According to a report from The Hill…

The Hill contacted all 69 sitting senators who voted on the war authorization in the wee hours of Oct. 11, 2002, as well as former senators who did so.

Twenty-two senators told The Hill that they read the document [NIE] before the vote. The offices of 38 senators said they had not read the full report or could not recall, while six senators did not comment. Nine sitting senators and 21 former senators did not return repeated requests for comment.

Link.

For some, as long as he has an “R” after his name is enough. Sad.

These Republican cockroaches parody themselves.

VA Voter – in fact, hardly any of either the Dems or Republicans read the damn thing and most voted in the affirmative anyway. Those few who DID read it didn’t vote “yes.” But the bottom line is that this was a huge transgression against the Constitutional purpose of the Congressional branch, and except for the minority who voted against that god-awful resolution, they ALL bear responsibility for that horrendous blunder.

I was proven right. Congress has never seen this intel – still!

VA Voter Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
What about all the dems that did read it and voted for the war?

What about them? Kick ‘em to the curb. Wrong is wrong. It doesn’t matter whether they have a D or an R next to their name.

No, I didn’t, thank you. I did not read it. .. I did not read it. But I could still read it, and I probably should.

At this point Chris, why bother?

And people actually voted for this guy??? To do what?

Find out the facts and vote accordingly? Ummm, no.

Act like a concerned member of Congress and vote in the best interest of his constituents? Again, nope.

OTOH, it is good to know that Shays CAN read — although he doesn’t even bother reading stuff like NIE’s when people’s lives are on the line.

Honestly, what kind of a moron votes for a “congressman” who can’t even be bothered to acquaint himself with the facts or issues before the congress?

‘Interviewed in Jerusalem on CNN’s Larry King Live Wednesday, Rep. Chris Shays, R-Connecticut, chairman of the National Security Subcommittee, likened Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to a “snake in the bedroom.”

“We didn’t chop off his head [during the Gulf War] and he’s around,” Shays said. “He’s developing weapons of mass destruction, chemical and biological. We know that within three to five years he’ll have nuclear weapons.”

Speaking on the same program from Muscat, Oman, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Connecticut, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said “Saddam just stands out” because of his weapons of mass destruction and his “evil intentions” toward the United States.’

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/10/ret.iraq.terror/index.html

Nuclear weapons eh? Weapons of mass destruction eh? The “snakes in the bedroom” are Shays and LIEberman! When are they going to apologize for their mistakes?

He insisted he would not relent.

“I know too much,” he said, “about this threat.”‘
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That was Shays back in October 2002. Note the fact that his constituents seemed to overwhelmingly oppose him re: invading Iraq. These arrogant jerks seem to think that they’re way more intelligent than their constituents. If he didn’t read the NIE then he can’t even blame faulty intelligence for his faulty vote!

http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/1009331.html

O.K.

So I ran a stop sign(so they say) the other day and hit someone on a bike and killed them. When the arresting officer asked me if I read the sign that said STOP I responded, “No, I didn’t, thank you. I did not read it. .. I did not read it. But I could still read it, and I probably should.”

QUESTION:
Should that officer let me off?

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What about all the dems that did read it and voted for the war?

They ain’t braggin’, dipshit.