The Big Question
Two moderate Republicans enabled the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller to finally release the Senate report on intelligence leading to the invasion of Iraq. Rockefeller said: "The administration, in its zeal to promote public opinion in the United States for toppling Saddam Hussein, pursued a deceptive strategy prior to the war of using intelligence reporting that the intelligence community warned was uncorroborated, unreliable, and in critical instances, fabricated."
Iraq is one of the great foreign policy disasters in our history, because the Bush regime didn't do the planning. They didn't send in enough troops. They didn't keep the Iraqi army intact. They didn't keep a civil structure. They made every mistake possible and there's been no accountability .
General Casey and Secretary of State Rice have said you can't resolve the differences in Iraq militarily and that they have to be resolved diplomatically and politically. Every time Bush says we're there for as long as it takes and that the next president is going to make the decision about withdrawal of our troops. He's telling the Shia death squads and Sunni insurgents that they have plenty of time to jockey for power, because our military is going to be their crutch for many years.
The way to pressure these warring factions to come together and assume responsibility for the future of Iraq is to have a major diplomatic summit to resolve the differences between Shia and Sunni. By setting a firm withdrawal date, we can accelerate the pressure on them and bring our troops home.
My question to congressional Republicans that continue to unequivocally support Bush's quagmire is: "How do you ask a man to die for a mistake?" Most members of Congress made a mistake. However, the Bush regime knowingly lied to the United Nations, Congress and the American people.
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truth without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition." ~Thomas Jefferson
Iraq is one of the great foreign policy disasters in our history, because the Bush regime didn't do the planning. They didn't send in enough troops. They didn't keep the Iraqi army intact. They didn't keep a civil structure. They made every mistake possible and there's been no accountability .
General Casey and Secretary of State Rice have said you can't resolve the differences in Iraq militarily and that they have to be resolved diplomatically and politically. Every time Bush says we're there for as long as it takes and that the next president is going to make the decision about withdrawal of our troops. He's telling the Shia death squads and Sunni insurgents that they have plenty of time to jockey for power, because our military is going to be their crutch for many years.
The way to pressure these warring factions to come together and assume responsibility for the future of Iraq is to have a major diplomatic summit to resolve the differences between Shia and Sunni. By setting a firm withdrawal date, we can accelerate the pressure on them and bring our troops home.
My question to congressional Republicans that continue to unequivocally support Bush's quagmire is: "How do you ask a man to die for a mistake?" Most members of Congress made a mistake. However, the Bush regime knowingly lied to the United Nations, Congress and the American people.
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truth without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition." ~Thomas Jefferson
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