As rationales for war erode, issue of blame looms large

[dArKeR]

By Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus
Updated: 11:54 p.m. ET July 09, 2004

Yesterday's report by the Senate intelligence committee left in shreds two of the Bush administration's main rationales for the war in Iraq: that Iraq had illicit weapons and that it cooperated with al Qaeda.

The conclusions are not earthshaking by themselves. Although President Bush and Vice President Cheney have not abandoned either rationale, both were already tattered after similar doubts were voiced over many months by U.S. weapons inspectors in Iraq, the commission probing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA officials and others.

The larger question is whether voters will blame the White House for these two massive mistakes. Though officially agnostic on the White House role in using Iraq intelligence (that will come in a later report), the committee gives ammunition both to Bush and Democratic opponent John F. Kerry.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5406576/

aWol hasn't been responsible for anything in his life. Couldn't even take the responsibility for hiding his DUIs. Like ALL Fundimentalist Christian men would do, he blamed it on his children. His baby twin girls. I've never heard of ANY politician using his children as a political shield before, never! I thought a Fundimentalist Christian man's upmost duty was to PROTECT HIS CHILDREN AT ALL COSTS! Sort of like a United States of America Marine Corps pledge to honor and defend our country and family!

Bush, you and your family are nothing but a cowards!

[Hailtothechimp]

1. Cowards! Every last one of them! n/t

[Journeyman]

2. This was the first use of The Bush Doctrine. . .

and it has proved a miserable failure. Who else is responsible for it than the man who promulgated it?

[VolcanoJen]

3. Good headline, and page A01. KICK!!

Wake up, America...

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