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   From: jonez@norcom.ca   
      
   PM wrote:   
   > TO ELEIMINATE OR SO HE BELIEVED THE ONLY ENNEMY THAT  COULD  "TAKE   
   > CARE OF HIM "...   
      
      
   Lie #1: "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting   
   its nuclear weapons program ... Iraq has attempted to purchase   
   high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas   
   centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons."   
      
   -President Bush, Oct. 7, 2002   
      
   Fact: This story, leaked to and breathlessly reported by The New   
   York Times' usually astute Middle East correspondent Judith Miller,   
   has turned out to be complete baloney. Department of Energy officials   
   who monitor nuclear plants say the tubes could not be used for   
   enriching uranium. One intelligence analyst who was part of the tubes   
   investigation, angrily told The New Republic: "You had senior American   
   officials like Condoleezza Rice saying the only use of this aluminum   
   really is uranium centrifuges. She said that on television. And that's   
   just a lie."   
      
      
   Lie #2: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein   
   recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."   
      
   -President Bush, Jan.28, 2003, in the State of the Union address   
      
   Fact: This whopper was based on a document that the White House   
   already knew to be a forgery, thanks to honest analysis by the CIA.   
   Sold to Italian intelligence by some hustler, the document carried the   
   signature of an official who had been out of office for 10 years and   
   referenced a constitution that was no longer in effect. The ex-ambassador   
   who the CIA sent to check out the story is angry: "They knew the Niger   
   story was a flat-out lie," he told The New Republic, anonymously. "They   
   [the White House] were unpersuasive about aluminum tubes and added this   
   to make their case more strongly."   
      
      
   Lie #3: "We believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear   
   weapons."   
      
   -Vice President Cheney, March 16, 2003, on "Meet the Press"   
      
   Fact: There was and is absolutely no basis for this statement. CIA   
   reports up through 2002 showed no evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons   
   program.   
      
      
   Lie #4: "[The CIA possesses] solid reporting of senior-level contacts   
   between Iraq and al-Qaeda going back a decade."   
      
   -CIA Director George Tenet in a written statement released Oct. 7, 2002   
   and echoed in that evening's speech by President Bush   
      
   Fact: Intelligence agencies knew of tentative contacts between Saddam and   
   al-Qaeda in the early '90s, but found no proof of a continuing   
   relationship. In other words, by tweaking language, Tenet and Bush spun   
   the intelligence 180 degrees to say exactly the opposite of what it   
   suggested.   
      
      
   Lie #5: "We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in   
   bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases ... Alliance with   
   terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without   
   leaving any fingerprints."   
      
   -President Bush, Oct. 7   
      
   Fact: No evidence of this has ever been leaked or produced. Colin   
   Powell told the U.N. this alleged training took place in a camp in   
   northern Iraq. To his great embarrassment, the area he indicated was   
   later revealed to be outside Iraq's control and patrolled by Allied   
   war planes.   
      
      
   Lie #6: "We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has   
   a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be   
   used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.   
   We are concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs   
   [unmanned aerial vehicles] for missions targeting the United States."   
      
   -President Bush, Oct. 7   
      
   Fact: Said drones can't fly more than 300 miles, and Iraq is 6,000   
   miles from the U.S. coastline. Furthermore, Iraq's drone-building   
   program wasn't much more advanced than your average model plane   
   enthusiast. And isn't a "manned aerial vehicle" just a scary way to   
   say "plane"?   
      
      
   Lie #7: "We have seen intelligence over many months that they have   
   chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and   
   that they're weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command and   
   control arrangements have been established."   
      
   -President Bush, Feb. 8, 2003   
      
   Fact: Despite a massive search by U.S. and British forces in Iraq,   
   there are no signs, traces or examples of chemical weapons being   
   deployed in the field, or anywhere else during the war.   
      
      
   Lie #8: "Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile   
   of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. That is enough   
   to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets."   
      
   -Secretary of State Colin Powell, Feb. 5, 2003, in remarks to the U.N.   
   Security Council   
      
   Fact: Putting aside the glaring fact that not one drop of this massive   
   stockpile has been found, U.S. intelligence reports show that these   
   stocks-if they existed-were well past their use-by date and therefore   
   useless as weapon fodder.   
      
      
   Lie #9: "We know where [Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction] are. They're   
   in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north   
   somewhat."   
      
   -Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003   
      
   Fact: Needless to say, no such weapons were found, not to the east, west,   
   south or north, somewhat or otherwise.   
      
      
   Lie #10: "Yes, we found a biological laboratory in Iraq which the U.N.   
   prohibited."   
      
   -President Bush in remarks in Poland, published internationally June 1,   
   2003   
      
   Fact: This was reference to the discovery of two modified truck trailers   
   that the CIA claimed were potential mobile biological weapons lab. But   
   British and American experts (including a recent report by the State   
   Department's intelligence wing) have since declared this to be untrue.   
   According to the British, and much to Prime Minister Tony Blair's   
   embarrassment, the trailers are actually exactly what Iraq said they   
   were: facilities to fill weather balloons, sold to them by the British   
   themselves.   
      
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