I didn't read it. But I don't know who did.
The Words of House Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), when asked by Human Events if he read the 2002 prewar National Intel Estimate, Nov. 15, 2005.
Gee, Harry, how then do you know if the President misled the country into war? How can you you sit in judgement of the failures of the President when you did not even take the time to carefully read prewar intelligence before sending our soldiers into Iraq? Could it be you and Johnny "Libelling Two Generations of Troops" Kerry simply voted for the war to try to get political gain going into the midterm elections? I think so. I wrote previously on WMD about the context of that vote to go to war. The Dems were not wanting the Republicans to get the "going to war" bump and have the Dems be seen again as the weak party of foreign policy, so they demanded a debate, more like a "I support the war more than you do" event, where most of the dems roundly recalled Saddam's dangers to the West and authorized the use of force.
They saw it merely in terms of political gain and loss, no different than the way they see it now. If Harry and Co. were so concerned about sending our soldiers to war, why didn't they read the NIE that THEY had specifically asked for?
Of course, people like jd and Harry Reid will go on to say, well, just because only SIX total senators read the report doesn't mean Bush didn't cook up the intel. Well, there was an investigation into that: The Chuck Robb led Presidential Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction found in March that there was no evidence, none, of any strongarming or the like in ginning up prewar intel. None. Oh, and by the way, Chuck Robb is a Democrat former Senator.
Of course, Robb must have been brainwashed by Karl Rove, and so what if Senators Reid, Schumer, CLinton, Kerry, and others didn't read the report. I mean, they only committed our troops to combat, right?
