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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (428233)	7/17/2003 2:33:44 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

BUSH LIES DEPT.: Faked intelligence on Iraq part of a pattern of White House dissemblance says Senatore Carl Levin story.news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AFP) - A leading Democrat in Congress accused the White House of a broad pattern of dissemblance in making its case for waging war on Iraq. Carl Levin, senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee refuted White House claims that now-discredited reports that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear material from Africa was an isolated case of Washington using dodgy pre-war intelligence. "The misleading statement about African uranium is not an isolated incident. There is a significant amount of troubling evidence that it was part of a pattern of exaggerations and misleading statements," he said in comments delivered from the floor of the US Senate. "The President's statement that Iraq was attempting to acquire African uranium was not a 'mistake.' It was not inadvertent. It was not a slip. It was negotiated between the CIA and the NSC," he said, referring to the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. "It was calculated. It was misleading," said Levin. US President George W. Bush has defended pre-war US intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons, amid charges that he inflated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam Hussein in his annual "State of the Union" address to the nation on January 28. Democrats, most of whom voted in favor of going to war, have seized on the Bush administration's admission that the president should not have used the information in his speech to demand an independent inquiry, and Levin renewed those calls, saying that what is now needed is " a thorough and accurate and bipartisan investigation." He was critical of the administration for laying the blame for the inclusion of the uranium claim in the speech on CIA Director George Tenet, who last week accepted responsibility for having gone along with the African uranium statement. But Levin pinned the blame on others in the administration as well. Tenet's "explanation of the CIA's acquiescence in allowing the use of a clearly misleading statement raises more questions than it answers, and statements by other administration officials -- particularly National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) -- compound the problem," he said. "The sole purpose of that (uranium) statement was to make the American people believe that the American government believed the statement to be true, and that it was strong evidence of Iraq's attempt to obtain nuclear weapons," Levin charged. "But the truth was that, at the very time the words were spoken, our government did not believe it was true," he said. "Condoleezza Rice's effort to justify the statement on the grounds that it was 'technically accurate' doesn't address the heart of the matter -- which is that the statement was calculated to create a false impression," Levin continued. "It is simply wrong to make a statement whose purpose is to make people believe something when you do not believe it yourself," he said.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (428233)	7/17/2003 10:11:06 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

I know saddam was advancing the state of the art of portable mobile bio labs that were stealthy and easy to transports in disguise. If left alone he would have. If left to dance even with inspectors he would have had them and then how many troops would die getting rid of him. So the technology ignoramus whines about dropping papers to stupid and ignorant to see any danger that prevents his hate of America and PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH. Lift you head out of the latrine and try breathing some fresh air.