ARI evades ALL important (forgery) Question on 3/14/03

[VaLabor]

FROM MARCH 14, 2003 WHITE HOUSE PRESS CONFERENCE - JUST PRIOR TO WAR

Q Ari, the President said in his State of the Union address, the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. And since then, the IAEA said that those were forged documents --

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm sorry, whose statement was that?

Q The President, in his State of the Union address. Since then, the IAEA has said those were forged documents. Was the administration aware of any doubts about these documents, the authenticity of the documents, from any government agency or department before it was submitted to the IAEA?

MR. FLEISCHER: These are matters that are always reviewed with an eye toward the various information that comes in and is analyzed by a variety of different people. The President's concerns about Iraq stem from multiple places, involving multiple threats that Iraq can possess, and these are matters that remain discussed.

Q Thank you.

MR. FLEISCHER: Thank you.

END 1:06 P.M. EST


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And that was it. The question that has become so critically important today (after the war) was asked back then, and look how Ari handled it - didn't even begin to answer it - then the conference ended, with the "journalist" giving a "thank you" for not answering the damn question.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030314-12.html

[betty boop]

1. I'm going to miss ARI

and his lies, And the way he avoids the real issues. He is the appitamy of this administration.

[arcane1]

2. Bush and Blair both lied about another IAEA report back in september 02

and &$#@% MSNBC ran a story on the lies....

then pulled it off their site :grr:


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

-snip-

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."

-snip-

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.

-snip-

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.

[Erika]

3. That's the Ari Mouthspeak.

He was nothing other than a puppet handler.

[izzie]

4. This is Bush and that group to a Tee.

'I was not in the loop' all over. Like father like son. I must say Reagon was the same. Guess it is time that we stop saying our side do a thing wrong, when we know they do, and do the same as the GOP.