Bush Administration Lied to the Senate (Warblogging)

[BlueEyedSon]

http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000776.php

Well, there's a very good reason why the United States Senate voted in favor of an invasion and occupation of Iraq. Florida Today reports today that U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat, has come clean on what happened before the war powers act resolution was passed.

Senator Nelson says that 75 senators received a classified briefing "before last October's congressional vote". In that classified briefing a Bush Administration official told the senators "that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but that they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities."

Knowing what we know today — and even knowing what we knew then — that statement is absurd on its face. But apparently the senators believed this lie. Senator Nelson apparently did — he voted for the war.

[grannylib]

1. Of course they did, and we know it and they know it, and dollars to donuts

they'll get away with it because they are filthy Rethuglican scum.
If this had happened under Clinton can you imagine the firestorm???

[priller]

2. John Bolton

Good guess that he was the big liar here. Good lord, what a disaster he's been! Anyone remember his contention that Cuba was developing biological weapons that could be delivered via mosquitoes? I kid you not! The anti-Castro bullshitters are as full of it as Chalabi's gang of merry fibbers.