THE KILLER DRONES (AGAIN)

I was reading an article in the LA Times about how even "The Heartland" was turning against Fredo's War and I came across this passage:

While in Congress, Hill voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq. He considers his vote — and his story about how he believes he was misled by the administration — to be an advantage with voters, he said. Hill said he had planned to vote against the war resolution until he was invited to the Pentagon for a top-secret briefing from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. There, Hill said, he was shown intelligence that suggested Iraq had the ability to attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction using unmanned aircraft. That briefing "was a deliberate misrepresentation," Hill said, and his message to Indiana's independent-minded voters will be that "it's healthy for us to be skeptical."

Hill is Baron Hill, a former Indiana Democratic congressman who lost his seat to Republican Mike Sodrel. Hill will challenge Sodrel for the seat this Fall but that's not what was notable for me. The above passage reminded me of remarks by the Democratic senator from Florida, Bill Nelson:

I, along with nearly every Senator in this Chamber, in that secure room of this Capitol complex, was not only told there were weapons of mass destruction--specifically chemical and biological--but I was looked at straight in the face and told that Saddam Hussein had the means of delivering those biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction by unmanned drones, called UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles.
Further, I was looked at straight in the face and told that UAVs could be launched from ships off the Atlantic coast to attack eastern seaboard cities of the United States.

I had been a little doubtful about Sen. Nelson's testimony because I thought that the Bush regime really couldn't be THAT dishonest but I was wrong again.