Oh geez, republicons now are quoting Rush Slimebaugh as a reference...
like anyone with a stable mind would listen to that lying loudmouth.
Republicons must be feeling quite desperate stuck in the midst of the
bushee messes.


jjwhitejr2002@yahoo.com (JJWHITEJR) wrote in message news:<3ef5dc6d.5082426@news.sf.sbcglobal.net>...
> Democrats Read Op-ed, Pull Back On WMD
>
> June 20, 2003
>
>
> This an interesting story from Reuters: "U.S. intelligence analysts
> who testified at a closed Senate intelligence committee hearing on
> Thursday stood by their basic prewar assessment that Iraq had weapons
> of mass destruction, said two attendees. A controversy has erupted
> over whether the Bush Administration exaggerated the threat from
> Iraq's alleged weapons. No such weapons have been found.
>
> "Senator Evan Bayh, an Indiana Democrat, said that there was nothing
> that changes the bottom line of prewar assessments that Iraq had
> weapons of mass destruction and the capacity to create voluminous
> quantities of such weapons. He and other Democrats who attended the
> hearings said either they could not make judgments about whether the
> administration hyped the intelligence or they didn't believe outright
> deceit had occurred."
>
> So, some of these Democrats are now pulling back on the weapons of
> mass destruction charges. My friends, I know I have a very healthy ego
> (and it's justified, based on factors) but it was only Thursday that a
> powerful op-ed appeared in The Wall Street Journal, written by me,
> chastising Carl Levin for his blatant hypocrisy.
>
> You can read the editorial right here on this page. I went back to
> 1998, and found in source after source after source Carl Levin, in his
> own words, admitting the weapons were there and urging President
> Clinton to go to war to destroy them. All of a sudden Carl thinks
> somebody lied and that there weren't any weapons. I end the op-ed
> piece by asking, What did Carl Levin know in 1998 that he doesn't know
> now? Strange that on the very day this op-ed appears senators begin to
> pull back from their position of criticizing the administration and
> the CIA. Quite a coincidence, isn't it?
>
> Rush Limbaugh