Report: CIA Gave False Info on Iraq
Intelligence analysts fell victim to "group think" assumptions that Iraq had weapons that it did not, the bipartisan report concluded. Many factors contributing to those failures are ongoing problems within the U.S. intelligence community -- which cannot be fixed with more money alone, it said.
The committee's top Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, said "Tragically, the intelligence failures set forth in this report will affect our national security for generations to come. Our credibility is diminished. Our standing in the world has never been lower. We have fostered a deep hatred of Americans in the Muslim world, and that will grow. As a direct consequence, our nation is more vulnerable today than ever before."
The panel's Republican chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, will pivot off the report in a news conference Friday morning to argue that Democratic demands for a "phase two" of the investigation examining the administration's decision to invade Iraq are "null and void," as a spokeswoman for the senator put it earlier this week. But Senate Democrats laid the groundwork for their own political defeat in February when they agreed to delay the second phase of the investigation until after the November election.
Our message to Rep. Roberts: WE THE PEOPLE agree with you. We don't need a "phase two"! We do not have time! The morning news has reported that the death toll for U.S.-led coalition in Iraq tops 1,000.
The facts speak for themselves.....the American people were mislead and the administration used this inaccurate data to take us to WAR at a time, when the attackers of 9/11 had not been brought to justice!
We have strayed from the path of finding justice for those murdered from an attack on our soil. And we have brought death for tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and coalition troops.
Take action now! Lets send a clear message that this administration must be held accountable for these actions! A simple vote against the Bush administration is not enough!
It is time for America to stand up! If Clinton can be impeached for lying under oath to the American people, can't impeachment charges be made against George Bush for lying to the American people and taking us to war?
Rep. Henry A. Waxman has constructed a website titled "Iraq on the Record." This site lists all of the Bush Administration's arguments for war.
Let's tell the families of the thousands dead that this is why their father, mother, children, and/or siblings are dead. Its time to impeach!
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