Pat Roberts Lies Again 
The Robb-Silberman commission wasn't authorized to examine the Bush Administration's misuse of pre-war intelligence; the "independent" commission appointed by Bush was a joke.
...President Bush was pressured into creating this panel in February 2004. Though bipartisan, its membership lacked stature or independence, and Mr. Bush failed to give the commission a sweeping mandate that would go beyond rehashing the distressing but well-known shortcomings of the intelligence agencies.I know that the GOP can only advance it's sick, corrupt agenda with deceit, but it never ceases to astound me when I catch a Republican telling a lie as bald-faced as this one....Sadly, there is nothing [in the commision's report] about the central issue - how the Bush administration handled the intelligence reports on Iraq's weapons programs and presented them to the public to win support for the invasion of Iraq. All we get is an excuse: the panel was "not authorized" to look at this question, so it didn't bother. The report says the panel "interviewed a host of current and former policy makers" about the intelligence on Iraq, but did not "review how policy makers subsequently used that information."
...As it stands, the report has mainly negative value. It reminds us that the Senate Intelligence Committee has yet to complete and publish its [Phase I & II] investigation of the handling of the Iraq intelligence. And it shows us what the 9/11 panel's report might have looked like if Mr. Bush had succeeded in making Henry Kissinger chairman.
I can not wait until November 2006, when the American people will flush the human sewage that comprises the GOP out of the Senate majority.
KEYWORDS: Iraq War, Bush Administration, Pat Roberts
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