the Sugar Conspiracy

Wednesday, October 29, 2003

A glimmer of sense on Capitol Hill

Although Congress will probably grant Bush his $87 billion request for Iraq at the end of the week, it wasn't without some great fightin' words from Sen. Ted Kennedy.

"The trumped up reasons for going to war have collapsed. All the Administration's rationalizations as we prepared to go to war now stand revealed as "double-talk." The American people were told Saddam Hussein was building nuclear weapons. He was not. We were told he had stockpiles of other weapons of mass destruction. He did not. We were told he was involved in 9/11. He was not. We were told Iraq was attracting terrorists from Al Qaeda. It was not. We were told our soldiers would be viewed as liberators. They are not. We were told Iraq could pay for its own reconstruction. It cannot. We were told the war would make America safer. It has not.

"Before the war, week after week after week after week, we were told lie after lie after lie after lie.

"And now, despite the increasingly restless Iraqi population, despite the continuing talk of sabotage, despite the foreign terrorists crossing thousands of miles of border to attack U.S. servicemen and women in Iraq, the Administration still refuses to face the truth or tell the truth. Instead the White House responds by covering up its failures and trying to sell its rosy version of events by repeating it with maximum frequency and volume, and minimum regard for realities on the ground."

There's much, much more.

posted by chris at 8:54 PM
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