Members of Congress didn't take war serious enough to read reports

When I watched this last night I was waiting and hoping it would be brought up that sending troops into Iraq was something that should have surprised no one.

This report was exceptionally good and anyone who gave a damn at the time would have known how much was right in this but there is one thing that was left off. The warnings that came after the Gulf War.

The lives gone, maimed, money gone and missing all came because members of Congress voted for it but didn't read what was in the reports. None of them remembered what President G.H.W. Bush said about troops in Iraq and the loss of life. None of them remembered what Dick Cheney said about a "quagmire" and even less remembered what Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf said about the troops being stuck there "like a dinosaur in a tar pit."

So now that it is all out there, who is going to be held accountable, who will resign from office and who is going to jail? If history is any example, no one will. Obama was right all along on this and so were many in the Senate but they were called traitors and against the troops. The elected blindly supporting the Bush Administration on both sides were wrong but no one can bring back what was lost.

Maddow: Many in Congress never read Iraq intel briefs before authorizing war
By David Ferguson
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

On Monday night, Rachel Maddow presented “Hubris: Selling the Iraq War,” a documentary about the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, one of the biggest military blunders in U.S. history. In one segment, she reported that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who were charged with determining whether or not the country should go to war, never read the pertinent briefs before giving then-President George W. Bush the go-ahead to launch the Iraq War.

The segment began in September of 2002, when Congress returned from its summer recess. Bush administration officials were lobbying heavily for an invasion of Iraq, using a flawed intelligence brief, the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq, which wildly oversold the case for Saddam Hussein having a nuclear and biological weapons program.

Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), who sat on the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, told MSNBC that the main “shop” behind a large amount of slanted, pro-invasion intelligence was the office of Doug Feith, undersecretary of Defense from 2001 to 2005, who was key in positing that Iraq was working with al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that attacked the U.S. on Sep. 11, 2001.
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