To drum up public fear and, thus, support for the war, Bushler reported the International Atomic Energy Administration discovered Iraq was building the A-Bomb. When will our glorious news hounds remember this lie from the Little Turd from Crawford?
Agency Disavows Report on Iraq Armsby Joseph Curl
Washington Times. Sept. 27, 2002
The International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report cited by President Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was "six months away" from developing a nuclear weapon does not exist.
"There's never been a report like that issued from this agency," Mark Gwozdecky, the IAEA's chief spokesman, said yesterday in a telephone interview from the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
"We've never put a time frame on how long it might take Iraq to construct a nuclear weapon in 1998," said the spokesman of the agency charged with assessing Iraq's nuclear capability for the United Nations.
In a Sept. 7 news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Mr. Bush said: "I would remind you that when the inspectors first went into Iraq and were denied — finally denied access
, a report came out of the Atomic — the IAEA that they were six months away from developing a weapon.
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0927-08.htm
Edit: Fixed first sentence.