re-post from July
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http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/25_condi.htmlJuly 25, 2003
The Amazing Stories of Condoleezza Rice
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY | Updated 8/1/03
Condoleezza Rice is the nation’s top national security official. After September 11th, she claimed that the White House had no prior knowledge that Al Qaeda was planning to hijack planes in a terrorist attack. That assertion was proven false. In the months before the Iraq War, Rice repeatedly reassured the public that the U.S. was seeking a peaceful resolution, and that war was not a foregone conclusion. However, it now appears that at the same time she was saying this, she was telling senior State Department officials that the decision to go to war had already been made – well before diplomatic efforts to diffuse the situation even began. Most recently, it appears that she has given three separate, incongruent stories about her role in the massive intelligence breakdown that led to the White House making false statements about Iraq’s nuclear capabilities. It appears that Rice has either been misleading the public about her role in that fiasco, or alternately, has been grossly negligent in not reading the government’s most important intelligence documents.
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http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/25_condi.html#update-- 8/1/03 UPDATE --
CONDI’S AMAZING IRAQ-NUKE STORY #4 – CLAIMS NO ONE SAID IRAQ POSED A NUCLEAR THREAT WITHIN A YEAR
CLAIM:
"He's trying to acquire nuclear weapons. Nobody ever said that it was going to be the next year."
- Condoleeza Rice in PBS interview, 7/30/03
FACT:
"{Iraq} could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year."
- George Bush, 10/8/02
"This regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material could build one within a year."
- George Bush, 9/28/02
"Today Saddam Hussein has the scientists and infrastructure for a nuclear weapons program and has illicitly sought to purchase the equipment needed to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. Should his regime acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year."
- George Bush, National Radio Address, 9/14/02
"Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year."
- George Bush, speech to U.N., 9/12/02
"The intelligence community also had high confidence in the judgment that, and I quote, 'Iraq could make a nuclear weapon in months to a year once it acquires sufficient weapons-grade fissile material,' end quote."
- Vice President Dick Cheney, 7/23/03