From the editorial: “In 2004, the Senate Intelligence Committee unanimously approved a report acknowledging that it “did not find any evidence that administration officials attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgments.” The following year, the bipartisan Robb-Silberman report similarly found “no indication that the intelligence community distorted the evidence regarding Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.”

There was not an imminent threat from an Iraq armed with WMDs in 2003.

The argument was that we had to act before the threat became imminent. And we did just that, as postwar findings only validate that as flawed as our intell was, Saddam had the intent and capabilities of reconstituting his weapons programs within 3-5 weeks of sanctions being lifted.

You also seem confused on the point of contention, here.

There were, in fact, no WMDs at all.

Not entirely true.

And there was no relationship with al-Qaeda.

Not entirely true. In fact, you’re flatout wrong.

The bias you mention is illustrated in spades by the ‘amendments’ and the ‘comments’. Partisan hackery beyond belief.

Far from ‘150 examples’ of ‘Democrats misleading the American people’ these ‘amendments’ underscore the basic facts over and again.

There was not an imminent threat from an Iraq armed with WMDs in 2003. There were, in fact, no WMDs at all. And there was no relationship with al-Qaeda.

And, most important, the Administration knew all of this.

Cheers.

The new IRAQ strategy is working, even the CIA has admitted that al-Qaida has been crippled in IRAQ. In May of 2008, a group of researchers from Harvard authored a report “Is There an “Emboldenment” Effect? – Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq” which shows that negative media coverage — and adverse commentary by U.S. political leaders — produce a statistically measurable increase in enemy activity. This negative coverage and commentary has become the mainstay in our education system, fostering the myth that America is bad, and creating a supportive environment for anti-war politicians running for office. The sad part of all of this, is that most of this coverage, like Senate report here contains mis-truths and lies that are worse than anything President Bush has been accused of.

I’m declaring July public action for victory month. We know we can’t change the folks with BDS, or the liberal media, and education system. We have to start taking individual action. We need to not fear telling people that we are proud of President Bush, he and our allies made decisions based on the best information available at the time. If he hadn’t acted, we know from many post-war documents that Saddam would have re-started his WMD programs once the UN sanctions were lifted, and we know that the oil for food program was lining the pockets of countries and individuals that would help to get those sanctions lifted. What would have happened if this happened, and a WMD was used against some target here in the United States? We can expect that the Senate would be holding impeachment hearings because President Bush didn’t act on the intelligence he had available to him.

Stand up and be proud, don’t nod your head when someone complains about the war, tell them what you feel, and ask them what they are doing to help end it, because a supportive public will crush those pushing false propaganda.

That report is just incredible