Sen Rockefeller responds to hannity's 'memogate' load of crap

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

in todays charleston daily mail

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Commentary:
Jay Rockefeller

Let's not dodge critical inquiry
Thursday November 20, 2003; 10:09 AM

No decision can be more sobering and important for our president and the country than the decision to send America's sons and daughters to war.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, that decision has become even more difficult. Now the United States may have no choice but to be ready to strike preemptively if a threat from terrorists or rogue nations rises to a clear and present danger.

But initiating war by preemptive attack unquestionably requires that an enemy have not only the desire but also the capability to carry out an attack against our citizens.

In the case of Iraq the president unequivocally told the country that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction of such force and readiness that our nation was at risk.

The president's case was based in part on U.S. and foreign intelligence and in part on the judgments of his administration. I and many others supported the Iraq war resolution largely because of those presentations.

And while today there is no question that Saddam Hussein was a brutal and dangerous dictator, we must face the fact that both the intelligence agencies and the administration increasingly appear to have been wrong in their assessment of the threat Hussein posed to the United States.

Now we must find out why

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[wryter2000]

1. My hero

You tell 'em, Jay.

Is it me, or have the media pretty much ignored the memogates?

[gratuitous]

4. Reputable media folks have rightly ignored the Feith memo

Which means, of course, that William Safliar billboarded it in his column yesterday, citing it as "proof" that Al Qaeda and Saddam were in cahoots, and enabling him to demand a pubic apology from the intelligence community that said there was no such link.

I'd be willing to bet a shiny nickel that Safliar will in no way retract, correct or withdraw his statement, and certainly not in the manner that he called the rest of the CIA and NSA to account.

[Military Brat]

2. In one ear and out the other

Nothing but dead space in a RW skull. Good luck, Jay, getting your logical point across to those hysterical bushies.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. i'm sure the daily mail's resident wingnut

and my personal nemesis don surber will have a 'column' in tomorrow's daily mail quoting jay out of context and offering a bunch of straw man arguments