Rand Paul: “soon we hope to have hearings on the pending war with Iraq. I am concerned that there are some questions that will not…”

“soon we hope to have hearings on the pending war with Iraq. I am concerned that there are some questions that will not be asked and maybe not even allowed to be asked. Here are some questions I would like answered by those who are anxious to start this war: Is it not true that the reason we did not bomb the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War was because we knew they could retaliate? Is it not also true that we are willing to bomb Iraq now because we know it cannot retaliate, which just confirms that there is no real threat? Is it not true that those who argue that even with inspections we cannot be sure that Hussein might be hiding weapons, at the same time implying that we can be more sure that weapons exist in the absence of inspections? Is it not true that the U.N.'s International Atomic Agency was able to complete its yearly verification mission to Iraq just this year with Iraqi cooperation? Is it not true that the intelligence community has been unable to develop a case tying Iraq to global terrorism at all, much less the attacks on the United States last year? Does anybody remember that 15 of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and that none came from Iraq? Was former CIA counterterrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro wrong when he recently said there was no confirmed evidence of Iraq's links to terrorism?”