MSNBC was protecting Bush's WMD lies way back in Sept 02

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He was lying LONG before the Niger forgeries, and MSNBC covered for him. They are complicit, IMHO

Maybe it's time for them to finally re-post this article?


http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/msnbc-iaea-report.htm

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Blair cited a newly released satellite photo of Iraq identifying new construction at several sites linked in the past to Baghdad's development of nuclear weapons. And both leaders mentioned a 1998 report by the U.N.-affiliated International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, that said Saddam could be six months away from developing nuclear weapons.

"I don't know what more evidence we need," Bush said as he greeted Blair for a brainstorming session on Iraq. "We owe it to future generations to deal with this problem."

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Contrary to Bush's claim, however, the 1998 IAEA report did not say that Iraq was six months away from developing nuclear capability, NBC News' Robert Windrem reported Saturday.

Instead, Windrem reported, the Vienna, Austria-based agency said in 1998 that Iraq had been six to 24 months away from such capability before the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the U.N.-monitored weapons inspections that followed.

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WHITE HOUSE ADMITS ERROR

A senior White House official acknowledged Saturday night that the 1998 report did not say what Bush claimed. "What happened was, we formed our own conclusions based on the report," the official told NBC News' Norah O'Donnell.

Meanwhile, Mark Gwozdecky, a spokesman for the U.N. agency, disputed Bush's and Blair's assessment of the satellite photograph, which was first publicized Friday. Contrary to news service reports, there was no specific photo or building that aroused suspicions, he told Windrem.

-on edit,

How can we, as Americans, know if ANY of their "intelligence" is real, at this point?

When they issue these orange terror alerts, is that also based on forged documents, and 10-year-old conclusions??

could al Qaeda be planning another attack on us at this very minute, but these idiots don't know it???

[seeker4ever]

1. and this...

Powell lies to U.N.

Did Powell Mislead Public About Iraq Terrorist Connections?
"Response to Secretary of State Colin Powell's Allegations of an Iraqi-Al
Qaeda Terrorist Connection"

By David Cortright and Alistair Millar, Fourth Freedom Forum

Updated February 10, 2003

1. Secretary Powell misrepresented the alleged terrorist training camp in
northern Iraq.

Secretary Powell claimed and presented a photograph showing that a
"terrorist poison and explosives factory" is located in Khurmal, a Kurdish
village near the Iranian border. Local Kurdish officials allied with the
United States told the New York Times that no such camp exists at that
location. 1 A senior official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),
which receives financial assistance from the United States, said he had no
information about the compound. A local administrator for the group that
controls Khurmal said Powell's claim was "not true."

A few days after Powell's presentation, local Kurdish officials brought
British journalists to the alleged site in the hamlet of Saryatt. The
journalists reported no evidence of a chemical weapons or explosives camp.
Said the London Observer: "the terrorist factory was nothing of the
kind-more a dilapidated collection of concrete buildings. . . . There is no sign of chemical weapons anywhere."

2.The BBC reported seeing no obvious evidence of chemical weapons production.
The site was "crawling with . . . gunmen but nothing more sinister than small arms was on display."

[seeker4ever]

2. Deliberate effort to deceive!

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3. drip drip drip

I'm willing to grant some limited immunity from prosecution, for ANY media whore who comes clean NOW

otherwise, they can ALL share a cell with W in G'tmo for all I care

[seeker4ever]

4. Here's a look into Powell's COLON:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uwgforum/message/792