'The scariest man in Washington' Guardian interview with Henry Waxman

[maddezmom]

'The scariest man in Washington'


Ewen MacAskill meets the Democratic congressman snapping at Republican heels on issues from Iraq to global warming

Monday May 14, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

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Scourge of the Republicans - Democratic congressman Henry Waxman. Photograph: Stephen J Boitano/AP

Henry Waxman, the most dogged of congressional committee chairmen, has been described by Republicans as 'the scariest man in Washington'.

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In an interview in his office overlooking Congress, he said his main concern is to discover why Mr Bush took the country to war. The issue has been churned over by journalists, by books from insiders and in reports but Mr Waxman does not feel anyone has yet got to the heart of the matter.

"We have gone to war, lost thousands of people - Americans, British, many more Iraqis - and spent billions of dollars. The whole of the Middle East is in turmoil ... it is hard to know where you are going if you do not know how you got there."

He is aware of the label "the scariest man in Washington" and says he is amused rather than proud of it. "I do not think of myself as scary. I think people who are frightened are not frightened of me but of things they have done, the questions they do not want answered."

Mr Waxman is investigating why Mr Bush, in his state of the union address in 2003, only months before the invasion, cited British intelligence saying that Iraq had tried to secure uranium from Niger for use in a nuclear weapons programme.

more:http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,2079106,00.html

[Demeter]

1. Probably True--Because Nancy Won't Let Conyers Be Conyers!

I thought Pelosi would be an asset to the nation, but she's turning into another pair of cement overshoes.

[Broadslidin]

2. Personally, if a bush Impeachment does not occur, the US empire can go to Hell.

No impeachment simply means,
the Democrat politicians are complicit with
the corporate bought White House blood soaked ghoul.