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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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To: Win Smith who wrote (2590)2/14/2004 10:11:57 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Is Rumsfeld senile? Rumsfeld doesn't remember Blair's "45 minute" claim in Iraq dossier

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he did not recall British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites)'s pre-war claim that Iraq (news - web sites) had weapons of mass destruction ready to be deployed in 45 minutes.

"I don't remember the statement being made, to be perfectly honest," Rumsfeld told a Pentagon (news - web sites) news conference.

HOWEVER: Blair's claim made headlines around the world after he leveled it in a 55-page "white paper" presented to the House of Commons in September 2002.

The dossier said Iraq had military plans to use chemical and biological weapons and "some of these weapons could be deployed within 45 minutes of an order to use them."
story.news.yahoo.com
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