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Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, fired his own shot, also accusing the White House of manipulating the committee's GOP leadership into steering away from the subject of pre-Iraq war intelligence. "Any time the Intelligence Committee pursued a line of inquiry that brought us close to the role of the White House in all of this, in the use of intelligence prior to the war, our efforts have been thwarted time and time again," he said.

The "closed session" was hardly over before Sen. John "Reporting for Duty" Kerry was out to his dozens of supporters on his website, alleging "the country was misled into this war by a president and an administration who [sic] appear today to have put politics and narrow ideology ahead of sound honest national security policy."

With weekly polls showing a precipitous drop in public support for the war, all of this rhetoric is red meat to the far-left leadership of the Democrat party. George Soros, Howard Dean and Michael Moore have to be euphoric -- they have the hated George Bush on the ropes -- and hope to score a knock-out. They will, of course, have the help of the mainstream media who are unlikely to remind the American people that this is all being carried out in a U.S. Senate that had access to the same ambiguous intelligence that was used by the White House before hostilities began on March 19, 2003.

Nor is it probable that Messrs. Reid, Rockefeller, Kerry, et al, will want to be reminded that they -- along with 26 other Democrats, all voted for the Oct. 11, 2002 resolution committing U.S. troops to a war that they now clearly do not want us to win.

What the Democrat leadership is asking for is an "Instant Replay" of all that was discussed and debated before hostilities commenced. But this isn't the NFL -- it's war. Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the Senate doesn't seem to know it either.

As this circus in the Senate was unfolding, the best a befuddled Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist could manage was a weak restatement of the obvious: the Senate "has been hijacked by the Democratic Leadership." What he should have done was introduce a "privileged motion" of his own -- demanding an immediate vote on who wants to stop the war right now. But then, that would have taken real leadership.

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