.

The president was Bill Clinton (Dec. 16, 1998). The senator was Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia (Oct. 10, 2002).

These statements should be kept in mind when assessing the hissy fit Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid threw Tuesday when he called the Senate into secret session to discuss whether Bush administration officials had exaggerated prewar intelligence about Iraq.

I bring this up because I'm seeing the same argument from prominent Democrats and modern liberals again and again. It's like the world changed and the past disappeared three seconds after President Bush was sworn in for the first time.

The same accusations keep coming up again and again, and there is never any proof.

As far as I can tell, there is one very big difference between George W. Bush talking about Iraq and Bill Clinton talking about Iraq. When Mr. Bush did it, he was prepared to follow through. And apparently his critics are upset because of it. The rest is history.

Were there WMDs in Iraq? Every intelligence agency on the planet thought so, including the U.N. And there is still the matter of the heavily armed convoys that crossed the Syrian border before the U.S. invasion.

To be raising these questions again now smacks more of politics and timing than any real interest in "truth."

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - November 7, 2005 at 04:56 AM  Tag


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