Second Bush statement on Iraq debunked

POSTED AT 9:29 PM EDT Thursday, Jul. 17, 2003
Second Bush statement on Iraq debunked
Associated Press

A key Iraqi scientist recently told the CIA high-strength aluminum tubes bought by Iraq weren't meant for nuclear bomb production, as U.S. President George W. Bush suggested in his State of the Union address, two experts on Iraq's nuclear program said.

Mahdi Shukur Obeidi, who headed a uranium-enrichment unit vital to Iraq's pre-1991 bomb plans, "also said that since '91 they hadn't resurrected a nuclear weapon program," said former weapons inspector David Albright, a U.S. physicist who acted as go-between for Obeidi to talk with U.S. authorities a few weeks ago.

The assertion Iraq had revived its nuclear project was central to the Bush administration's call for war early this year.

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posted before?

this tripe are so incredibly tired of it. Sigh, no, those are trucks for carrying helium tanks. Sigh, no, those centrifuges are ten years old, etc. etc. etc. And it is only going to get worse as the administration grasps at more and more straws.

... buried under his rose bushes....

They were happy to propagandize that, but, from this article, it seems that he was saying this about the aluminum at the same time he was out digging in the garden, and these remarks weren't made public then....