You know, I have been a bit busy on stuff this month and I don't know how this one slipped by me, but it did.
I apologize if this got covered earlier, but are most of you aware of the Washington Posts' piece written on August 10th? It shows how Bush's Statements are simply contradicted By Facts.
the article entitled, "Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence." Despite its rep from Watergate days, the Post has been very reticent to suggest the White House wasn't being entirely candid with the American people. This and a few other pieces suggest that is changing.
Bush's Statement The Washington Post says...
"A report came out of the... [International Atomic Energy Agency], that [the Iraqis] were six months away from developing a weapon. I don't know what more evidence we need." Camp David, 9/7/02
"There was no new IAEA report... Bush cast as present evidence the contents of a report from 1996, updated in 1998 and 1999. In those accounts, the IAEA described the history of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program that arms inspectors had systematically destroyed."
Bush's Statement The Washington Post says...
"Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon." United Nations, 9/12/02
"Gas centrifuge experts consulted by the U.S. government said repeatedly for more than a year that the aluminum tubes were not suitable or intended for uranium enrichment. By December 2002, the experts said new evidence had further undermined the government's assertion. The Bush administration portrayed the scientists as a minority and emphasized that the experts did not describe the centrifuge theory as impossible."
Bush's Statement The Washington Post says...
"Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." Cincinnati OH, 10/7/02
"What Hussein did not have was the principal requirement for a nuclear weapon, a sufficient quantity of highly enriched uranium or plutonium. And the U.S. government, authoritative intelligence officials said, had only circumstantial evidence that Iraq was trying to obtain those materials."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2003Aug9.html
I hope to god this man is not re-elected. Also, I am very sadden how Judge Moore with his ten commandments gets so much more media attention than something more dangerous is occuring and being reported on...but no one picks up on it.
Imagine, if this was the early 70's and no other news agencies picked up on Woodward and Bernstein's work...It would have been more NIxon.. wow.
I apologize if this got covered earlier, but are most of you aware of the Washington Posts' piece written on August 10th? It shows how Bush's Statements are simply contradicted By Facts.
the article entitled, "Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence." Despite its rep from Watergate days, the Post has been very reticent to suggest the White House wasn't being entirely candid with the American people. This and a few other pieces suggest that is changing.
Bush's Statement The Washington Post says...
"A report came out of the... [International Atomic Energy Agency], that [the Iraqis] were six months away from developing a weapon. I don't know what more evidence we need." Camp David, 9/7/02
"There was no new IAEA report... Bush cast as present evidence the contents of a report from 1996, updated in 1998 and 1999. In those accounts, the IAEA described the history of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program that arms inspectors had systematically destroyed."
Bush's Statement The Washington Post says...
"Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon." United Nations, 9/12/02
"Gas centrifuge experts consulted by the U.S. government said repeatedly for more than a year that the aluminum tubes were not suitable or intended for uranium enrichment. By December 2002, the experts said new evidence had further undermined the government's assertion. The Bush administration portrayed the scientists as a minority and emphasized that the experts did not describe the centrifuge theory as impossible."
Bush's Statement The Washington Post says...
"Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." Cincinnati OH, 10/7/02
"What Hussein did not have was the principal requirement for a nuclear weapon, a sufficient quantity of highly enriched uranium or plutonium. And the U.S. government, authoritative intelligence officials said, had only circumstantial evidence that Iraq was trying to obtain those materials."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2003Aug9.html
I hope to god this man is not re-elected. Also, I am very sadden how Judge Moore with his ten commandments gets so much more media attention than something more dangerous is occuring and being reported on...but no one picks up on it.
Imagine, if this was the early 70's and no other news agencies picked up on Woodward and Bernstein's work...It would have been more NIxon.. wow.
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i just don't see it as a very presidential speech pattern.
