Matt Hoy, over at Hoystory.com [1] quotes WV senator Jay Rockefeller speaking about his vote for our action against Saddam:
“I voted for it, because I sat approximately 50 feet, you know, looking as I am at you, in front of the president of the United States, telling me that they had nuclear weapons, biological weapons, chemical weapons, and the means to, you know, ballistically send them … weaponize them, and send them in our direction, or through terrorism, through Al Qaeda.
Says Matt:
Read that last paragraph again. Rockefeller is claiming that President Bush told him something that no one in the Bush administration ever said publicly.
Something Secretary of State Colin Powell never claimed when he outlined the case against Saddam Hussein in the U.N. Security Council. And something Rockefeller himself has never claimed before.
Rockefeller just claimed on national TV that President Bush told him Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons and ICBMs. Not developing nuclear weapons. Not desiring nuclear weapons. But having nuclear weapons.”
Matt can’t figure out why the news people missed that flat out lie, and he’s right… taken at face value, it becomes clear Rockefeller is a liar.
But let’s take this a step further. Doesn’t the Senate Intel Committee, of which Rockefeller is a member, have oversight functions? Which is to say, didn’t Rockefeller just admit to the world he fell down on the job, if his claims about what Mr. Bush said were true?
So, if this is the case, Rockefeller is an idiot.
The only question left is which way this will fall out.