Belatedly, Democrats want to reject the Iraq war!

I just noted the following on an NPR Radio web page:

Senate to Debate Iraq War Policy

All Things Considered, July 8, 2007 · Iraq will likely dominate debate Monday as the Senate takes up the defense authorization bill. Host Debbie Elliott speaks with Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), one of a growing number of Republicans opposing the Bush plan, and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN).

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My reaction to the paragraph:

What upsets me the most is that we are only seeing this discussion now, so many years after the invasion.

I never understood why Congress failed to debate this prior to our attack upon Iraq (and prior to the subsequent invasion/occupation).

Democrat Senators and Representatives, where were you when we needed someone with his head screwed on straight? Someone to ask hard questions and demand straight answers. The truth is, almost our entire Senate deserves to be dumped! We need a new start. Our nation requires a new, intelligent, leadership, and not just a new President.

We need a new, legitimately elected, goverment with a new mentality! And we need an informed President with a liberal education, an grasp of foreign affairs, and a vision of economics that honors the common wager earner.

The British did not fear Iraq

By F. Ellsworth Lockwood
Friday, December 15, 2006


The British did not fear Iraq prior to the U.S. invation of March 20, 2003, according to sources cited in a story by Associated Press writer D'ARCY DORAN. According to Doran's article, Iraq's military capability was at an all time low at the time of the invasion. The report was seen at:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061215/ap_on_re_eu/britain_iraq

Assuming Darcy's sources are accurate, it would appear that President George W. Bush used fear of WMDs or other weapons as a pretext in order to justifty an attack. The implication, of course, is that Sadaam Hussein's web page may have told the truth when the dictator claimed that there were no WMDs and that Bush was only using fear of WMDs as an "excuse" to justify attacking him. At the very least, Bush must have been padding the truth.

U.S. "feeds the insurgency" in Iraq (former defense chief)

An October 2005 article reported that Former Defense Chief Melvin R. Laird had called for exit strategy from Iraq, and that he had claimed the U.S. presence in Iraq "feeds the insurgency." Laird was also quoted as making comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq and suggesting a plan for withdrawal.

[Source, newsmax.com archives, with reference to Foreign Affairs magazine]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/19/155802.shtml

German gov warned U.S., intelligence bad: Bush did not heed

On November 21, 2005, The Christian Science Monitor reported that the CIA "knew" that intelligence sources on WMD were not reliable, but as if that were not enough, that the Bush administration repeatedly exaggerated the informant's claims in the run-up to the war.

Source: The Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1121/dailyUpdate.html)
Posted
Nov. 21, 2005 at 11:00 a.m.
Germany: CIA knew "Curveball" was not trustworthy

Former head, CIA Osama bin Laden Unit: Iraq War motive, greed -- Nov. 2004

As reported by Christian Science Monitor in November, 2004:

"Mike Scheuer, a 22-year veteran who works in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and is a former head of its Osama bin Laden unit ... wrote that the war in Iraq was "an avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate threat but whose defeat did offer economic advantages."

See the article at:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1112/p02s02-usfp.html


from the November 12, 2004 edition

CIA agent publicly chides White House for terror war