in the news today:
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Kerry and Edwards reviewed the same prewar intelligence on Iraq that was given to President Bush (news - web sites), and both supported the decision to go to war, Cheney said. Last week, a Senate panel determined that intelligence was flawed.
“Now it seems they’ve both developed a convenient case of campaign amnesia,” Cheney said during a $500-per-plate breakfast fund-raiser for a Republican congressional candidate.
He said the Democratic senators “are criticizing the president for looking at the same information that they did and coming to the same conclusion that they did. If the president was right, and he was, then they are simply trying to rewrite history for their own political purposes.”
Following the Senate panel’s report critical of prewar intelligence, Kerry and Edwards called the CIA (news - web sites)'s work slipshod but declined to answer a hypothetical question of whether they would have voted against the congressional resolution authorizing force based on what they know now. They made the comment in an interview with The New York Times.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report concluded that the CIA provided unfounded assessments of the threat posed by Iraq with weapons of mass destruction.
Monday’s breakfast, which raised about $200,000 for the campaign of Charles W. Dent, was the first stop of Cheney’s daylong swing through Pennsylvania.