November 15, 2005 /

Democrat's Site To Fight Back

The Democrats have launched a website hosted on the House’s server.Iraq on the Record is there as a reference for all who believe what the President has said lately. Here is a brief intro to the site: The Iraq on the Record database contains statements from the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public […]

The Democrats have launched a website hosted on the House’s server.
Iraq
on the Record
is there as a reference for all who believe what the President
has said lately. Here is a brief intro to the site:

The Iraq on the Record database contains statements from the five
Administration officials most responsible for providing public information
and shaping public opinion on the Iraq war: President George Bush; Vice
President Richard Cheney; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Secretary of
State Colin Powell; and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

The statements in the database are drawn from 125 public statements or
appearances in which the five officials discussed the threat posed by Iraq.
The sources of the statements are 40 speeches, 26 press conferences and
briefings, 53 interviews, 4 written statements or articles, and 2
appearances before congressional committees. Quotes from the officials in
newspaper articles or other similar secondary sources were not included in
the database because of the difficulty of discerning the context of such
quotes and ensuring their accuracy. Statements made by the officials before
March 2002, one year before the commencement of hostilities in Iraq, were
also not included.

The database contains statements about Iraq from the five officials that
were misleading based on what was known to the Administration at the time
the statements were made. In compiling the database, the Special
Investigations Division did not assess whether “subjectively” the officials
believed a specific statement to be misleading. Instead, the investigators
used an “objective” standard. For purposes of the database, a statement is
considered “misleading” if it conflicted with what intelligence officials
knew at the time or involved the selective use of intelligence or the
failure to include essential qualifiers or caveats.

The database does not include statements that appear mistaken only in
hindsight. If a statement was an accurate reflection of U.S. intelligence at
the time it was made, the statement is excluded from the database even if it
now appears erroneous.

To determine whether a statement was misleading, the Special
Investigations Division examined the statement in light of intelligence
known to the Administration at the time of the statement. The primary
sources for determining the intelligence available to the Administration
were (1) the portions of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate
that have been released to the public, (2) the February 5, 2004, statement
by Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet entitled Iraq and Weapons
of Mass Destruction, (3) the recent report of the nonpartisan Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace entitled WMD in Iraq: Evidence and
Implications, and (4) news and other reports quoting U.S. officials
regarding the intelligence available to the Administration on Iraq.

. You can go to the site at this
link
and check out what they have to offer. It really does provide a lot of evidence
to discredit what all Bush had been saying about Democrats trying to rewrite
history.

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