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

To: Bob who wrote (465686)	9/26/2003 4:52:22 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 769670

Drones - ...<font color=blue>Air Force officials feeling vindicated. They argued before the Iraq war that the drones were never meant to spread toxins but to fly unarmed reconnaissance missions.</font> washingtonpost.com All of the Junior and Powell lies are falling apart. <font color=blue> In a speech in Cincinnati last October, Bush expressed concern that "Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs for missions targeting the United States." Secretary of State Colin L. Powell spoke of the same possibility in his presentation to the U.N. Security Council in February. What the Bush administration did not reveal until recently was that the government organization most knowledgeable about the United States' UAV program -- the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center -- had sharply disputed the notion that Iraq's UAVs were being designed as attack weapons. </font> Lying has become such a habit with Junior that we wonder if he recognized them on the teleprompter. <font color=blue>"What we were thinking was: Why would you purposefully design a vehicle to be an inefficient delivery means?" Boyd said. "Wouldn't it make more sense that they were purposefully designing it to be a decent reconnaissance UAV?" </font> TP