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Originally posted by lendaddy
I am talking about "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" or "I spent Christmas in Cambodia" type stuff here.
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How about making up fictitious International Atomic Energy Agency report conclusions to support the Iraq invasion?
“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. I don't know what more evidence we need.” (Bush speaking at a news conference Sept. 7 2002 with Tony Blair)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020907-2.html
By Joseph Curl
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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.