Via Professor Reynolds, go see this excellent post at CrushKerry.com wherein Barbara Boxer's nonsense spouted to Dr. Rice about WMD being the sole reason for the Congressional resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq is refuted:
BOXER: Well, you should read what we voted on when we voted to support the war, which I did not, but most of my colleagues did. It was WMD, period. That was the reason and the causation for that, you know, particular vote.Yes. The "causation." What a fucking lightweight.
Anyway, the guys at CrushKerry.com give it to her with both barrels. After going through the full text of the resolution, boldfacing the multiple reasons why we went to war for Iraq, they sum it up:
1. Iraq's harboring of Al-Queda terroristsI didn't get to watch but maybe an hour of the hearings, but the above remark made by Boxer to Rice happened to have caught my ear. Weapons of mass destruction certainly were a major cause of our intervention, but they were never the sole cause. But that is how the anti-war Left chooses to remember things. It is in keeping with their hyperlegalist mentality ---which, rather than being a matter of principle, is intended only to obstruct. As in the insistence that only United Nations resolutions authorizing force are legitimate or that the Geneva Conventions apply to terrorists. Both of these legal avenues are littered with the anti-war Left's desperate garbage.
2. Iraq's support for International Terrorism
3. Iraq's "brutal repression" of its citizens
4. Iraq's failure to repatriate or give information on non-Iraqi citizens detained and captured during Gulf War I, including an American serviceman;
5. Failing to properly return property wrongfully seized during the Kuwait invasion
6. The attempted assassination of former President Bush in 1993
7. America's national security interests in restoring peace and stability to the Persian Gulf
Crush these hypocrites. They are friends to monsters.
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