Liberal Kneejerking At Its Worst

The talking heads will certainly have a field day today following CNN's airing the words of President Bush's National Security Adviser.

Bloomberg News Service says:

The Bush administration had no intention of misleading the public even though pre-war intelligence about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction was ``wrong,'' Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor, told the Cable News Network.

``This was a collective intelligence judgment. It was relied on by the prior administration and other world leaders, the Congress, the president of the United States,'' Hadley said. ``Turns out we were wrong.''

Hadley said that allegations that the president tried to manipulate the information to build a case for war ``are flat wrong.'' The Senate Intelligence Committee and a separate commission on the intelligence capabilities of the U.S. concluded ``there was no manipulation of intelligence,'' Hadley said.

Hadley is saying that the information on the WMD's was wrong and not manipulated, that the intelligence was bad, leading to a flawed decision. But that's simply not good enough for left-wing Democrats. Their attitude seems to be "So what? We don't like Bush, so the truth is that he must have lied to the world about it."

The Bloomberg report continues:

Former North Carolina Senator and Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards wrote in a Washington Post editorial column [Sunday] that his vote in favor of an October 2002 joint resolution authorizing the use of U.S. armed forces against Iraq in was based on '``inaccurate'' intelligence. ``Had I known that at the time, I would have never voted for this war,'' Edwards wrote.

Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, also blamed faulty intelligence for his vote. ``I would have never voted yes if I knew what I know today,'' he said on Fox News Sunday.

``I think the Democrats always have to stand up and tell the truth,'' said Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. ``And that's what we're doing. The truth is that the president misled America when he sent us to war.''

Dean's statement is a perfect example of what I think the left-wing Democratic attitude is: "So what? We don't like Bush, so the truth is that he must have lied to the world about it."

Last Tuesday, Sean Hannity presented a litany of quotes, none taken out of context, by Liberals like Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer, who were part of a good-sized list of Democrats who enthusiastically backed President Clinton's decision to attack Iraq after he argued that Saddam Hussein was prepared to use chemical, biological and nuclear weapons against the world.

If that information was based on bad intelligence, don't they, and anyone who believe as they do, have to admit that Clinton lied to the world as well?

Because if he gets a free pass based on bad intelligence collected on his watch, then President Bush is owed a long-overdue apology.

It's one thing to change your mind after you've learned that you made a decision based on bad information. After that discovery, you would be rightfully indignant at the very least if you are accused of being a liar.

No one has accused any of these far-left-wingers of lying about their reasons for formerly backing an invasion which they are not saying was a bad decision.

For them to not afford the President the same judgement and to continue to accuse him of lying about it mainly because they hate his politics is simply illogical, smear politicking at its worst.

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