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war resolution justified on grounds bush was told were false
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 17:10 -0400
___ Dave Farber +1 412 726 9889 ...... Forwarded Message ....... From: Gordon Cook <cook () cookreport com> To: dave () farber net, dewayne () warpspeed com, jock () jockgill com Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:54:15 -0400 Subj: war resolution justified on grounds bush was told were false For IP or dewayne net An extraordinary 10,300 word article from tomorrow's New York Times Skewed Intelligence Data in March to War in Iraq By DAVID BARSTOW, WILLIAM J. BROAD and JEFF GERTH This article was reported by David Barstow, William J. Broad and Jeff Gerth, and was written by Mr. Barstow. In 2002, at a crucial juncture on the path to war, senior members of the Bush administration gave a series of speeches and interviews in which they asserted that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear weapons program. In a speech to veterans that August, Vice President Dick Cheney said Mr. Hussein could have an atomic bomb "fairly soon." President Bush, addressing the United Nations the next month, said there was "little doubt" about Mr. Hussein's appetite for nuclear arms. The United States intelligence community had not yet concluded that Iraq was rebuilding its nuclear weapons program. But as the vice president told a group of Wyoming Republicans that September, the United States had "irrefutable evidence" - thousands of tubes made of high-strength aluminum, tubes that the Bush administration said were destined for clandestine Iraqi uranium centrifuges, before some were seized at the behest of the United States. The tubes quickly became a critical exhibit in the administration's brief against Iraq. As the only physical evidence the United States of Mr. Hussein's revived nuclear ambitions, they gave credibility to the apocalyptic imagery invoked by President Bush and his advisers. The tubes were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, asserted on CNN on Sept. 8, 2002. "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." But before Ms. Rice made those remarks, she was aware that the government's foremost nuclear experts had concluded that the tubes were most likely not for nuclear weapons at all, an examination by The New York Times has found. As early as 2001, her staff had been told that these experts, at the Energy Department, believed the tubes were probably intended for small artillery rockets, according to four officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and a senior administration official, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information. http://nytimes.com/2004/10/03/international/middleeast/03tube.html? hp=&pagewanted=print&position= -------- -- ============================================================= The COOK Report on Internet Protocol, 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA 609 882-2572 (PSTN) 415 651-4147 (Lingo) cook () cookreport com Subscription info: http://cookreport.com/subscriptions.shtml Worldcall to use ISDN interconnec- tion to offer equivalent of ILEC UNE platform at: http://cookreport.com/13.09.shtml ============================================================= ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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