Why Not as Many WMDs as Expected Were Found: Jay Rockefeller Explains It All
On Fox News Sunday (from Bill Bennett column in National Review; HT Lucianne; bold is mine):
(Chris) WALLACE: Now, the President never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn’t it Jay Rockefeller?
SEN. (Jay) ROCKEFELLER: No. The — I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I’ll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq — that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.
So assuming that the heads of state believed him (safe assumption–he’s on the Intelligence Committee), Saddam had a full 15 months’ warning to hide or transfer out weapons of mass destruction and related technology out of the country. Thanks, Senator Rockefeller–traitor.
It’s a wonder that we have found enough WMDs to support that one justification among many others for the invasion (the site linked isn’t supportive of the War, but the reasons it lists in the bottom half of the page are mostly spot-on). And yes, we have found WMDs.
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Nov. 15 Outside the Beltway Jammer.
