Not just Clinton: 94 Senators didn't read Pre-Iraq War Report

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: Records: Senators who OK'd war didn't read key report
May 29, 2007


A new book about Hillary Clinton says she did not read a critical intelligence report before voting to authorize the war in Iraq. Other senators also did not read the report.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has once again raised the issue of whether members of Congress read a key intelligence report before the 2002 vote to authorize war in Iraq.

Clinton did not read the 90-page, classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, according to "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton."

For members of Congress to read the report, they had to go to a secure location on Capitol Hill. The Washington Post reported in 2004 that no more than six senators and a handful of House members were logged as reading the document....

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Candidate and then-Sen. John Edwards "read and was briefed on the intelligence" while sitting on the Senate Intelligence Committee, a spokesman said. Edwards has called his vote for the 2002 resolution a mistake. Another Democratic candidate, Sen. Joseph Biden, said he read the report.

A spokesman for presidential candidate Sen. Christopher Dodd said the Connecticut Democrat did not read the document, either.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona also voted in favor of the resolution without reading the report....

Other candidates were not available for comment Monday....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/28/clinton.iraq/index.html

[IChing]

1. The flightpath wasn't changed

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. They had more important things to do..like fundraising.

[acmavm]

3. If you're referring to the thread from early early this a.m., it wasn't

directed at Mrs. Clinton alone.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x990380

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Not at all. I'm sorry -- I wasn't aware of that post. nt

[acmavm]

8. No, I didn't mean it that way, I just thought that you were referring

to it. That's all.

[DeepModem Mom]

11. No prob!

:)

[Hubert Flottz]

5. I don't know why Karl went to all the trouble to write it!

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Good one! nt

[OHdem10]

7. I do not mean to sound disrespectful but the unfortunately , the

truth is they did not need to read it. Close your eyes
and think carefully back to that time. As a group, the
House and Senate had decided it made them look strong
to support the president. They would not listen to any
of us, who told them by EMail, Phone, or letters. that
the exacr opposite was true.

Senator Bob Graham, formerly Senator from Fla. read
the bill in its entirety. He gave speeches explaining
there was not enough evidence in the intellegence to
go to war. He made a run for President. The Rove
Machine went to work in Fla against one of the best
Govenors and Senators Fla has ever had. BoB Graham is
no longer in the Senate.

This is why they did not read the intelligence report.
It is called FEAR.

[still_one]

9. Tell me about those that did, such as Russ Feingold...

How to solve the problems we have today require a new way of thinking, and there is no reason to believe that those who created these problems can solve them

[Rydz777]

10. Sadly it's part of a larger problem, the casual way in which we

go to war. The Constitution gives the Congress the power to declare war, but World War II was the last war in which Congress made a declaration. Ever since, we slide into them with "resolutions" - which as we see in this case didn't even get the attention of a close reading.