Democratic Senators brought the senate session to a halt yesterday as they unrolled a political stunt of unbelievable proportions. Senator Harry Reid called for a “secret” session to “unveil” the truth about Iraq war rationale. Reid called for the investigation about faulty intelligence to be moved along into Phase Two. What confused committee Chairman Pat Roberts most was that Phase Two has been underway for weeks. It is scheduled be rapped up early next week.
Phase One of this investigation ended with all 17 committee members in unanimous agreement that the intelligence leading to the war in Iraq was in fact not “cooked”. Phase Two is to deal with over 300 statements made by public officials to see if there were any misrepresentations made to mislead the American public.
To avoid partisan politics, Chairman Pat Roberts intends to rate these statements without identification of who made them. Democrats blocked this move, pushing to focus solely on President Bush and his administration, neglecting to investigate the dozens of Democrats who also made public statements and decisions based on the same prewar intelligence.
This protest to get the committee to start something that had been underway for weeks was an unprecedented political stunt. It grabbed headlines and the Senate minority obtained the media spotlight they wanted, but what the American public witnessed was an adolescent tantrum perpetrated by men and women who sounded more like brooding little boys and girls.
Here are some of those who made public prewar statements affirming the existance of WMD...
