Have you noticed that the Bush administration is always duping the Democrats? Just listen to John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, Hillary Clinton, or Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. They voted for the war in Iraq. They walked onto the Senate floor to explain their vote. Saddam possessed chemical and biological weapons. He wanted nuclear weapons. He had ties to terrorists. He was a serial violator of UN resolutions and, yes, Saddam was an imminent threat. Fast forward to the Spring 2003. Saddam’s statue had been toppled but no weapons of mass destruction had been found. High-profile Democrats were not so sure they wouldn’t be found, so they kept silent. If the weapons were uncovered (as President Clinton’s defense secretary expected), they could still share credit with the president for disarming a tyrant. If no stockpiles were located, they could turn around and blame it on the president. It wasn’t until well after March 2003 that Democrats trotted out the “Bush lied on wmd” routine in full force. Then came the backfilling on their Iraq war authorization vote. Kerry, Rockefeller, Reid, Hillary Clinton, et al. were duped into voting for the war because the White House manipulated the intelligence and painted a false portrait of Saddam Hussein. Sen. Clinton’s “Letter to Constituents on Iraq Policy” is a good example of the “I was duped” fantasy. But the story doesn’t end there. Now, the White House duped those Democrats who were reportedly informed about the NSA surveillance program — an operation that spied on al Qaeda communications with persons inside the U.S. Like the Iraq war authorization vote, the White House tricked them once again into going along with their spy plan. Boy, those Democrats are a gullible lot. Voters will surely want to put them in charge of the House and Senate come November.
