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Congratulations to the Democrats for finally taking a strong stand against the manipulation of faulty intelligence that got our nation into a phony war with no end in sight. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., showed guts and grit in focusing the nation's attention on the stonewalling by the Bush administration and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who have showed no real desire to get to the bottom of the Iraq debacle.
And, who can really blame these hapless Republicans from letting America know what really happened? The President "fixed" intelligence to send us to war. He sent out Condi, Cheney and Rummy to hard sell the war to the American people with horrible images of mushroom clouds and chemical weapons. They even snookered Colin Powell into making a fool of himself in front of the United Nations.
Now we all know that there were never weapons of mass destruction. The despicable and unpatriotic smear campaign against Joseph Wilson and other dissenters shows the lengths that the administration went to in an effort to cover up their pathological and calculated lies. America deserves to know the entire truth and the Democrats took a powerful symbolic step yesterday by invoking Rule 21, which called for a rare closed door session. Equally interesting was the churlish reaction by sniveling GOP Senate leaders over the maneuver.
"I'm astounded by this," racist Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss, whined. "I don't really know what the tenor of this is, or what the justification for it, and why this extreme, you know, approach was used."
"This was an affront to me personally," Sen. Majority Leader and stock market manipulator Bill Frist, R-Tenn., griped. "It's an affront to our leadership. It's an affront to the United States of America. And it's wrong."
Actually, creating a war under false pretenses, outing CIA agents, stalling an inquiry over war failures and having an indicted House leader is an affront to the United States of America. If only Frist and Lott would get as angry about the more than 2,000 American soldiers killed in their phony war!
The truth is, this maneuver by the Democrats had as much to do with the ill-advised Samuel Alito nomination to the Supreme Court, as it did with investigating the war. Harry Reid shrewdly showed how the Democrats will find technicalities, like Rule 21, to tie the Senate up in knots, if the Republicans use the "nuclear option" to prohibit filibusters for judicial nominees. It is about time the Democrats played hardball with the GOP bullies, who think they are above the law and can steamroll the opposition in the name of misplaced and false patriotism.
Modern conservatism has been a bizarre experiment in poor governance that has failed. The Bush regime has been divisive, destructive, demoralizing and deadly. They have also weakened our military. We can't get enough warm bodies to join the Army and the cold bodies of good soldiers are coming home in body bags that the administration won't allow us to see. If this does not deserve further investigation by the Senate, what does? It is time Republican Sen. Roberts gets off his rump and produces a report showing the truth about what happened. America is fortunate Harry Reid shined a spotlight on this worthy cause and sent a message to the GOP that they are prepared to fight.
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We Democrats have had enough. Ever since the Republicans sent in Nazis to Florida to intimidate vote couters in the Bush/Gore race, we have been seething. If the GOP wants a fight, we are going to kick their sissy asses. We have had enough of these unpatriotic scumbags already. Take note GOP Nazis, the gloves are off.
I only wish it had happened sooner, but better late than never. Its ironic that the republicans went to the trouble of spending over $60 million of taxpayers money under Ken Starr to investigate and prosecute Clinton for something so trivial and undamaging to our country. Now the cry babies are getting a dose of their own medicine but this time for something worthy of investigation, the subversion of government, a treasonous offense. Long overdue, but most welcome. I always say, the wheel goes around.
Icarus and Daedalus have FINALLY flown too close to the sun; may their plunge into the ocean be complete on election day 2006!! Gary (NJ)
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11/03/2005 7:15 AM
