Intelligence vice chairman calls war unjustified
This is huge - even moreso than Pat Buchanan's latest departure from the party huddle. How this nugget slipped off the radar of our 'liberal media' is a news story unto itself.
A top Republican lawmaker has broken from his party in the final days of his House career, saying he believes that the U.S. military assault on Iraq was unjustified and that the situation there has deteriorated into “a dangerous, costly mess.”
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“From the beginning of the conflict, it was doubtful that we for long would be seen as liberators, but instead increasingly as an occupying force,” he said. “Now we are immersed in a dangerous, costly mess, and there is no easy and quick way to end our responsibilities in Iraq without creating bigger future problems in the region and, in general, in the Muslim world.”
Bereuter said that as a result of the war, “our country’s reputation around the world has never been lower and our alliances are weakened.”
This is huge - even moreso than Pat Buchanan's latest departure from the party huddle. How this nugget slipped off the radar of our 'liberal media' is a news story unto itself.
A top Republican lawmaker has broken from his party in the final days of his House career, saying he believes that the U.S. military assault on Iraq was unjustified and that the situation there has deteriorated into “a dangerous, costly mess.”
...
“From the beginning of the conflict, it was doubtful that we for long would be seen as liberators, but instead increasingly as an occupying force,” he said. “Now we are immersed in a dangerous, costly mess, and there is no easy and quick way to end our responsibilities in Iraq without creating bigger future problems in the region and, in general, in the Muslim world.”
Bereuter said that as a result of the war, “our country’s reputation around the world has never been lower and our alliances are weakened.”
