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Jo Bonner (R) Alabama:
"Bereuter: War in Iraq not justified
by don walton In a dramatic departure from the Bush administration, Republican Rep. Doug Bereuter says he now believes the U.S. military assault on Iraq was unjustified.
"I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action," Bereuter wrote in a letter to constituents in the final days of his congressional career.
"Knowing now what I know about the reliance on the tenuous or insufficiently corroborated intelligence used to conclude that Saddam maintained a substantial WMD (weapons of mass destruction) arsenal, I believe that launching the pre-emptive military action was not justified."
As a result of the war, he said, "our country's reputation around the world has never been lower and our alliances are weakened."
Bereuter is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee and vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee." Given Rep. Bereuter's better-late-than-never 'come-clean' on his vote to go to war, how do you feel about your decision? As the body bags of Alabamians come back from Iraq, how do you feel about your vote for war? Do you feel you were mislead by the Bush administration and their 'pre-emptive' invasion of Iraq? Do you hold any reservations at all about where the leader of the Republican party has taken this nation? Your constituents would like to know.
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