Growing Number in Congress, Public At Odds With Administration Revision of Iraq War Intel

White House press release, November 15, 2005, Setting the Record Straight: The New York Times Editorial on Pre-War Intelligence.

  • WSJ free feature: Majority Believe White House Misleads Public, Poll Shows
  • New York Times: Even Supporters Doubt President as Issues Pile Up
  • Levin and Reed Compare Bush Administration Statements with Intelligence Community Statements on Pre-War Iraq Intelligence
  • Washington Post: The About-Face of a Hawkish Democrat – Murtha, With Many Military Connections, Moves From Voting for War to Urging Troop Withdrawal
  • Seattle Times: Defense hawk Dicks says he now sees war as a mistake
  • Washington Post: What I Knew Before the Invasion, by Bob Graham: “Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize him to take the nation to war. Most of them, though, like their Republican colleagues, did so in the legitimate belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace — that if Hussein was not disarmed, the smoking gun would become a mushroom cloud.”
  • Exit plans dominate war debate: “A recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll found that more than half of respondents want U.S. troops withdrawn from Iraq within the next 12 months.”
  • Newsweek: Bush at the Tipping Point – A hawkish Democrat calls for an Iraq withdrawal, setting off a bitter fight in Washington over how, and when, the troops should come home.
  • Foreign Policy: It’s Not About the Yellowcake, by Jofi Joseph (Jofi Joseph is a former staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he advised members on arms control and nonproliferation.) “The Bush administration’s most critical deception leading up to the war in Iraq had nothing to do with Valerie Plame or yellowcake from Niger.”

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