Well, Mitch.. I'll try to help you out..

One of the things that infuriates me with the Democrats is that they are soooo slow to react, and often do so with such a milque-toast response that you want to throttle them.

Case in point.

On Friday, and continuing today, the President is basically making the case that the Democrats also voted for the War, and that they had access to the exact same intel he did.

Why the Democrats are so tepid about saying -

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Why is it this President seems to have such a problem with the truth?

First, we did not have access to the same information. In October 2001, he reduced the security access of all but a handful of Senators because "Information related to National Security must be handled appropriate," a slap at the Senate implying that we'd leak information. Given the administration's track record, I think they needed to look at their own house first.

What just as important, the President did not release information from the CIA saying that they did NOT consider it likely that Houssien would attack the United States - in fact they considered it HIGHLY unlikely - until the day before the vote. They NEVER presented this fact publicly, they mislead the American people, and appeared to desire to hide it as much as possible from the Senate.

The fact is, he hid information from us, cherry-picked information, or distorted information that you presented to us. We did not have equal access. We didn't have months to analyze details, as you did, we had hours, and the American people had no chance at all, as you didn't release this information to them.

Finally, we didn't vote for a 'war' we voted to give you liberty to address a threat, which it now turns out was NOT immenent, and the CIA told you it wasn't. You, and you alone refused to wait for inspectors even though the leverage you asked for was given, and WAS working. Instead we invaded in a situation where our intelligence said we were unlikely to be able to stabilize the country, he was not going to attack us with whatever exists, and that he didn't have nuclear capability. The preponderance of intelligence did NOT say he did have nuclear capability. The isssue is not that we knew everything you knew, the issue is that you left out things you knew, you failed to present important facts, to us and to the American people, and you rushed into an unecessary, ill-advised war despite the fact that your own intelligence bureau told you that your primary reasoning (immenent threat) was probably incorrect, and you kept THAT fact from us until the day before the vote.

Long and short, you hid, lied, distorted and manipulated facts and now, once again, want to blame everyone but yourself. The buck stops at YOUR door, Mr. President. It's time to be honest.
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Wow. An IMPECCABLE PB impression.

Kudos who whomever wrote that perfect caricature!

""Information related to National Security must be handled appropriate," a slap at the Senate implying that we'd leak information."

WE'D leak information? Which senator has the initials P.B.?

"Given the administration's track record, I think they needed to look at their own house first."

Track record of...oh, you mean the guy who "leaked" "confidential" identification of an undercover agent who:

A) Had not been undercover for 6 years, when the legal definition of undercover is 5 years or less

B) Had been identified as a CIA agent in Vanity Fair magazine

C) Had been identified as Joe Wilson's wife IN JOE WILSON'S OWN BOOK.

oh, THAT track record. Gotcha.

The Valerie Plame Name Blame Game. LAME!