Sen. Bob Graham: “What I Knew Before the Invasion”

In the past week President Bush has twice attacked Democrats for being hypocrites on the Iraq war. “[M]ore than 100 Democrats in the House and Senate, who had access to the same intelligence, voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power,” he said.
The president’s attacks are outrageous. Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize [...]

IWR: “The Senate Democrats failed in their responsibility”

Democrats should not tie themselves to the duplicity of recanting pro-war Senate DemocratsThe White House and its supporters obviously believe they have finally come up with an effective tactic against the swirling WMD accusations: namely, repeatedly point out that Democratic Senators who had access to essentially the same intelligence reached the same conclusions as the [...]

Asterisks Dot White House’s Iraq Argument

By Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, November 12, 2005; A01
President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did [...]