Topic: Iraq War
I am tired of many of the so-called News Commentators or Pundits constantly implying, “Well he/she voted to go to war”. They usually give that comment to degrade the intelligence or the integrity of the person they are referring to, or imply that the person has no belief or conviction in what they say or have said in the past.
I would like to point out to these so-called experts that the reason that most of the Senators and Congressmen or Congresswomen voted that way is because they were attempting to show the world that we Americans trust our leaders, and voted to demonstrate that trust.
What they were voting on was the fact that they were led to believe, that by looking into the Secret Pentagon data that their positions allowed them access to, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, all proclaimed that they had seen definite incontrovertible evidence that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction of Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Capabilities. Now since the Senators and Representatives do not have access to these Secret Pentagon Papers, they had to take the word of those people who do have access to them.
And since Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice kept repeating these statements over and over, congress naturally had to believe they were true and accurate statements, so they cast their votes to give support to The Commander in Chief and stop the “Madman” Hussein, and not because they personally believed that going to war was a good idea, and so wouldn’t we all.
When the war was in progress and no WMDs were found and facts were finally uncovered, we discover that there were no such Secret Pentagon Documents describing WMDs at all, and Bush Cheney, Rice , and Rumsfeld were all lying through their teeth, just to get the vote to go to war.
So I would like to have all these High and Mighty News Pundits who are condemning the people who voted to support the Commander in Chief, take a lie detector test to show how they would have reacted at that particular time, rather than the Monday Morning Quarterbacking they are involved in now.
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