| Date: | Sunday June 22, @07:47AM |
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| Author: | ewing2001 |
| Topic: | News |
| from the Independent-UK dept. | |
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
The Independent - UK 6-22-3
The leading Democratic presidential contender John Kerry has brought the Iraqi weapons controversy to the forefront of the White House race, accusing George Bush of "misleading every one of us" when he took the US to war against Saddam Hussein.
Senator Kerry said the President made the case for war based on at least two faulty intelligence findings - that Iraq had sought to buy uranium from Niger, and that the Baghdad regime had drones able to mount biological attacks on the US. Mr Kerry, on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, said Mr Bush broke his promise to build an international coalition against Saddam and then waged a war based on questionable intelligence. "He misled every one of us," the Massachusetts Senator said..."
Members mentioned include George H. W. Bush, William F. Buckley, Dean Witter, Jr., Senator John Kerry, and President George W Bush.
Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee say they are not aware of any specific evidence that President George W. Bush intentionally misled the public about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program in the weeks and months ...
...The ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Senator Jay Rockefeller, was less certain. Speaking on the same program, he said he is troubled by some of President Bush's public statements leading up to the war that have since been dismissed as false, including allegations that Iraq purchased equipment to enrich uranium from Niger. But he added that he has yet to see specific evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the Bush administration.
"I do not know of any, but I have always been concerned, on a personal basis, about the whole matter of Niger and the enriched uranium that was said to have been imported into Iraq for nuclear purposes," he said. "But I am not going to conclude from that that the president was deliberately misleading. I have concerns about that, but that is what our inquiry is for [to determine]."
Other Democrats are more outspoken and have called for a formal investigation into whether intelligence was manipulated to justify the war in Iraq...
Sun Jun 22, 1:00 AM ET
By Walter Pincus - WP/Yahoo
In a nationally televised address last October in which he sought to rally congressional support for a resolution authorizing war against Iraq , President Bush declared that the government of Saddam Hussein posed an immediate threat to the United States by outlining what he said was evidence pointing to its ongoing ties with al Qaeda.
A still-classified national intelligence report circulating within the Bush administration at the time, however, portrayed a far less clear picture about the link between Iraq and al Qaeda than the one presented by the president, according to U.S. intelligence analysts and congressional sources who have read the report.
The National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, which represented the consensus of the U.S. intelligence community, contained cautionary language about Iraq's connections with al Qaeda and warnings about the reliability of conflicting reports by Iraqi defectors and captured al Qaeda members about the ties, the sources said..."
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