Rockefeller Lied

John D. Rockefeller chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee that recently released a report who supposedly showed that George Bush misled people in the run-up to the Iraq War.

In today's Washington Post - Fred Hiatt looks at the report and comes to the conclusion that it is Rockefeller that is the one being misleading.

Here's the problem I have with this whole situation - to believe Rockefeller you would first have to accept the premise that Rockefeller can look into the situation as an uninterested, impartial third party. That just isn't so. In fact it was Rockefeller not Bush who had made up his mind:

"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 spoke Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) on "Fox Sunday" on November 14, 2005, who at the time of his trip was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and is now its vice chairman.

So if Rockefeller was not able to show that Bush had cooked the books in this latest Senate Report - then Rockefeller's actions would look almost treasonous. Should anyone be surprised that Rockefeller's conclusions seem to support Rockefeller's own earlier actions? And what were the consequences of Rockefeller's earlier actions?

For the past two years, international security experts like John Loftus have been saying that because the U.N. and French obstructionists delayed the United States entrance into the Iraq war for over a year, Saddam Hussein — having been forewarned by Sen. Rockefeller’s solo mission to the Arab world — was busy ferreting his WMD out of Iraq.

Loftus, an attorney and former Justice Department prosecutor, once held some of the highest security clearances in the world, with special access to NATO Cosmic, CIA codeword, and Top Secret Nuclear files.