WTF Is It Now?!?

New Watergate soaks White House
Alarming evidence of the Bush administration's mendacity

'Two weeks ago the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee issued an interim report citing the "dearth" of hard data underpinning the National Intelligence Estimate, which was used to justify the war on Iraq.

'They evaded the more fundamental question of whether members of the Bush administration engaged in fraud. So far congressional Republicans have blocked a full-scale investigation, while the Democrats are quiescent.

'[O]ur youngsters in uniform are dying almost every day. Before their suffering and that of Iraqi civilians overwhelms our nation, Congress should do its job. Its first responsibility is to illuminate the process by which our public was gulled into an invasion.

'As for Bush, the public has a right to learn whether he participated in a hoax or was simply the first dupe.

'That can help us determine whether he should be impeached or simply retired at the next election. In either case, it is time for Congress to step up to its constitutional responsibility.'

- - Carolyn Eisenberg, professor of history at Hofstra University, in Newsday.