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To: coug who wrote (32938)	12/17/2003 11:38:02 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Impeachable Offense: Bush Lied To Start War ______________________________________ The Bush Administration told senior politicians before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein had developed drones which could strike the east coast of the US with weapons of mass destruction, a Senator has claimed. Democrat Bill Nelson said he was among around 75 Senators who received the classified briefing shortly before a Congressional vote last October, which authorised the removal of Saddam by force. He said the Senators were told that Iraq had developed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which could dump biological or chemical agents, including anthrax, on east coast cities, including Washington and New York. “They have not found anything that resembles an UAV that has that capability,” Nelson said in a conference-call press briefing, reported by the Florida Today newspaper. The Tallahassee Senator said the intelligence contradicted other reports senators had received before the war. “If that is an intelligence failure… we better find that out so we don’t have an intelligence failure in the future,” he said. The White House directed questions about the matter to the Department of Defence, which declined to comment. President Bush referred to UAVs, otherwise known as drones, during a speech in October last year. He warned of a “grave threat” from a “growing fleet” of the vehicles which might be used to carry out a September 11-style attack. He said: “We have also discovered that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. “We are concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using UAVs for missions targeting the United States.” But Senator Nelson said the classified briefing went further, warning that Iraq had actually developed ways of hitting the eastern seaboard with drones. breakingnews.iol.ie