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Originally Posted by roachboy
politicophile:
i do not understand why you find that democrats voted for bushwar to be a source of anything for you. i fail to see any argument that would make of the fact that the democrats on the intel commtitee voted along with the administration on this either a demonstration or falsification of anything. when i said that i thought your argument was arbitrary, i meant that i see nothing surprising or interesting or significant about the votes.
as for folk finding themselves to have been duped, see above.
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There seem to be four possibilities, one and exactly one of which is true:
1. Senator Feinstein did not receive the same intelligence that President Bush did. Her vote in favor of authorizing the use of force was based on this insufficient intelligence and she now realizes her vote was wrong.
2. Senator Feinstein received the same intelligence that President Bush did. However, she is extremely stupid and was convinced by the President's rhetoric (and by "the climate of his high approval rating, just after his 9/11 anniversary propaganda campaign") that the patriotic thing was to authorize the use of force, despite the fact that the intelligence in no way supported this conclusion. She has now returned to her senses and realizes her vote was wrong.
3. Senator Feinstein received the same intelligence that President Bush did. She is a part of the Bush/Rove/lumpenconservative/Christian Right conspiracy to reap oil profits from the invasion of Iraq, so she obeyed Emperor Rove's command that she vote in favor of authorizing the use of force. She has now realized that she isn't going to get the money she was promised, so she now claims that her vote was wrong.
4. Senator Feinstein received the same intelligence that President Bush did. She carefully analyzed it and came to the same conclusion that 12 of her 17 committee members came to: she honestly believed in light of the available evidence that invading Iraq was the right thing to do. Now, in a brilliant political move, she has accused the President of acting against the available intelligence. She weakly claims that the President receives weekly memos that could conceivably have provided him with additional intelligence that Feinstein never saw. Feinstein does not know whether this additional intelligence exists or what it might have indicated, but the best political move is for her to insinuate that her vote was proper in light of the limited intelligence she received, but that Bush's decision to invade was improper in light of broader intelligence.
Which of these scenerios (or which fifth scenerio) do you think is true? I especially pose this question to Roachboy and Host, but welcome other responses as well.