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Choux |
11/01/05 |
Democrats Force Senate Into Iraq Meeting
By LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, questioning intelligence that President Bush used in the run-up to the war in Iraq and accusing Republicans of ignoring the issue.
``They have repeatedly chosen to protect the Republican administration rather than get to the bottom of what happened and why,'' Democratic leader Harry Reid said....
In a speech on the Senate floor, Reid demanded the Senate go into closed session. The public was ordered out of the chamber, the lights were dimmed, and the doors were closed. No vote is required in such circumstances.
Reid's move shone a spotlight on the continuing controversy over intelligence that President Bush cited in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Despite prewar claims, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, and some Democrats have accused the administration of manipulating the information that was in their possession.
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, was indicted last Friday in an investigation that touched on the war, the leak of the identity of a CIA official married to a critic of the administration's Iraq policy.
``The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq and attempted to destroy those who dared to challenge its actions,'' Reid said before invoking Senate rules that led to the closed session."
The more the Republicans try to stonewall and cover-up the facts surrounding the question of lies about WMD's and the rush to war.....the more decent citizens and decent leaders have to push and push to expose the true facts. |
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