Tom Oliphant points out another damnable lie

[democrat in Tallahassee]

This one is important. Spread it around:



To look inside the minds of the Bush administration, it is more revealing to look at two similar assertions that don't get as much attention - about the infamous aluminum tubes and what had at one time been an Iraqi nuclear facility.

Last October, President Bush flatly asserted that satellite photos showed that Iraq was ''rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past.''

The reference was to the Al Furut facility, which had been bombed during the Gulf War in 1991. At the time Bush made that statement there was no evidence to support its implication beyond the reconstruction of the building; if there had been, you can bet Bush would have disclosed it. If Congress would put away its rubber stamps and actually investigate, it would find that the statement had no basis in hard intelligence information.

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/196/oped/The_dirty_route_to_war+.shtml

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Tom was on a roll

but then he blew it with these last two paragraphs.

There was a sound case to be made, the one I and most others still support - that rogue nations with Iraq's record and continuing defiance of requirements that it account for tons of lethal material must be confronted in the post-9/11 world and that bringing the issue to a violent head was justified. There was no objective case, however, for an imminent threat that required nearly unilateral action if that meant a nearly unilateral aftermath.

But Bush took the easy way short-term, hyped the threat, and now reaps the result - $4 billion a month indefinitely, and far too many dead Americans.

You don't go to war because of material accounting discrepancies, Tom. You need much, much more than that.

[phoebe]

2. I thought "we" sold him the stuff - surely we have receipts of our own?

n/t