Now Oregon's Republican Senator Gordon Smith is right. Bush's war is criminal. How come it took him so long to figure this out?:
Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, a Republican who voted in favor of the Iraq war in 2002 and has supported it ever since, now says the current U.S. war effort is "absurd" and "may even be criminal."Of course, Smith is already back-tracking. He didn't mean criminal in the "legal sense." Huh? Typical spineless Republican.
In an emotional speech on the Senate floor Thursday night, Smith called for changes in U.S. policy that could include rapid pullouts of U.S. troops from Iraq. He said he never would have voted for the conflict if he had known the intelligence that President Bush gave the American people was inaccurate.
"I for one am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day," Smith said. "That is absurd. It may even be criminal. I cannot support that anymore. ... So either we clear and hold and build, or let's go home."
No matter how he meant it, Smith basically said Bush, Cheney and Rummy are war criminals.
