Its not going away anytime soon folks. You can't go to war on false premises and expect to get away with it What this story describes and documents is a deliberate effort on the part of the Bush administration to concoct a propaganda campaign to mislead the public about Iraq's non-existent nuclear program:

Depiction of threat outgrew evidence

Ahead of war, U.S. stressed Iraqi nuclear threat even as evidence was undermined

By Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus
THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — His name was Joe, from the U.S. government. He carried 40 classified slides and a message from the Bush administration.

KEY QUOTES:

"The Vienna briefing was one among many private and public forums in which the Bush administration portrayed a menacing Iraqi nuclear threat, even as important features of its evidence were being undermined. "

"But the danger of a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein, more potent as an argument for war, began with weaker evidence and grew weaker still in the three months before war."

"The new information indicates a pattern in which President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their subordinates — in public and behind the scenes — made allegations depicting Iraq’s nuclear weapons program as more active, more certain and more imminent in its threat than the data they had would support."

"On occasion administration advocates withheld evidence that did not conform to their views."

"Bush and others often alleged that President Hussein held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, but did not disclose that the known work of the scientists was largely benign."

"By February, a month before the war, U.S. government specialists on the ground in Iraq had seen for themselves that there were no forbidden activities at the sites."

"Two senior policymakers, who supported the war, said in unauthorized interviews that the administration greatly overstated Iraq’s near-term nuclear potential."

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