Questions About Iraq Weapons Haunt US Election Year

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040109/ts_nm/iraq_usa_weapons_dc

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The failure to find Iraqi weapons of mass destruction looks set to dog the Bush administration in an election year amid persistent accusations it exaggerated evidence in making a case for war.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a liberal-leaning U.S. think tank, issued a report on Thursday that compared public and declassified intelligence information with statements made by administration officials.

It concluded that the administration made the threat from Iraq (news - web sites) sound more dire than the underlying information.
"We have found and have gone to some length to define and lay out serious misrepresentation of the facts over and above what was in the intelligence findings," Jessica Mathews, president of the think tank and one of the authors, said.

In one example, she said U.N. weapons inspectors said the amount of biological growth medium that Iraq had could produce three times as much anthrax as it had declared if it used all that growth medium to produce anthrax.

[asjr]

1. Why does

nobody use the sentence, George Bush, you are a liar! This is no time to be pussyfooting around the truth. We here all know he is a liar. Why didn't the Carnegie foundation say it. If someone said that to his face maybe the media would feel free (even though they are bought)to finally get out from under the GOP.

[Sandpiper]

2. We should all be prepared...

That if this issue becomes troublesome for Bush, there will be an "unexpected" discovery of a "hidden" cache of WMD.

What Bush and his handlers are banking on is, "we caught Saddam and he was a bad guy, who cares if there were no WMD." That's more or less what he told Dianne Sawyer.

[lightbulb]

3. Anything that gets found

Will be subject to intense scrutiny by credible members of the world community. Any reluctance to allow this to happen is going to further deepen the suspicion and anger of the thinking people of America and the world. They know this, and it is why they have put off a fake find for so long.