Senator Byrd seems to crop up here with some frequency.
Senator Byrd seems to crop up here with some frequency. Here he is again, in a speech
he made yesterday:
Regarding the situation in Iraq, it appears to this Senator that the
American people may have been lured into accepting the unprovoked invasion
of a sovereign nation, in violation of long-standing International law,
under false premises. There is ample evidence that the horrific events of
September 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from
Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda who masterminded the September 11th attacks,
to Saddam Hussein who did not.[…]
[T]he Bush team’s extensive hype of WMD in Iraq as justification for a
preemptive invasion has become more than embarrassing. It has raised
serious questions about prevarication and the reckless use of power. 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?