Summary
With disastrous timing - immediately before the fifth anniversary of 11 September - the committee published a pains taking report on how the administration had been methodically spoon-fed false information from the Iraqi National Congress and Ahmad Chalabi; there was also an even more disturbing report detailing the "intelligence" used to substantiate the claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Ideally, the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate would like to be free to coast to victory on two simple themes: that the country has endured eight years of a Republican president and 14 years of a Republican Congress that, between them, have botched everything and left the world in a terrible mess, and it is high time for change.
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America: Where Normal Is Extreme
Just before the 9/11 Celebrations - I do not use that word flippantly; that is how it sometimes seemed here - a leading Democrat said something extraordinary. It was in an interview with CBS News, yet CBS did not see fit to broadcast so much as a fleeting reference to what he had said in its main evening bulletin that day. Senator Jay Rockefeller, the og-year-old vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said that the United States would be much safer today if Saddam Hussein was still in power.
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