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To: combjelly who wrote (463471)	3/12/2009 11:48:55 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578818

Actually, I did. And I didn't just cherry pick like you did. I actually read the conclusions. You do understand that it was a partisan report prepared by the Democrats, right? It was all the Rs could to get the examples starting on page 103 inserted into the text. Essentially, meaningless, other than the quotes the Rs have inserted which prove my original point that they were all working off the same intel, that they were all in agreement until the war turned out to be more difficult than expected, and the Ds ran like hell to change history. I'm not sure how a person can claim to be informed on this subject (e.g., Chris Matthews) and conveniently forget that every significant D in Congress agreed with what we were doing, based on the intel that was available -- not to the public at large, but to members of Congress, the intel committes, and the president. The Ds did a great job of taking advantage of GWB's inability to articulate the policy -- that much, I'll give you. They are experts at it and the Rs are weak as hell at refuting it. It was never "just" about WMD. It was never "just" about terrorism. The most informed intellectual Ds in the land -- Friedman and Hitchens, for example -- fully supported the war because the Mideast needed to eject Saddam and simply could not do it on its own. The terrorist ties were there, but mild. The WMD had been there and would have been back had we not removed him. And every almost every important D in congress supported it. When you go to war you cannot change your mind a couple months later if things don't turn out as planned. The Ds, effectively, changed their minds and laid all the blame on Bush, conveniently forgetting their own involvement. The buck stopped with Bush, and Ds took no responsibility for their own actions whatsoever. Why are we not surprised.