3/18 article saying they were told documents were faked.

[madfloridian]

This was originally from the WP, but can't find it except in my own files. This article is verbatim from it....Milbanks.
http://pub88.ezboard.com/facryforpeacefrm2.showPrevMessage?topicID=56.topic

SNIP..."As the Bush administration prepares to attack Iraq this week, it is doing so on the basis of a number of allegations against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that have been challenged — and in some cases disproved — by the United Nations, European governments and even U.S. intelligence reports.


FOR MONTHS, President Bush and his top lieutenants have produced a long list of Iraqi offenses, culminating Sunday with Vice President Cheney’s assertion that Iraq has “reconstituted nuclear weapons.” Previously, administration officials have tied Hussein to al Qaeda, to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and to an aggressive production of biological and chemical weapons. Bush reiterated many of these charges in his address to the nation last night.
But these assertions are hotly disputed. Some of the administration’s evidence — such as Bush’s assertion that Iraq sought to purchase uranium — has been refuted by subsequent discoveries. Other claims have been questioned, though their validity can be known only after U.S. forces occupy Iraq......"

SNIP...."Earlier this month, ElBaradei said information about Iraqi efforts to buy uranium were based on fabricated documents. Further investigation has found that top CIA officials had significant doubts about the veracity of the evidence, linking Iraq to efforts to purchase uranium for nuclear weapons from Niger, but the information ended up as fact in Bush’s State of the Union address.
In another embarrassing episode for the administration, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell cited evidence about Iraq’s weapons efforts that originally appeared in a British intelligence document. But it later emerged that the British report’s evidence was based in part on academic papers and trade publications....."

From March 18th

[Ohio Dem]

1. Hey, if this lie that they told doesn't do it,

I don't know what will.

[Trajan]

2. This is Walter Pincus with Dana Milbank

Try searching under the Pincus name ..... it came out in mid march ....

Hah ... found it .. and more ..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A42517-2003Mar17¬Found=true

and : ..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A30601-2003Mar15¬Found=true

Pincus is my hero ... and he should be yours ....

[madfloridian]

3. Thanks, that is the one.

I had not seen the second by Pincus, but I just saved it to my hard drive.
:hi: