That is the only conclusion possible, if the claims of the Illinois Senator are accurate.

The Senate's No. 2 Democrat says he knew that the American public was being misled into the Iraq war but remained silent because he was sworn to secrecy as a member of the intelligence committee.

"The information we had in the intelligence committee was not the same information being given to the American people. I couldn't believe it," Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, said Wednesday when talking on the Senate floor about the run-up to the Iraq war in 2002.

"I was angry about it. [But] frankly, I couldn't do much about it because, in the intelligence committee, we are sworn to secrecy. We can't walk outside the door and say the statement made yesterday by the White House is in direct contradiction to classified information that is being given to this Congress."

If, as Durbin claims, he knew of falsehoods being given to the American people, he had a moral and Constitutional responsibility to speak out. But he didnÂ’t. And his claims are contradicted by his fellow Democrats on the Intelligence Committee.

That leads me to two possibilities.

1) Dick Durbin failed to do his duty to the American people by not exposing these so-called misleading statements – especially given his statements that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States.

2) Dick Durbin lied to the American people in making this claim of that the administration lied to the American people.

Only one conclusion can be drawn at this point – Dick Durbin is a liar, and unfit to serve in the United States Senate. He should resign immediately.

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