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November 14, 2005BELTWAY BLOGROLL
In The Blog's-Eye: A Rocky Intelligence Road
Bloggers on the right are swarming against Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia for his comments on a Sunday talk show about the intelligence that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Captain's Quarter's and Power Line are among those running transcripts of the interview with Rockefeller, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"He tried to parrot the [Democrats'] party line on Iraq intelligence in an interview with Chris Wallace this morning," John Hinderaker wrote at Power Line. "His inability to answer the most basic questions is embarrassing."
"How empty are the Democrats of ideas and long-term plans for national security?" Ed Morrissey added at Captain's Quarters. "Three years later, they're still lying about their own statements on national TV to smear George Bush -- even though he can't run for election again! Rockefeller shows how lame this meme has become."
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit also noted Rockefeller's statements, via Just One Minute. Tom Maguire wondered at that blog how Rockefeller can show his face after apparently conflicting comments he made on the same intelligence in 2002, and Reynolds answered: "Long political experience, and an unshakable faith in the press's short memory, is my guess."
Mark Kilmer of RedState focused on the fact that Rockefeller said he visited Saudi Arabia, Syria and Jordan in January 2002 and told leaders of those nations that he believed Bush already had decided to go to war in Iraq. He wrote: "This is major revelation. ... Here is a United States senator, four months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, traveling to the region, alone and under the cover of darkness, to warn various regional leaders that he was certain the president was really after Saddam Hussein. Why was Rockefeller undermining U.S. foreign policy in this manner before the initial shock of 9/11 had not yet worn off?"
Michelle Malkin also is keeping tabs on the reaction not just to Rockefeller's comments but more broadly to the speech President Bush gave on Veterans' Day last week in defense of his decision-making on the Iraqi war.
With that one speech, Bush appears to have regained the affection of conservative bloggers, many of whom have been among his chief critics on various issues since late summer.
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