Although the Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars have found evidence for a wet history for the planet, NASA scientists were forced to admit that thus far, they have uncovered no evidence of life on the red planet. Democrats have criticized the space agency for leading America to the warrior planet based on lies."Before the rovers landed, week after week after week, we were told lie after lie after lie," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Howard Dean on life on Mars: "There are many theories about it. The most interesting theory that I've heard so far -- which is nothing more than a theory, it can't be proved -- is that NASA was warned ahead of time by the Saudis that there was no life on Mars."
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry: "I actually did vote for the Mars rover missions before I voted against it."
"I was the first candidate in this race to come out against the rover missions," Al Sharpton told an audience of about 300 at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. "I didn't believe there were Martians with weapons of mass destruction."
Richard Clarke, the chief counterterrorism advisor to the president accused Bush of pressuring him to find a link between water and life on the red planet: "The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door and said, 'I want you to find whether there is life on Mars,' " Clarke told the CBS program 60 Minutes. "He never said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said the rovers would find life on Mars."
NASA points out that while no evidence of life on Mars has surfaced yet, the mission is still ongoing, and they have found evidence of a watery past, which is a condition suitable for such life.
David Kay, in a statement on the interim progress report of the activities of the Mars survey group offered up this testimony: "We have not yet found life on Mars, but we are not yet at the point where we can say definitively either that such life do not exist or that they existed before the mission and our only task is to find where they have gone. We are actively engaged in searching for such life based on information being supplied to us by rovers."
