Nobody’s been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
BOB GRAHAMGen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq – a war more than a year away.
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A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
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We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.
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Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies.
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There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition,
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The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word.
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I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
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We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
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Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
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I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
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Its fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
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This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th.
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The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
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I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
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Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq – a war more than a year away.
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