Senator Durbin Reveals the Truth At Last — Not!
In his latest verbal fiasco, Senate Richard J. Durbin reveals that he knew all along that the Bush administration misused intelligence on Iraq to lead us into war (here).
“The information we had in the intelligence committee was not the same information being given to the American people. I couldn’t believe it,” Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, said Wednesday when talking on the Senate floor about the run-up to the Iraq war in 2002.
“I was angry about it. [But] frankly, I couldn’t do much about it because, in the intelligence committee, we are sworn to secrecy. We can’t walk outside the door and say the statement made yesterday by the White House is in direct contradiction to classified information that is being given to this Congress.”
What motivated me to publish a post on this topic was Howling Latina’s post. Even Howling Latina could not believe Durbin’s excuse for silence.
However, there is something more subtle that Howling Latina missed. What Durbin’s statement helps to demonstrate is that what the Democratic Party leadership wants us believe that is not true. Democrats want us to believe Bush lied to us about the reasons for invading Iraq. Democrats want us to believe “Bush lied, people died.” Yet all the Republicans and most of the Democrats on the same committee where he (Durbin) supposedly gained his special knowledge, voted for the war.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”
Sir Walter Scott quotes (Scottish Novelist, Poet, Historian and Biographer, 1771-1832)
That’s one interpretation.
Personally, I think they were political wimps. They didn’t have the courage of their conviction to go against the grain. They didn’t believe all that helter-skelter crap about weapons of mass destruction but they didn’t have the balls to say so…
Mimi Schaeffer
April 28, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Mimi – If we go with your interpretation, then we must assume that the vast majority of the people who lead us are moral incompetents. Supposedly, these people took us to war with wholly insufficient justification. Since such people seem to be the best we can find to lead us, one has to wonder why Democrats want to give these people more power over us. Do you have an explanation?
Citizen Tom
April 29, 2007 at 2:45 am
we must assume that the vast majority of the people who lead us are moral incompetents. Supposedly, these people took us to war with wholly insufficient justification.
You’re catching on.:)
Teresa Beau
April 29, 2007 at 3:17 am