MoveOn Calls on Bush to Release Intelligence Report
Bush Should Release Intelligence Report on Iraq, So Americans Learn the Truth Before they Vote in November
WASHINGTON
– MoveOn PAC Friday called on the Bush Administration to release the
full text of the National Intelligence Estimate, which Bush has had
since July, so that Americans can better understand how he and his top
officials have consistently misled them about developments in Iraq.
The
demand came as MoveOn PAC's latest TV ad, “Quagmire,” is running in
Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio and nationally on CNN. The ad
claims “George Bush misled us into war with Iraq, sending poorly
equipped soldiers into battle.”
Bush
surrogates, including campaign chairman Marc Racicot and former Sen.
Bob Dole, sought to distract attention from news reports yesterday that
the consensus of the US intelligence community, contained in the
classified intelligence report, directly contradicts recent Bush,
Cheney and Rumsfeld public statements about prospects for US success in
Iraq. Both Bush spokespeople attacked MoveOn PAC's ad without noting
the obvious conflict between the Administration's rosy scenarios and
the intelligence community's dire warnings that corroborated the
central message of the ad.
As it
began running, new evidence emerged of Bush's failure to tell the truth
about Iraq. On August 5, Bush told us, “(Iraq is) on the path to
lasting democracy and liberty,” at the White House as he signed the
Defense bill.
Then on Aug 24, Vice President Cheney told voters in Iowa: “We're moving in the right direction (in Iraq).”
“So we
have a pResident who has misled the American people on Weapons of Mass
Destruction and the likelihood of nuclear weapons development in Iraq –
claims that were refuted again in a draft report written by the top
American weapons inspector in Iraq, made public in the media today,”
said Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn PAC.
“They
told us our troops would be welcomed as liberators; now over 1,000 are
dead. They told us the war would pay for itself, and now we've spent
$150 billion. Americans deserve to see the N.I.E. in its entirety, so
they can judge for themselves how truthful this pResident has been
about the adequacy of his leadership on Iraq,” Pariser said
View the new ad at http://www.moveonpac.org
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