[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Tenet Exposes Bush's Misleading on WMD

[Morton K.Brussel]

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> Date: February 5, 2004 2:30:35 PM CST
> To: brussel at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Tenet Exposes Bush's Misleading on WMD
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> THE DAILY MIS-LEAD
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> TENET EXPOSES BUSH'S MISLEADING ON WMD
>
> In a stunning blow to the president's credibility, CIA Director George 
> Tenet
> said this morning that intelligence "analysts never said there was an
> imminent threat" from Iraq before the war. His comments are consistent 
> with
> various warnings sent to the White House from the intelligence 
> community
> that specifically told the president his claims that Iraq definitely 
> had
> chemical/biological and nuclear weapons were unsubstantiated. Tenet's
> comments call into question whether the Bush Administration was 
> knowingly
> ignoring intelligence and misleading the country by claiming 
> definitively
> that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was therefore an 
> "imminent,"
> "immediate," "urgent" and "mortal" threat to the American people.
>
> Though the White House has claimed it never said Iraq was an imminent
> threat, the record proves otherwise. When White House communications
> director Dan Bartlett was asked before the war whether Saddam Hussein 
> was an
> imminent threat, he responded, "Of course he is." When White House 
> spokesman
> Scott McClellan was asked why NATO (and thus the United States) should
> support Turkey's request for defensive troops, he responded, "This is 
> about
> an imminent threat." When White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was asked
> whether the invasion of Iraq was because Iraq was an imminent threat, 
> he
> responded, "Absolutely."
>
> The president also used other language aimed at misleading Americans 
> into
> thinking that U.S. intelligence definitively knew Iraq had weapons of 
> mass
> destruction that threatened America - even though the intelligence 
> community
> told the president it had no such evidence. The president said before 
> the
> war that Iraq was an "urgent threat" and a "grave threat" to "any 
> American."
> In his speech informing Americans that the invasion had started, the
> President said Iraq "threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder."
>
> These comments were echoed by other top Administration officials. 
> Secretary
> of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said on September 19, 2002 that "no 
> terrorist
> state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our 
> people
> and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in 
> Iraq."
> And Vice President Cheney called Iraq a "mortal threat," and said 
> "there is
> no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction...to 
> use
> against our friends, against our allies, and against us." And 
> Secretary of
> State Colin Powell, in pressing for U.N. support, said definitively 
> that
> Iraq possessed "deadly weapons programs" that "are real and present 
> dangers
> to the region and to the world."
>
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