Posted on 06/15/2005 5:34:19 PM PDT by woofie
Two leaked memos are raising further questions about whether the Bush administration ‘fixed’ its intel to justify the Iraq war.WEB EXCLUSIVE
Updated: 6:59 p.m. ET June 15, 2005June 15 - Two senior British government officials today acknowledged as authentic a series of 2002 pre-Iraq war memos stating that Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program was "effectively frozen" and that there was "no recent evidence" of Iraqi ties to international terrorism—private conclusions that contradicted two key pillars of the Bush administration's public case for the invasion in March 2003.
A March 8, 2002, secret "options" paper prepared by Prime Minister Tony Blair's top national-security aides also stated that intelligence on Saddam's purported weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was "poor." While noting that Saddam had used such weapons in the past and could do so again "if his regime were threatened," the options paper concluded "there is no greater threat now than in recent years that Saddam will use WMD."
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Barney Frank is sure to be there.
The first item on Conyers' agenda should be the 1998 Resolution, signed by Bill Clinton, that said the policy of the United States government in Iraq should be regime change. This hearing is a political farce, brought to you by the inane Conyers.
play hardball.
Every Republican should run on the platform that the Democratic Party cares more about the rights of a terrorist than the rights of an American citizen.
Make them howl, who cares anymore, they clearly do not have this country's best interest anywhere on their radar.
bump ...The DU crowd is eating this up
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