Iraq Nuke Hoax, just Tip of Iceberg?

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

from www.antiwar.com

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EG11Ak02.html

Digging for dirt
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - The administration of President George W Bush is finding itself increasingly beleaguered by growing charges by retired intelligence and foreign service officers that administration hawks exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq in order to press Washington into war.

The White House was forced to admit earlier this week that Bush's assertion during his State of the Union address in late January regarding Saddam Hussein's alleged attempts to buy uranium in Africa for a supposed nuclear arms program was based on flawed intelligence and should have been omitted from the speech.

But a growing number of lawmakers and independent analysts are suggesting that the uranium report - which was actually based on crudely forged documents supposedly provided by an Italian intelligence agency - may be just the tip of the iceberg of an effort by neo-conservative and right-wing hawks centered primarily in the Pentagon and around Vice President Dick Cheney to skew the intelligence to make their case for war.

"The Bush administration did not provide an accurate picture of the military threat with respect to Iraq," according to Gregory Thielmann, who served as the director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs Office in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), until last September.

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[trumad]

1. Anyone who knows Strauss and his students

shouldn't be surprised about all this deception!

[bif]

2. It better be the tip of the iceburg

Time for the Dems to show somke balls and put these criminals in jail where they belong.

[Beetwasher]

3. It most certainly is. They didn't have a SINGLE PIECE OF GOOD EVIDENCE

Astoundingly, they showed all the evidence they had before the war, but made everyone believe that there was a lot more damning stuff that couldn't be shown for security reasons. This was a lie. They showed it all, the forged niger docs, the aluminum tubes, the balsa wood drones, the pictures of trucks, the plagiarized dossier. THIS WAS ALL THEY HAD AND IT WAS ALL BAD! Every single one of these pieces of evidence is based on lies and the press hasn't even gone there yet.

[walkon]

4. You are so right!

And the Democrats had better be sure to make this clear to all at each and every opportunity. This administration has LIED about every thing it presented to justify the INVASION of Iraq. Not to mention all the lies and distortions about every domestic and international policy they have advocated.

[bigwoody]

5. My thoughts exactly

This is just the 1st hammer to beat the chimp over the skull with. They really thought the "dancing in the streets" bullshit would overcome all the lies for going to war. Arrogant bastards!!