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murder, but not so massive
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
From here
"The Senate Committee asked Wilson how he could have come to such grandiose conclusions without any information:
On at least two occasions [Wilson] admitted that he had no direct knowledge to support some of his claims and that he was drawing on either unrelated past experiences or no information at all.
For example, when asked how he "knew" that the Intelligence Community had rejected the possibility of a Niger-Iraq uranium deal, as he wrote in his book, he told Committee staff that his assertion may have involved "a little literary flair."
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There's plenty more in that article.
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Wait a second. Saying something based on unrelated past experiences or without any information at all is a lie, but Bush wasn't lying when he said Iraq had WMD? I guess you're falling back on the notion that Wilson is smarter than Bush, huh?
- On Friday, September 6, Franks and Rumsfeld briefed the president and the NSC on the latest war planning. . . . General Franks had something important to add. "Mr. President," he said, "we've been looking for Scud missiles and other weapons of mass destruction for ten years and haven't found any yet, so I can't tell you that I know that there are any specific weapons anywhere. I haven't seen Scud one."
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- [On Saturday, September 7,] Blair and Bush took questions from reporters. They said they were committed to ending Saddam's threat one and for all. How or when went unanswered. Bush asserted unequivocally, "Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction."
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