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

To: jlallen who wrote (449681)	8/28/2003 1:50:26 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

According to the American CIA, the British Intelligence was a bunch of poppycock, and they told the administration that on several occasions. Attributing the intelligence to the Brits, while our CIA says this is not Solid intelligence is tantamount to lying. <Before the speech was delivered, the portions dealing with Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were checked with the CIA for accuracy, reports CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin. CIA officials warned members of the President’s National Security Council staff the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa. The White House officials responded that a paper issued by the British government contained the unequivocal assertion: “Iraq has ... sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” As long as the statement was attributed to British Intelligence, the White House officials argued, it would be factually accurate. The CIA officials dropped their objections and that’s how it was delivered.> cbsnews.com <But eight days after the State of the Union, when Powell addressed the U.N., he deliberately left out any reference to Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Africa. “I didn’t use the uranium at that point because I didn’t think that was sufficiently strong as evidence to present before the world,” Powell said. That is exactly what CIA officials told the White House before the State of the Union.> Freaking liars. Orca