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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:48 PM
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U.S. weighs divulging Iran-Iraq proof


By KATHERINE SHRADER and ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writers 2 hours, 20 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is haunted by the history of intelligence blunders about
Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction as the United States tries to document that
Iran is providing lethal help to Iraqi fighters.

After weeks of preparation and revisions, U.S. officials are preparing to detail evidence supporting administration's claims of Iran's meddlesome and deadly activities. A briefing was scheduled Sunday in Baghdad.

The Iran dossier, some 200 pages thick in its classified form, was revised heavily after officials decided it was not ready for release as planned last month. What is made public probably would be short, and shorter on details than the administration recently had suggested.

No one who has seen the files has suggested the evidence is thin. But senior officials — gun-shy after the drubbing the administration took for the faulty intelligence leading to the 2003
Iraq invasion — were underwhelmed by the packaging.

Officials from several intelligence agencies scrutinized the presentation to make sure it was clear and that "we don't in any way jeopardize our sources and methods in making the presentation," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday.

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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:02 PM
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1. top
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:23 PM
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2. They've been spot on about everything else
Edited on Sat Feb-10-07 04:25 PM by jimshoes
up to this point. :sarcasm:

They make it up as they go along don't they? :mad:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:26 PM
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3. Yea, bushco seems real 'haunted' don't they? Bullshit.
Edited on Sat Feb-10-07 04:26 PM by spanone
So now we should believe them about Iran because they took weeks to prepare their propaganda. Bullshit.
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SutaUvaca Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:37 PM
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4. Isn't that cute!
This time they pretend to be cautious about releasing "evidence."
So now I'll figure it's more believable when "it" finally gets released.
NOT.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:54 PM
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6. only the backwash (and not all of it) will buy it!
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:40 PM
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5. Hope This Thread Goes Better Than The One you Started Last Night
What a Shitstorm!

And started with the best of intentions

On This Subject:

I don't think there is any way to stop them now
Even with the majority we are dragged down by the
corporate (DLC) wing of our party. Co-opted, like they
always planned it to be.

And now their shill media has begun the drumbeat.

If there is anything or any of us left after the smoke clears
maybe, just maybe, the lessons learned will change the world
at least for awhile

Nice knowing you helderheid
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:58 PM
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7. Last night was bizarre!
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 05:37 PM
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8. What possible reason could they have for hiding this "proof"?
Other than that it might get easily debunked by a quick google search?
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 05:39 PM
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9. I do believe you answered your own question!
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