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Crooks and Liars: Democrat Jim Slattery To Take On Bush Lapdog Pat Roberts For KS Senate Seat

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Former Democratic Congressman, Jim Slattery, has officially jumped in the 2008 U.S. Senate race to take on GOP incumbent and loyal Bushie, Pat Roberts. Slattery is holding his own in the polls thus far in the race, keeping Roberts from breaking the 50% mark , which is stunning in a state that votes overwhelmingly Republican. The release of the Phase 2 report on prewar Iraq intelligence has given Slattery an opening to attack Roberts that's big enough to drive a train through. Proving he's ready to take the fight to to his opponent, Slattery wasted no time calling Roberts out for his role in covering up the lies of the Bush administration during the run up to the invasion of Iraq: After a nearly four-year investigation, the...
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Posted By: hank2 (June 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM)

Sen. Roberts was the one person in the USA most responsible for congressional oversight of the quality of our intelligence agencies, and of the utilization of their work product by the Bush administration.  His neglect of those responsibilities was complete.   To make matters worse, he led efforts to block investigations of the intelligence failures, and misrepresentations of intelligence, associated with the sale of the Iraq war.  If Sen. Roberts is not held accountable for those failures, and removed from office by the voters, democracy has atrophied to the extent that it has become completely disfunctional.

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