The President lied again today
In his speech today, President Bush said:
That is not true. As kovie at Dailykos points out, this article in The Nation completely debunks the President's claim that Congress had access to the same intelligence.
UPDATE: Today's Washington Post has more on this:
...more than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate -- who had access to the same intelligence -- voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power.
That is not true. As kovie at Dailykos points out, this article in The Nation completely debunks the President's claim that Congress had access to the same intelligence.
UPDATE: Today's Washington Post has more on this:
President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence.
Neither assertion is wholly accurate.
The administration's overarching point is true: Intelligence agencies overwhelmingly believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and very few members of Congress from either party were skeptical about this belief before the war began in 2003. Indeed, top lawmakers in both parties were emphatic and certain in their public statements.
But Bush and his aides had access to much more voluminous intelligence information than did lawmakers, who were dependent on the administration to provide the material.
(emphasis mine)
