SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The – I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I’ll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq – that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.
FP: Ok, so where did the WMDs go? Tierney: While working counter-infiltration in Baghdad, I noticed a pattern among infiltrators that their cover stories would start around Summer or Fall of 2002. From this and other observations, I believe Saddam planned for a U.S. invasion after President Bush’s speech at West Point in 2002. President Bush's West Point speech was given on June 1, 2002, and Tierney's timeline for WMD movement from Iraq seems tied with Rockefeller's visit as much as Bush's speech. Did Bush's speech confirm in Saddam's mind the information Assad had relayed to him from a member of the Senate Intelligence committee? "Mesh" away, if you know what I mean. (Powerline to Go)
Treason? In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation.
remember back in November of 2003 when Fox news reported:
WASHINGTON — Fox News has obtained a document believed to have been written by the Democratic staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee (search) that outlines a strategy for exposing what it calls "the administration's dubious motives" in the lead-up to the war in Iraq --- the memo that according to Rockefeller was not meant for public distribution?
In a statement, Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said that the memo "appears to be a road map for how the Democrats intend to politicize what should be a bipartisan, objective review of prewar intelligence."
It is obvious that the liberal plan which began over 2 years ago, is in full swing - today.
Great opinion piece, "But that doesn't diminish what was once reasonable to believe. He calls attention to the remarks of Chief Inspector Hans Blix in a briefing to the Security Council in 2002, that it was imperative that Iraq furnish strong proof of the claim that there were no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons left in Iraq. "[I]t would need to provide convincing documentary or other evidence," Mr. Blix said of Iraq at the time. "Production of mustard gas is not exactly the same as production of marmalade." Only months before we went to war against Iraq, Mr. Blix found 122-mm chemical rocket warheads in a bunker 105 miles southwest of Baghdad, and wrote that "they could also be the tip of a submerged iceberg." (Icebergs in the desert? But we got his point.) If, as Mr. Blix now claims, he was only being cautious and that the president "misled himself," Mr. Blix gave the president considerable assistance"(A tangled web of lies
By Suzanne FieldsNovember
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