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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (6714)	3/19/2004 12:23:22 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

In October 2002, the CIA told George Bush unequivocally Iraq never tried to secure yellow cake from Nigeria and told Bush not to say that. Four months later, Bush said it anyway in his SOTU. Why did Bush do it? He wanted to take over Iraq and lied to achieve this. As Treas. Sec Paul O'Neill stated, Bush's paramount goal from the moment he became president was to invade Iraq and use any means to do so. CIA Warned White House Last Oct.(2002) That Iraq/Uranium Claims Based On Forged Documents dissidentvoice.org by Jason Leopold Dissident Voice July 15, 2003 The CIA successfully got the White House last October to omit references to Iraq’s alleged attempts to purchase uranium from Niger because the agency concluded that the documents used to back up the allegations were forgeries, according to two Democratic members of the Senate’s intelligence committee, both of whom were briefed by the CIA in classified hearings last year about the uranium allegations. But it still remains unclear how, after briefing the White House and the intelligence committee that the documents about Iraq’s attempt to procure uranium from Niger wound up in President Bush’s State of the Union address in January. Bush and his top White House advisers said last week the CIA cleared the erroneous information referenced in the State of the Union address. But White House officials did not disclose that the British intelligence documents Bush cited were known forgeries. The claims that Iraq tried to buy uranium from South Africa was a key point the Bush administration used in trying to sway the public to support a war against the country. George Tenet, director of the CIA, took responsibility Friday for allowing Bush to use the information in his State of the Union address in January. Still, Democrats and a handful of Republicans want a broader probe on pre-war intelligence information used by the White House to build a case for war against Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair first mentioned the allegations last September about Iraq trying to obtain large quantities of uranium from a South African country just three hours before a Commons debate on whether Britain would use military force and back the United States in a war against Iraq. In an exclusive interview last week, the two Democratic U.S. Senators said the CIA tried to get Blair to remove the uranium reference from a dossier released by British intelligence officials because the documents used to support the allegations were “crude forgeries,” the Senators said. The Senators said they could not speak “on the record” because the information the CIA shared with the intelligence committee is still considered classified. A spokesperson for Blair and the CIA would not return numerous calls for comment. These members said the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA last September of withholding information the committee requested on U.S. military action in Iraq and that after the accusations were made publicly, the CIA briefed the committee on the existence of the phony uranium documents and other intelligence information The British dossier, which said Iraq had sought large quantities of uranium from South Africa in an effort to jump start its nuclear weapons program, were quickly dismissed as forgeries last October in a private meeting in Vienna at the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to the head of the IAEA, Mohammed ElBaradei.