Three years ago today: El Baradei says Bush lied in his State of the Union

[Cocoa]

In the course of a general smackdown of Bush's case for war, he drops this bombshell that should have spurred impeachment hearings, but which went mostly unnoticed...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/07/sprj.irq.un.transcript.elbaradei/

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For its part, Iraq has provided the IAEA with a comprehensive explanation of its relations with Niger and has described a visit by an Iraqi official to a number of African countries, including Niger in February 1999, which Iraq thought might have given rise to the reports.

The IAEA was able to review correspondence coming from various bodies of the government of Niger and to compare the form, format, contents and signature of that correspondence with those of the alleged procurement-related documentation.

Based on thorough analysis, the IAEA has concluded with the concurrence of outside experts that these documents which formed the basis for the report of recent uranium transaction between Iraq and Niger are in fact not authentic. We have therefore concluded that these specific allegations are unfounded. However, we will continue to follow up any additional evidence if it emerges relevant to efforts by Iraq to illicitly import nuclear materials.

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[FloridaPat]

1. It only took them 24 hours to figure it out too.

[Richard Steele]

3. Actually, I think it took them about ten seconds.

Have you seen the actual forgeries?
The "Official Seal" on them looks like it was drawn on with a damn CRAYON.
Those documents decieved NO ONE!

[FloridaPat]

5. Plus the gov't official who signed it wasn't in office the date it was

supposidly signed. I did see it. This whole thing has been sad.

[Roland99]

2. That's why it's important we push and push to get stories like this out>>>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=596174&mesg_id=596174

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Sad

*sigh* It's so frustrating.

[FloridaPat]

6. The thing is, almost all the bases for the invasion were debunked

before the actual invasion. * was suppose to report back to congress before he invaded. He did that by letter a couple of hours before the invasion. He was going in and no one was going to stop him. Certainly not the idiot congress repubs who faithfully follow him. I sure hope there is a very special hell for leaders of countries that are traitors.