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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: PartyTime who wrote (1377)2/10/2004 11:32:59 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
In his 2002 State of the Union speech, Bush said of Qaeda terrorists: "The depth of their hatred is equaled by the madness of the destruction they design. We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants. . . . "

Robert Block and Greg Hitt report in the Wall Street Journal that the White House is retreating from that assertion.

"Monday night, the White House defended the warnings about Islamic extremist intentions, but said the concerns highlighted by Mr. Bush were based on intelligence developed before and after the Sept. 11 attacks, and that no plant diagrams were actually found in Afghanistan. 'There's no additional basis for the language in the speech that we have found,' a senior administration official said. . . .

"Sean McCormack, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, said Monday night that rather than being based on actual diagrams that were actually found in Afghanistan, the president's warning about nuclear plants grew from information collected by the U.S. intelligence community."

Matthew L. Wald reports in the New York Times that Edward McGaffigan Jr., a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has apparently been saying for a while now that there's no evidence that al Qaeda had designs for nuclear power plants, and that the president was "poorly served by a speechwriter."

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