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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 12:52 AM
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what about these forged documents......"Yellowcake from Niger".....
the Niger component of the White House case for war quickly imploded. Asked for evidence to support President Bush’s contention in his State of the Union speech that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa, the administration turned over the Niger documents to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Within two hours, using the Google search engine, IAEA officials in Vienna determined the documents to be a crude forgery. At the urging of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI launched an investigation into the Niger documents in an effort to determine if the United States government had been duped by a deliberate “disinformation” campaign organized by a foreign intelligence agency or others with a political agenda relating to Iraq.

WHAT ABOUT IT CHIMPO?????
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 12:56 AM
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1. CBS has the story and is sitting on it until after the election
Edited on Sat Sep-25-04 01:00 AM by xray s
At the same time CBS CEO comes out and endorses Bush for reelection...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/25/politics/campaign/25cbs.html

60 Minutes' Delays Report Questioning Reasons for Iraq War
By KATE ZERNIKE

Published: September 25, 2004


CBS News said yesterday that it had postponed a "60 Minutes" segment that questioned Bush administration rationales for going to war in Iraq...

The Iraq segment had been ready for broadcast on Sept. 8, CBS said, but was bumped at the last minute for the segment on Mr. Bush's National Guard service. The Guard segment was considered a highly competitive report, one that other journalists were pursuing.

CBS said last night that the report on the war would not run before Nov. 2.

"We now believe it would be inappropriate to air the report so close to the presidential election," the spokeswoman, Kelli Edwards, said in a statement...

According to the Newsweek report, the "60 Minutes" segment was to have detailed how the administration relied on false documents when it said Iraq had tried to buy a lightly processed form of uranium, known as yellowcake, from Niger. The administration later acknowledged that the information was incorrect and that the documents were most likely fake.


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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 02:23 AM
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3. 'Inappropriate'? Why? The voters need to know about it
God they must really be scared. You know if it was a Democratic President, that shit would be reported nonstop!
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EnfantTerrible Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 02:11 AM
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2. There is another thread dealing with this right now
on the General Discussion Board entitled "Explain to me how forged documents"
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Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 02:29 AM
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4. Let's not talk about the real issues!
Let's argue about what happened 30 years ago.
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