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

To: jlallen who wrote (709305)	10/30/2005 7:26:52 AM
From: E. T.	Respond to of 769667

The Administration didn's say much, huh? sfgate.com The message was consistent. On Sept. 2, 2002, Cheney claimed there was "irrefutable evidence" that Iraq was restarting its clandestine nuclear weapons program. On Sept. 8, the New York Times ran a lengthy article, written by Michael R. Gordon and Judith Miller, quoting "senior administration officials" as saying there was proof that "Iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons," by acquiring special aluminum tubes that could be used in centrifuges to enrich uranium. The article added, "The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud." The metaphor became a mantra. That same day, Rice repeated in a television interview that Iraq was a threat and said, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The president prepared to weigh in with a speech planned for Oct. 8, in Cincinnati. But there was a hitch. Bush's advisers inserted, in an effort to build the case for war, a line claiming that the White House had discovered the Iraqis had sought to acquire uranium ore from Niger to build nuclear warheads.