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By Mike Cuenca | February 26, 2004
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Have we become so accustomed to the widespread conflicts of interest in
our current GOP-run government that no one is questioning the
impartiality of Sen. Pat Roberts? He's a co-chairman, along with Sen.
Sam Brownback, of the GOP's efforts here in Kansas to re-elect
President Bush. Who is naïve enough to think that he's not now
protecting the president by blaming the intelligence community for
G.W.'s rush to war?
Long before the war began, the information that Iraq likely did
not have weapons of mass destruction was widely available. Why do you
think the United Nations and all but one of the world's other powerful
nations refused to take part? The existence of the evidence and the
administration's efforts to denigrate and/or ignore all intelligence
that it didn't like have since been widely reported (outside of the
toady press.) You can read for yourself at the New York Review of Books
("Now They Tell Us," Feb. 26) the American Prospect ("Neglecting
Intelligence, Ignoring Warnings," Jan. 28) and even the venerable
Washington Post ("Bush, Aides Ignored CIA Caveats on Iraq," Feb. 7).
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intelligence community told this administration everything it needed to
know to reserve judgment on the existence of those weapons. But this
administration, as we know now, intended to attack Iraq regardless. The
WMD, as we know now, were simply the most horrifying excuse they could
come up with, as Paul Wolfowitz admitted last year. Roberts is
destroying his own credibility by participating in the cover-up.
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Originally published by the Lawrence Journal-World.
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