Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry, Rockefeller and Dean - I hope the pain cannot be quenched by a couple of aspirin, you disloyal twerps.
"The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges," the president said in his combative Veterans Day speech.
Defending the march to war, Bush said that foreign intelligence services and Democrats and Republicans alike were convinced at the time that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
"Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and mislead the American people about why we went to war," Bush said.
He said those critics have made those allegations although they know that a Senate investigation "found no evidence" of political pressure to change the intelligence community's assessments related to Saddam's weapons program.
He said they also know that the United Nations passed more than a dozen resolutions citing Saddam's development and possession of weapons of mass destruction.
"More than 100 Democrats in the House and the Senate who had access to the same intelligence voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power," Bush said.
And don't tell me you've been "doing it for the troops" because that's just another lie.
Made my Veterans Day, Mr. President.
UPDATE: Lies? Read this. Hat tip: GeoPolitical Review.
Oh, yeah, add Senator Durban to the twerp list.
UPDATE2 Heh. and Heh, again.
UPDATE3: Tigehawk works out what what might be legitimate dissent here. HT to Instapundit.
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