| WASHINGTON - The White House sought to deflect politically charged questions Wednesday about President Bush's use of prewar intelligence in Iraq, saying Democrats, too, had concluded Saddam Hussein was a threat.
"If Democrats want to talk about the threat that Saddam Hussein posed and the intelligence, they might want to start with looking at the previous administration and their own statements that they've made," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. He said the Clinton administration and fellow Democrats "used the intelligence to come to the same conclusion that Saddam Hussein and his regime were a threat." |
Its not about what partisans did or why they did it. It's about following the facts wherever they may lead.
Is the Bush administration at fault? Maybe the Clinton administration too? Fine. Let's find out. The party affiliation of the people who made the mistakes is utterly irrelevant.
National security knows no party affiliation. If mistakes were made, let's find out who made them and why. Who, so that those people can be removed from power and replaced with people more qualified to do the job, and why so that it doesn't happen again. It's called accountability, and it knows no party.
The truth. That's all we're asking for. The truth.
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