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via Seeing the Forest

I was encouraged that Rep. Obey (D-WI) was beginning to show some spine about investigating how we were lied into war. But no such luck.

Dems Scrap Plans To Look Into Claims White House Manipulated Intel On Iraqi ThreatDemocrats in Congress have abandoned their efforts to investigate the White House’s use of questionable intelligence information about Iraq’s alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, saying the issue has been "eclipsed" by President Bush’s request for $87 billion from Congress to continue funding the war there.

David Helfert, a spokesman for Congressman David Obey, D-Wisconsin, who criticized the White House for relying too heavily on murky intelligence to get support for the war, said Friday that Congressional Democrats would no longer pursue hearings on the intelligence matter.

"We’re past that," Helfert said, referring to the intelligence issue. "Those questions were eclipsed by the supplemental request by President Bush for $87 billion" to fund the Iraq war. "Congress if focusing on asking questions about the $87 billion, what it will be used for and whether it’s worth it. It would be a good characterization to say that the intelligence questions on Iraq and how the President came to believe that it had weapons of mass destruction are no longer an issue."

No longer an issue? I can't imagine anything that's a more important issue! Either we were massively lied to or our intelligence is more incompetent than the Germans running Stalag 13 in Hogan's Heroes! Whichever it is, we deserve to know about it!