The US House of Representatives voted by 246 to 182 Friday in favor of a resolution opposing President Bush’s decision to send an additional 21,500 troops into the war in Iraq. Although Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed, “The passage of this legislation will signal a change in direction in Iraq that will end the fighting and bring our troops home safely and soon,” the vote is not a step towards ending the war.
Like Watergate, the Rove affair is about government policy, in which the actions of the bit players can be traced back directly to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Co. The conflict now raging in Washington pertains to the increasingly evident failure of the Bush administration’s military intervention in Iraq.
The internal FBI study provides several important revelations about how US intelligence agencies ignored and even suppressed warnings in the period leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people.
