Senators Grill Administration Over Iraq Costs (washingtonpost.com): "both parties also took aim at what they called the administration's 'shifting justification' for the war, saying its prewar focus on weapons of mass destruction had been superseded by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz's description of Saddam Hussein's human rights violations and Wolfowitz's claim that Iraq has become the 'central battle in the war on terror.'
'In the months leading up to the war, it was a steady drumbeat of weapons of mass destruction,' said Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R-R.I.). 'All the testimony this morning . . . is about what a tyrant Saddam Hussein is, who brutalizes the people. . . . So I'll ask the question, Secretary Wolfowitz: What are we doing there?'"

Thank God for senators like Lincoln Chafee and Robert Byrd who have integrity and the guts to stand up to those who try to mislead us.
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