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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (489765)	11/9/2003 10:09:20 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769667

We can't turn tail Democrats might make Iraq another Somalia : By Jack Kelly On Oct. 30, America suffered its bloodiest day in Iraq since major combat operations ceased when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter was downed by a surface-to-air missile. Fifteen soldiers were killed. Not everyone in America was unhappy. "I hope the bloodshed continues in Iraq," said "Starpass," a poster on the Democratic Underground weblog. "The only way to get rid of this slimebag ... government ... relies heavily on what a [mess] Iraq turns into. [American soldiers] need to die ... to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent." Most of the posters on the Democratic Underground disagreed with "Starpass," but a distressingly large number did not. Meanwhile, Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee seem to be preparing to politicize intelligence. Fox News obtained a copy of a draft staff memorandum discussing timing a possible investigation of pre-war intelligence on Iraq to embarrass President Bush in the election campaign. "You can't politicize the Intelligence Committee," said its stunned chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. "This memo is blatantly partisan. Members on the Republican side are frustrated, outraged and indignant." The statements they made from 1998 onwards (when Saddam Hussein tossed out the U.N. weapons inspectors) make it clear Clinton administration officials shared the Bush administration's concerns about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs. Since the liberation of Iraq, the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of W.Va., has accused Bush of claiming, falsely, that Saddam's WMD programs posed an "imminent" threat. Bush never said that. But Rockefeller did. "I do believe Iraq poses an imminent threat," Rockefeller said in a speech last fall. "But I also believe that after Sept. 11, the question is increasingly outdated. It is in the nature of these weapons and the way they are targeted against civilian populations, the documented capability and the demonstrated intent may be the only warning we get. To insist on further evidence could put some of our fellow Americans at risk." Now that the danger is past and an election is near, Rockefeller is revising history, including his own, and preparing to distort intelligence for partisan political purposes. For the aging leftists in the Democratic Party, Iraq is another Vietnam. But for Saddam and Osama bin Laden, Iraq is another Somalia. In Mogadishu in 1993, militiamen loyal to the warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid downed two Black Hawk helicopters and killed 18 American soldiers. (cont. next post)