Today McClatchy reports that a Senate Committee headed by John D. Rockefeller IV, D- W. Va that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney knowingly lied in the run up to the Iraq war.
WASHINGTON— A long-awaited Senate Select Intelligence Committee report made public Thursday concludes that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney made public statements to promote an invasion of Iraq that they knew at the time were not supported by available intelligence.
... the Senate report is the first official examination of whether the president and vice president knew that their claims were incorrect at the time they made them.
Among the reports conclusions:
• Claims by President Bush that Iraq and al Qaida had a partnership "were not substantiated by the intelligence."
• The president and vice president misrepresented what was known about Iraq’s chemical weapons capabiliies.
• Rumsfeld misrepresented what the intelligence community knew when he said Iraq's weapons productions facilities were buried deeply underground.
• Cheney's claim that the intelligence community had confirmed that lead Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in 2001 was not true.
So to quote Hillary Clinton a few nights ago: "Where do we go from here?"
I say impeachment and trial for obvious war crimes is in order. Not only have 4,000+ American soldiers been killed but hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis have died as a result of these knowing lies as well.
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