Sunday, June 3, 2012
Covering Their Eyes and Ears as Well as Their Asses, Apparently
Back in September of 2002, every member of the House and Senate was granted full access to the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq and WMD. It was a 92 page document and was fully loaded with doubts, ambiguities, and disagreements with Mr. Bush's assertions. The problem? Well, according to Thomas Ricks's stellar book, "Fiasco", not even a handful of these Congressman and Senators even bothered to read the 5-page summary of it. Nope, folks, these individuals apparently didn't have the time nor the inclination..........................................................................................As for the true bottom-line here - 77 U.S. Senators, 48 Republicans and 29 Democrats, shamelessly and moronically concocted to give a decidedly untested U.S. President what was essentially a blank check. The Republicans - they did it because they wanted to support a Republican President and the Democrats did it because they wanted to seem just as strong on defense/terrorism (especially after a lot of them had already "guessed" wrong on the previous Gulf War). And the way that the whole vote got totally rammed through as if it were simply yet another appropriations bill - Senator Byrd wanting to get it out of the way as soon as possible so it wouldn't be hanging over their heads on election day - that was probably the most disgusting component of all, I'm thinking. Bunch of dumb shits.
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"...Senator Byrd wanting to get it out of the way as soon as possible so it wouldn't be hanging..."
And you had to mention the name of an Exlated Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan in the same sentence with the word "hanging".
dmarks: ...you had to mention the name of an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan...
The Huffington Post: "By Byrd's account, opposing civil rights legislation in the '60s was his greatest legislative mistake, and he would say his eyes were opened later upon seeing a father unable to get water for his young son when the "colored" drinking fountain wasn't working. In his later years, he struggled to make amends and getting money to help finish the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial became a passion".
But you know he regretted his brief stint in the KKK and sought to make amends, so what is the point of your comment? Could it be that he had a "D" after his name and this is purely a partisan attack... even though dmarks CLAIMS he doesn't do that?
It probably is his greatest legislative mistake, for sure, but he had so many leading up to the end of his career.
"this is purely a partisan attack?"
No. I'd never support anyone on either side of the aisle who was so evil as to ever have been in the KKK. No "claims" necessary. It's the truth
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