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...believe. The idea that the U.S. might have gone to war on weak intelligence and a bad hunch damages not just the President's authority but the country's. "Our credibility is a precious national-security asset, and now we have to rehabilitate it," says Senator Evan Bayh, a Democrat on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees. "The American people understand how you can make a mistake. What they won't understand is a refusal to admit the mistake you make. Or take steps to make sure it doesn't happen again...
Bush's panel was not chartered to question how the intelligence was used--but a Senate investigation might. Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee weighed a request by its top Democrat, Jay Rockefeller, calling for the Senate's probe of the CIA's Iraq intelligence to be broadened to examine whether Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Administration officials hyped or otherwise mischievously handled the evidence to build support for the war. Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, postponed action on Rockefeller's motion for at least a week while Roberts measured the mood in his ranks...
...marriage when conservatives wouldn't listen. When the alliance held a press conference to announce the idea in the summer of 2001, Daniels says, "there wasn't any debate going on about a marriage amendment." But by the following May, the alliance had lined up a Congressman--a Democrat, actually--to introduce the Federal Marriage Amendment. Today it has 109 co-sponsors in the House and five in the Senate...
It’s getting to seem like you can’t listen to analysis of this year’s presidential field without hearing the same tiresome comparison of the Democratic and Republican parties’ strengths: Democrats are strong on domestic issues, they say, but Republicans are strong on foreign policy. In this framework, for a Democrat to win he would need to keep the focus of the race on issues like jobs, the economy and Social Security. And if President Bush wants to be reelected, he’ll have to remind people that he?...
...priority now is to make sure that there’s a Democrat in the White House,” he said...