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Byrd Says Bush Built ’House of Cards’ on Iraq War
2003-05-21
Some guys just don't quit digging when their holes already deep enough
Sen. Robert Byrd, the Senate's most outspoken fool critic of President Bush, on Wednesday accused him of constructing a "house of cards, built on deceit" to justify the war against Iraq. Byrd of West Virginia, the Senate's senior Democrat who has repeatedly condemned the war to oust Saddam Hussein, accused the Bush administration of luring the American public into war by inflating threats posed by Saddam, bungling the war's aftermath and awarding reconstruction contracts "to administration cronies."
"And you haven't named any of the new facilities after me dammit"
"Eventually, like it always does, the truth will emerge. And when it does, this house of cards, built on deceit, will fall," he said on the Senate floor. While Byrd said the administration "assiduously worked to alarm the public" with threats posed by Iraq, in the war's aftermath it has become "painfully clear" the country posed no immediate threat.
Time to unveal the WMD's now?
Searches for its alleged weapons of mass destruction so far have "turned up only fertilizer, vacuum cleaners, conventional weapons and the occasional buried swimming pool," he said. "Were our troops needlessly put at risk? Were countless Iraqi civilians killed and maimed when war was not really necessary? Was the American public deliberately misled? Was the world?" Byrd also said that by putting off Iraq's move to self-government, "It is all too clear that the smiling face of the U.S. as liberator is quickly assuming the scowl of an occupier."

He said the recent resurgence of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network also showed that instead of weakening terror groups with the Iraq war, "we have given them new fuel for their fury."
And we all know the poor little buggers can't control themselves... Ooops. I said "bugger." My bad...
Byrd criticized congressional colleagues who he said have failed to get answers from Bush on expected costs and time frames for U.S. troops to remain in Iraq, and costs for rebuilding it. "We cower in the shadows while false statements proliferate," he said, accepting "soft answers and shaky explanations because to demand the truth is hard, or unpopular, or may be politically costly."
As opposed to soft heads and shakey hands, huh, Sen Foghorn Leghorn (D-KKK)
Posted by:Frank G

#6  Byrd is what you get when bovine spongiform encephalytis crosses the species boundary and infects a quasi-human. Reference the human/chimp discussion earler - Byrd is a howler monkey.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-05-22 00:35:15  

#5  If Daschle's smart, which he isn't, he put's somebody up in the Senate balcony with a tranquilizer gun and orders to blast away as soon as the Kleagle opens his mouth.
Think it's time for Byrdbrain to head for the "Robert Byrd Federal Alzheimers Clinic"?
Posted by: tu3031   2003-05-21 19:29:11  

#4  More Nazi rhetoric from the old Klansman himself.
Posted by: badanov   2003-05-21 19:00:39  

#3  This byrdbrained beauzeau is not likely to get re-elected, is he?
Posted by: A nonny mouse   2003-05-21 18:24:59  

#2  Bush wouldn't be getting this grief if the war had been named "Operation Robert Byrd".

Posted by: Dushan   2003-05-21 18:06:22  

#1  Unveal? I meant unveil, of course. Unveal is yesterday's post on mad cows
Posted by: Frank G   2003-05-21 17:46:22  

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