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Chris Carney, the Fighting Dem With Intel Creds. How Will He Use Them?

Newly elected Democrat Chris Carney of Pennsylvania is the only member of Congress with a background doing pre-war intelligence on Iraq. A New York Times profile today looks at whether he’ll aide congressional investigations into the flawed intel that led to war. Not likely:

Mr. Carney is not enthusiastic about the possibility of a new Congressional investigation of prewar intelligence, which he said would be a major distraction. For Mr. Carney, there is an element of been there, done that to looking back at the now-familiar cast of prewar characters, including Mr. Feith; Mr. Tenet; Paul D. Wolfowitz, the former deputy defense secretary; and Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi opposition leader who was a prewar favorite of many in the Defense Department to take the reins of a future Iraqi government.

“Let’s win the war first, then maybe look at how we got into it,” Mr. Carney said. “The more energy spent on answering Congressional investigations, the less time will be spent on winning the war.”

The Times story makes passing mention of Republican efforts during the campaign to smear Carney for his intelligence work, which, ironically, had been part of a pre-war intel review led by high ranking members of the GOP (a group first covered by Mother Jones). Also, for an early rundown on the swift boating of Carney, and his response at the time, see my MJ story, Swift Boating the Fighting Dems.

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If 'we the people' don't find out and understand how we got there(Iraq et.al.) we are doomed to repeating that history. Because those responsible for putting us their, and are the very pillers of the Repub party, are not going to just go away and never do it again.

Jus look at the Catholic Church, my church unfortunately, it has been around for two thousand years and it ain't gonna end it's agenda for America which began when Pope John Paul II aligned the church with the Rethug party and to this very day supports and endorses all the Rethug policies, both foreign and domestic. A church which has lasted for 2000yrs and committed mmany,many,many corrupt acts in it's long history and gotten wawy with it will not just go away.

The Catholic Church is a radical right wing extremist evangelical fundamentalist jihadist religion which strictly adheres to it's dogma no matter the cost in lives, treasure and democracy(shredding of our Constitution and the Torture Law et.al. ad nauseam). Who can stop this juggernaut of death and destruction.

The now all consuming agenda the Catholic Church has for America and which we are helpless to stop is the Pro-Birth issue resulting in Pro-Death.

The same can be said for that other piller of the Repub party the Neocons, who despite the Holocaust(caused by the Catholic Church) is creating another Holocaust in the Middle East and involvong the entire ME.

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