BushCo Digs In further on Iraq

Defiant war speech on Veteran's Day uses new GOP Talking Point - Blame the Democrats for voting to go to war on Iraq! (BTW, Air America's Randi Rhodes was right). When in doubt, blame someone else.

The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges," the president said in his combative Veterans Day speech.

While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began," the president said.

Rewrite history? Black kettles all around folks. This constant denial and denial and deflection and distraction and denial is the only strategy of this Administration. BushCo's numbers are in the tank right now. 37%. He concentrates his attack on Dems saying that they are "undercutting" the US forces on the ground and says nothing of the indictment of his Vice President's Chief of Staff for treasonous related activities. That is not very American or patriotic or says nothing of protecting the troops.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, responded:

"Its deeply regrettable that the president is using Veterans Day as a campaign-like attempt to rebuild his own credibility by tearing down those who seek the truth about the clear manipulation of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war," Kennedy said in a statement.

"Instead of providing open and honest answers about how we will achieve success in Iraq and allow our troops to begin to come home," Kennedy said, "the president reverted to the same manipulation of facts to justify a war we never should have fought."

What nobody in the White House wants us to know is that very few Senators and Congresspeople knew the complete details in the run-up to the invasion. The power lays with the Republicans right now, not the Dems, and taking responsibility is not an option for this Administration. Much of the intelligence came from the DIA in the Pentagon, where BushCo puppeteers resided, and even some documents were known to be false. Was this what was presented to Dem and GOP lawmakers at the time before the blank check for war was issued? The false docs can be convincing, especially to Dems, who don't want to be attacked as not protecting their constituents, since politically, they were weak on this front. There is a GOP talking point for everything and the force and overwhelming nature of the situation led some Dems regrettably to vote for war.

Does this mean that they should not question the war now? Now that evidence to the contrary has arrived? No. Situations and people change and officials have an obligation to their constituents to lead with integrity and with the peoples' best interests in mind. Now that the evidence that the White House and Pentagon lied about pre-war intelligence on Iraq, Dems and even Repubs are prudent to believe they are right to investigate - not for politics, but for people...