Why are we still missing part 2 of the prewar intelligence report? Sen. Harry Reid angrily shut down the Senate last year to protest the slow pace of obtaining the promised Phase II of this report. The Republicans derisively called it a “stunt” but Reid was eventually promised that he’d get that report very soon. Well, if you’re a woman you could have had a full-term baby by now because that was nine months ago — and we still don’t have the report! It might be time for another Senate shut down, except they are going on recess soon. Naturally, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is led by Republicans, which is why nothing is getting done and promises are not being kept. Why do Republicans have such a hard time doing what they say they’ll do? David Corn of The Nation writes that the following is a part of his personal interview with Rep. Senator Pat Roberts:

[Corn] QUESTION: Given the 800 American GIs who have lost their lives so far, thousands have had serious injuries, lost limbs, all on the basis of false [WMD] claims…[and that] American taxpayers have had to kick in almost $200 billion, doesn’t the American public and the relatives of people who lost their lives have a right to know before the next election whether this administration handled intelligence matters adequately and made statements that were justified — before the election, not after the election? [Yes!!]
ROBERTS: This is in phase two of our efforts. We simply couldn’t get that done with the work product that we put out….It is one of my top priorities….I have told everybody on the other side of the aisle, everybody on our side of the aisle, ‘We’ll proceed with phase two. It is a priority.‘ I made my commitment, and it will be done..

Except now it’s been over a year. If this is how a “priority” is handled, how do they handle non-priorities? Hidden in the party platform somewhere must be “delay, lie and make empty promises”. We need that report because, as you will recall, we were lied to and told Iraq had “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and so we went to war based on false information. How did that happen? That’s what we need to know. It is something the Republicans obviously don’t want us to know, but what they don’t realize is that the public and the Democrats and others will not give up until they find out exactly what happened.
submitted by Shelly of Citizen Against Lies