Bob Graham is one of the few politicians I have known to be in politics for the right reason. . . to help make peoples' lives better. I interned with Graham's press secretary his first year as governor of Florida. I saw up close how hard he worked, how much he cared and how honest he was. Sometimes this worked against him and maybe that is why he is not president today. (He certainly would have done a better job of articulating Democratic values had he been the nominee rather than the man he is pictured with here). But the man speaks the truth. He voted against the war and was a lone voice before the election about the trouble this administration was getting us into over seas. He wrote a powerful and terrifying book called Intelligence Matters which I believe should be required reading for all Americans.
Gerald Posner, New York Times bestselling author of Why America Slept said about Graham's book, "Intelligence Matters is a work of great patriotism, a searing insider’s account of the government’s ineptitude, and at times deceit, both on 9/11 and in the war in Iraq. Senator Graham is unflinching in a damning and persuasive indictment of President Bush, the FBI and the CIA. This is no liberal, conspiratorial, antiwar polemic, but rather a convincing argument by a hawk in the war on terror as to why the country is less safe today because of blunders made by President Bush. Intelligence Matters also makes a meticulous–and at times startling–case for official Saudi Arabian complicity in the 9/11 plot. This is an important book and a must read for anyone concerned with the war on terror and the future of America."
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Today Graham has written an editorial in the Washington Post on what he knew before the invasion of Iraq. Maybe then he was dismissed as a Chicken Little, but three years and over 2000 American lives lost later, I think most all Americans agree: The sky is falling. Maybe now people will listen to Bob Graham. Click on the title of this entry to read his Post editorial.
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