WTF Is It Now?!?

BUSH LYING ABOUT IRAQ 'EVIDENCE' ...
...and threatening the naysayers.

One of the key pieces of "evidence" in the Bush administration's case for military action against Saddam Hussein is being questioned by a number of leading US scientists. It is also alleged that the administration is silencing dissent among its own analysts who have raised questions.

Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney was all over the news a few weeks ago saying the discovery of shipments of high-strength aluminum tubes to Iraq was 'proof' that Saddam was "actively and aggressively" trying to develop a nuclear program.

But a report from the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) says such claims cannot be made. The report concludes: "By themselves these attempted procurements are not evidence that Iraq is in possession of, or close to possessing, nuclear weapons. They do not provide evidence that Iraq has an operating centrifuge plant or when such a plant could be operational."

David Albright, the director of ISIS and a scientist with first-hand experience of Iraq's nuclear weapons program as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's inspection team, said there was a debate within the US scientific community about the government's claims but added that the Bush administration had clamped down on such discussion. "I don't know why there is not more debate. I have heard that a lot of people are expected to remain silent. [The Bush administration] has certainly scared people," he said. "I met one government scientist who said his phone was being monitored."


"There ought to be limits to freedom." - the Dictator-tot

"Watch what you say." - WH spokes-tool Ari Fleischer