Cord Byrd: “Well, it suggests we are going down the wrong path when the President of the United States leads our country into war…”

“Well, it suggests we are going down the wrong path when the President of the United States leads our country into war, leads our men and women into war, based on evidence that is supposed to have been developed by another country's agencies, that evidence not being substantiated by our own intelligence agencies. So it is very evident we were just grasping for a straw to hang our hats on. I happen to believe that this administration intended from the beginning to go to war in Iraq, that this administration intended from the beginning to invade Iraq. How many times has the Senator from Florida heard the President say, with reference to the U.N., 'If you don't do it, we will. If you don't do it, we will'? They were not waiting on the U.N. to come along. We already had our minds made up to go into Iraq. And anybody who heard Karl Rove or read about Karl Rove's statement to the National Republican Committee--in January of last year, I believe it was, yes--when he indicated to the National Republican Committee that: this homeland security horse was the one we could ride to victory politically on, and that the national Republican efforts should make, as its center strategy, the subject of homeland security-- it was evident to me they were going to ride that horse to the utmost until the horse dropped or got across the victory goal line in the election.”