Congressman Peter Welch isn't known as much of an orator, but he was about as fiery as he can get -- publicly at least -- when he launched into an attack over the State Department's effort to re-classify certain U.S. assessments that reveal ongoing corruption in the Iraq "rebuilding" effort.by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government.
On Tuesday, he took to the House floor to refute a Republican member's defense of the Bush administration stance on the issue. Check it out by clicking
HERE. Some of the stories Welch related from testimony he'd heard about the killings of people connected with the corruption probe are pretty grisly, so you might want to have the little ones in another room when you watch this.
In the end, what the House is fighting over is a a non-binding resolution chastizing the administration for what it's trying to do. The GOP thinks it's grandstanding by the Dems. So give it a look, and tell us what you think is going on.
-- Sam Hemingway
