Byron Dorgan Removes Nearly All Mention Of Iraq From His Website

The Whistler • January 15, 2008

I was poking around on North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan’s official website recently and noticed something odd: In his “issues” section there’s no mention of Iraq. In fact, combing through the issues and news areas, I couldn’t fine one single mention of Iraq anywhere on Dorgan’s site except for links to two brief releases.
This seems a bit odd given how the war in Iraq has dominated this nation’s politics for the last several years. What’s particularly interesting, however, is not so much what Dorgan doesn’t have about Iraq on his website but the Iraq-related content he’s taken down. For instance, check out this 1998 editorial that is no longer on Dorgan’s website but it still available to us via the archive of that site provided by Archive.org.
In it, Dorgan rails against Saddam Hussein calling him a war criminal and saying that he should be convicted as such by a UN-convened court. He notes Saddam’s war against Iran, invasion of Kuwait and “ethnic cleansing” operations within Iraq’s borders are reasons why he should put on trial.
As a staunch supporter of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein, I applaud this op/ed from my Senator. But now that the Iraq war has become a partisan “beach ball” in Congress with many in Dorgan’s own party calling the war illegal, and accusing our President of being a war criminal himself for taking Saddam out, I wonder why Dorgan has sent this op/ed down the “memory hole” by removing it from his Congressional website where it was once posted. I also wonder why Dorgan has removed nearly all reference from the Iraq issues from his website.
What is he afraid of? Clearly he once held strong passionate opinions about Iraq. Has he been cowed by his fellow liberals to the point where he now feels like he must hide from the issue? Does he not feel like he should stand up on this issue and support the war he voted to authorize? The war a majority of his constituents support as well?
Or is his allegiance to his political party more important?

Tags: North Dakota News, Politics, War On Terror

http://www.fileitunder.com/ Hoodlumman

It's the same game all Dems who voted for the war and were hawkish in the 90's and early 2000's when it was popular to be anti-Saddam.

Politics over country every time.

Of course you knew this already…
Pomerdorgrad

Typical: Take a stand on an issue when it doesn't count.

Although, if you do a search, you'll see there's a bit more Iraq on his site than you would immediately glean.
Pomerdorgrad

Now that I look more, a lot of the Iraq mentions are in the nature of "Look how much we're spending on Iraq. We should spend on X instead!" Blah, blah, blah.
Hoss

Of course you could fill the archives with quotes and articles from leftist politicians denouncing Hussein and his weapons, and how something ought to be done about that madman on the loose. But, as usual, it's all talk and no action for those on the left. Sit around and talk about what a hardass you are, and then when the rubber meets the road you bail out and/or start poisoning the well. Props to them for voting for action, shame on them for being a bunch of pussies unwilling to stick with it.
pparets

Rob: Is there any chance that North Dakotans can throw Dorgan out of office the next time he's up for re-election? The liberal democrats in congress who enthusiastically supported President Bush on Iraq, and then STABBED HIM IN THE BACK deserve to be taken down. They have put party interests above the nation's interests… despicable!!
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

In my opinion Dorgan's not going to get beat. For some reason the voters of the state feel they owe him or something.

They don't seem to give a darn what he does when he's in Washington. He comes back, lies about what he's doing and gets reelected.
http://www.bothinonetrench.com/ Ray Robison

A new book shows Saddam did support al Qaeda and the Taliban:

'Both In One Trench: Saddam's Secret Terror Documents'

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http://Array 2Hotel9

I like the book, but a spambot all the same.

Ray? Next time actually participate in the thread, and look around. You may actually like us.

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