Fwd: [ cacklinggrackle] The lies of John Edwards

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Patrick Crumhorn <patrik

Dec 5, 2005 10:22 AM

[cacklinggrackle] The lies of John Edwards

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" The apology of John Edwards, former Senator and 2004 Democratic vice

presidential candidate, for voting for the Iraq war in 2002, has been

widely praised. But his apology is based on a lie, one that other

Democrats are likely to embrace and one which will serve their

ambitions but hide the truth. We should have no illusions about this,

for to believe otherwise is to set ourselves up for the continuation

of Bush's war by a Democrat.

 

" Edwards declared in an op-ed column in the Washington Post on

November 13, 2005: 'The argument for going to war with Iraq was based

on intelligence that we now know was inaccurate. The information the

American people were hearing from the president -- and that I was

being given by our intelligence community -- wasn't the whole story.

Had I known this at the time, I never would have voted for this war. "

Sounds simple enough. " Had I known then what I know now, etc.' Poor

John Edwards was deceived. But was he? How was it that 21 other

Democratic Senators and 2 Republicans were not deceived and voted

against the war?

 

" Part of the answer arrived in another op-ed the Washington Post one

week later, November 20, 2005, by another former Senator, Bob Graham,

entitled: 'What I knew Before the Invasion.' Like Edwards, Graham was

a member, in fact the chair, of the Senate Select Intelligence

Committee in the period leading up to the war and on October 11, 2002

when the vote on the war on Iraq was taken. In a nutshell, Graham

tells us that everyone on that committee knew that Bush was lying

about weapons of mass destruction.

 

Full article at:

http://www.counterpunch.com/walsh12052005.html