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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (32982)	12/18/2003 1:28:51 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

More Bush lies: Back when we citizens were struggling to follow the debates over whether to invade Iraq, a comment often heard, often in a half-doubting, half-hopeful tone, was: "They" -- meaning the foreign policy elites in Congress and the White House -- "probably know some things that we don't yet." We assumed that no one would be foolish enough to drag us, half-assed, into a land war in the Middle East. Indeed, the very fact that even as rank-and-file Democrats were saying "no" to war, Congressional Democrats were reluctantly saying "yes", seemed to support the logic that "they" had been told things we hadn't. Now comes a potential blockbuster of a claim: Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida says the Bush Administration last year told him and about 75 other Senators at a classified briefing that Iraq not only had terrifying weapons, but also a means to deliver them to East Coast cities. Nelson wouldn't say who made that startling behind-closed-doors claim -- though the White House directed questions about it to a tight-lipped Pentagon. But aside from this claim of an Iraqi long-range threat to the East Coast apparently having been totally wrong, it was also far more alarming a claim than was ever put before the public. (It was also a claim likely to have been ripped apart by non-government experts -- was that why it was only whispered in a few Senatorial ears?) Isn't it time for Senators to speak out frankly about what they were told about Iraq? After all, it sounds like they got a different story than the rest of us. thenation.com