11-17-2004, 04:40 PM
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So Fucking Banned
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Maybe this will help some of you get caught up.
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Today, Condoleezza Rice asserted she was not aware of the serious questions over the purpose of the aluminum tubes at the time that she publicly stated that they were indisputable evidence that Iraq was trying to reconstitute its nuclear program._ However, recent news reports show that almost a year before she made those statements, her staff had been told that the country?s leading nuclear weapons experts at the Department of Energy believed these tubes were for likely for artillery rockets._ Furthermore, as recently as last week, Rice claimed that there was still legitimate dispute about what the tubes were for, directly contradicting the Duelfer Report and the current consensus in the intelligence community that the tubes were not intended for nuclear purposes._
Rice Now Claims She Did Not Know Of the Energy Department?s Objections at the Time she said the Aluminum Tubes were for Nuclear Purposes._ Today, Dr. Rice claimed ?We did not learn the nature of that dispute until the N.I.E. was being produced almost a month later.? [FOX News Sunday, 10/10/04]
FACT: Rice Knew That Government Experts Disagreed With Assessment Of The Aluminum Tubes. Before her making her statement that the aluminum tubes were only intended for nuclear programs, Condoleezza Rice was aware that the government?s foremost nuclear experts had concluded that the tubes were most likely not for nuclear weapons at all? In fact, almost a year before, her staff had been told that these experts, at the Energy Department, ?seriously doubted that the tubes were for nuclear weapons? according to four officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and two senior administration officials. [New York Times, 10/2/04
Before The War, Rice Said That Aluminum Tubes Were Only Suited For Nuclear Programs._ In the lead-up to the war in Iraq, Condoleezza Rice said on CNN that the aluminum tubes were ?only really suited for nuclear weapons programs.? [CNN, 9/8/02]
FACT: Almost One Year Earlier, Energy Department Believed The Tubes Were Intended For Rockets. According to officials at the CIA and senior administration officials, experts at the Energy Department ?believed the tubes were likely intended for small artillery rockets.? [New York Times, 10/2/04]
Rice Says The Intelligence Community Is Still Debating Purpose Of The Tubes. Rice said last week, ?As I understand it, people are still debating [if the aluminum tubes were intended for nuclear purposes.? [ABC, ?This Week, 10/3/04]
FACT: Duelfer Report Said That Aluminum Tubes Were Intended For Rocket Programs.
Levin: Now relative to the aluminum tubes, your report says on page 21 that Baghdad?s interest in high strength, high specification aluminum tubes is best explained by its efforts to produce 81 mm rockets. Is that correct?
Duelfer: That is correct. That is my judgment that those -- those tubes were most likely destined for a rocket program. [Senate Armed Services Committee, 10/6/04]
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You guys could really avoid looking so stupid if you just disregard everything Rush Limbaugh has ever said. He's not the laughing stock of planet earth for nothing folks. |
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