Rockefeller sounds off on Iraq

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Rockefeller sounds off on Iraq
http://www.wvgazette.com/webtools/print/News/2004032632
By Paul J. Nyden
STAFF WRITER
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“You had a president who we now know was determined to go to war. He was going to be a war president,” Rockefeller said during an interview with editors at The Charleston Gazette on Friday.

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The political atmosphere in Washington, D.C., changed dramatically after Bush took office, said Rockefeller, who has served in the Senate since 1985. “Republicans fell totally in line since Bush came into office. They have a loyalty I have never seen before.

“They are true believers. It started with Newt Gingrich in 1994. Nothing gets in their way. Facts don’t get in their way.

“And three chairmen of major committees were told by Dick Cheney not to investigate anything in the administration.”