Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>BnB, Was the intel info erroneous or a fabrication to justify war? If it is proven the Admin lied, Bush is a lame duck<<<

Been there, done that already and still has a 70% approval rating. As with everything else that makes this administration look bad, these stories disappeared like morning fog shortly after they surfaced.

"The International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report cited by President Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was "six months away" from developing a nuclear weapon does not exist."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0927-08.htm

"There was only one problem with the documents. They were forgeries. After all the buildup, the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna, stepped in to tell the Security Council that the papers were bogus. "The IAEA has concluded," said its director-general, "with the concurrence of outside experts that these documents... are in fact not authentic."
The White House went virtually mute, as if the whole episode had never happened."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0314/schanberg.php

"When President Bush traveled to the United Nations in September to make his case against Iraq, he brought along a rare piece of evidence for what he called Iraq's "continued appetite" for nuclear bombs. .......But according to government officials and weapons experts, the claim now appears to be seriously in doubt."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2003%2F01%2F24%2FMN163516.DTL