June 26, 2003




War lies

  • Dems discover cache of genitalia, push for deeper probe on Iraqi WMD
    June 26, 2003 - WASHINGTON (AP) -- The early stages of a House Intelligence Committee's review of prewar intelligence on Iraq has found that the administration ignored doubts about Iraq's chemical and biological weapons capability, the panel's top Democrat said.

    Rep. Jane Harman also said intelligence linking al-Qaida to Iraq "is conflicting, contrary to what was claimed by the administration."

    Two Democratic amendments are to be considered today. One by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas would require the U.S. comptroller general to study U.S. intelligence-sharing with U.N. inspectors before the war.

    The other by Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio calls for the CIA's inspector general to audit all telephone and electronic communications between the CIA and Dick 'dick' Cheney relating to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

  • State Dept. challenges Iraq trailer lies story
    The State Department's intelligence unit has challenged a determination by the CIA that mobile trailers found in Iraq were intended for making biological weapons, The New York Times reported today.

    The newspaper quoted U.S. government officials as saying a classified June 2 memo from the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research stated that it was too early to decide the trailers were proof Iraq had a program for making biological weapons. - link.

  • Suckas!
    Secretary of State Colin Powell was bluffing the UN when claiming that Iraq had a robust program of weapons of mass destruction, according to the Norwegian weapon inspector Jorn Siljeholm.

  • It depends on what the definition of "lie" is, I guess
    "But a lie is, well … that’s really more an exaggeration. Unless, of course, it’s a misstatement. Except in cases involving weapons of mass destruction, when often it’s simply a matter of 'over-hype.'

    "Actually, it’s all fairly hard for me to keep up with. All I know is that under George W. Bush the pundits who had no trouble calling Bill Clinton a liar have suddenly decided lying is a very subtle, hard-to-define, complex matter." - Josh Marshall, in The Hill.



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