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Bill Bennett responds to Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia's strange admission to Chris Wallace last Sunday that he had taken

a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq — that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.

Bennett writes:

Senators and congressmen don't have to agree with their president's policies, and they should make the president robustly defend his policies — but they should not be acting as if they are the president or secretary of state; they should not be tipping off sometimes friends and definitive enemies about war plans that not even the president has yet made as policy. This is the true mockery of prewar intelligence, and Senator Rockefeller should fully explain his actions.

If Syria — or elements in Saudi Arabia — began acting on this information before we even went to war in Iraq (more than a year later), then Senator Rockefeller may have seriously harmed, impeded, and hindered our war efforts, our troops, and the entire operation in the Middle East. This should be investigated immediately; and perhaps Senator Rockefeller should step down from the Intelligence Committee until an investigation is complete.

But just observe how this will go down. Unless the President of the United States himself steps up to a microphone this afternoon and questions in the strongest terms possible why Senator Rockefeller would have done such a thing, this admission will sink into the memory hole, never again to be shown to the public by Big Media. George W. Bush will have to actually come out and make this thing a news item if it is to ever be sufficiently appreciated just how fucked up and saboteurish the Democratic Party really is.

I mean, do you know a better adjectival form of sabotage?