Lynn C. Woolsey: “Do not take my word for it. Listen to one of my constituents, Roy, from San Rafael. He writes: I was one of those who…”

“Do not take my word for it. Listen to one of my constituents, Roy, from San Rafael. He writes: I was one of those who, traumatized by 9/11, trusted our government to lead us down the right path based on indisputable evidence and sound judgment. I supported their decision to go to war. I deserve to know if I was duped. Mr. Speaker, the fact is that many people in this country are faced with a similar and terrible dilemma. Are they to believe whether or not the administration lied to them? Are they to believe that the White House is inept, that they based a decision to send young Americans to die on faulty information? Another constituent of mine, William, from Sebastopol, wrote about what President Bush's untruths meant to him: I love my country but I am not very proud of it right now. This administration must answer for their deception. Business as usual is not acceptable. ... The administration's calculated disinformation campaign about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is a direct attack upon our most cherished democratic values. Such flagrant contempt for the right of the people to control their government is unacceptable.”