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Past Actions: Censure the President!!
The President made claims he knew - or should have known - were false.
What He Said:
“Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraqi regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.”
President Bush, March 17, 2003 (from official White House transcript)
What He Knew:
“We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq used the period since 1998 to reconstitute its Weapons of Mass Destruction programs.”
CIA Report, February 2003
What He Said:
On October 7, 2002 – "Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas." On February 6th, 2003 – "Iraq has developed spray devices that could be used on unmanned aerial vehicles. A UAV launched from a vessel off the American coast could reach hundreds of miles inland."
President Bush, October 7, 2002 and February 6, 2003
What He Knew:
“The government organization most knowledgeable about the United States' UAV program -- the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center -- had sharply disputed the notion that Iraq's UAVs were being designed as attack weapons" in an October 2002 intelligence report given to the White House.”
Washington Post, September 26
What He Said:
“Our intelligence sources tell us that he (Saddam) has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.”
President Bush, State of the Union Address, January 2003
What He Knew:
“INR (US State Dept Bureau of Intelligence and Research) is not persuaded that the tubes in question are intended for use as centrifuge rotors…the tubes are not intended for use in Iraq's nuclear weapon program.”
National Intelligence Estimate, October 2002
What He Said:
“The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program … The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
President Bush, State of the Union Address, January 2003
What He Knew:
“The CIA sent two memos to the White House in October voicing strong doubts about a claim President Bush made three months later in the State of the Union address that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear materials in Africa.”
Washington Post, July 23, 2003
What He Said:
“In 1995 … the head of Iraq’s military industries [Hussein Kamal] defected. It was then that the regime was forced to admit that it had produced more than 30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents.”
President Bush, October 7, 2003
What He Knew:
The transcript of Kamel’s 1995 debriefing by the inspectors and the IAEA indicates he said the opposite. After the Gulf War, he told the UN, “Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them.”
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