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

To: American Spirit who wrote (429489)	7/19/2003 12:29:40 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

President Bush and his national security adviser did not entirely read the most authoritative prewar assessment of U.S. intelligence on Iraq (news - web sites), including a State Department claim that an allegation Bush would later use in his State of the Union address was "highly dubious," White House officials said yesterday. The acknowledgment came in a briefing for reporters in which the administration released excerpts from last October's National Intelligence Estimate, a classified, 90-page summary that was the definitive assessment of Iraq's weapons programs by U.S. intelligence agencies. The report declared that "most" of the six intelligence agencies believed there was "compelling evidence that Saddam [Hussein] is reconstituting a uranium enrichment effort for Baghdad's nuclear weapons program." But the document also included a pointed dissent by the State Department, which said the evidence did not "add up to a compelling case" that Iraq was making a comprehensive effort to get nuclear weapons..... ....The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is seeking to question White House aides after hearing from CIA officials who said that Bush aides pushed to include contested allegations about Iraq's nuclear ambitions in Bush's speech. The CIA account was contradicted during yesterday's White House briefing..... ......"The president was comfortable at the time, based on the information that was provided in his speech," the official said of the decision to use it in the address to Congress. "The president of the United States is not a fact-checker." story.news.yahoo.com What the heck. Why read such a report when your mind is already made up? And who wants to waste time being a fact checker? Del