Why Not Just Make Some Shit Up?
	found on The Washington Post written by curve06, edited by Peter (Plastic) [ read unedited ] posted Sun 9 Mar 4:16am
		The director general of the IAEA called into question the authenticity of some of the "evidence" of Iraq's nuclear weapons program provided to them by US and British intelligence. Knowledgeable sources familiar with the forgery investigation described the faked evidence as a series of letters between Iraqi agents and officials in the central African nation of Niger. The documents had been given to the U.N. inspectors by Britain and reviewed extensively by U.S. intelligence.

	The forgeries were apparently poorly done, with simple things like positions and names were used on incorrect dates. The IAEA is quick to qualify that they do not blame the US or Britian for creating these forgeries. However, given this administrations previous use of loose facts and half-truths, is it possible they knew the documents were forgeries but figured the IAEA would not know the difference? Can you trust any of the supposed secretly held intelligence that proves the Iraqi-WMD link? Possibly, if Hans Blix's report of Iraq drone planes of undeclared capacities are true. These remote power vehicles could be used for biological or chemical weapons, and are "restricted by the same UN rules as missles": 150 km. Colin Powell has previously informed the UN Security Council that he had evidence "Iraq had test-flown a drone in a race-track pattern for 500km non-stop". The US government are outraged at Blix for not mentioning it in his oral presentation to the Security Council. They have questioned his objectivity, and accused him of attempting to bury the information "in a 173-page single-spaced report distributed later" that day.

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1.  Are things this slow on Plastic?   by MAYORBOB       at Sun 9 Mar 4:57am score of 1.5 brilliant     Do we have to run the same piece twice in a row? Tending to final details.   [ ...reply just to this | comment on the story... | next new ]

5.  Anybody got a wooden stake?   by MAYORBOB       at Sun 9 Mar 1:05pm score of 1   in reply to comment 1     Holy water? Silver bullets? Anything to kill this undead thread. Tending to final details.   [ ...reply just to this | comment on the story... | next new ]

2.  if you accidentally reply here   by GodSpiral       at Sun 9 Mar 5:25am score of 1.5     copy it to the other thread... as probably this one will get deleted soon. All Calculating American Satanists are Evangelical Christians   [ ...reply just to this | comment on the story... | next new ]

3.  This one's just fine.   by gparizot       at Sun 9 Mar 7:00am score of 1.5 compelling     I'd rather reply here, as there are currently fewer comments, and my stellar wit won't get lost among the detritus. But I don't have anything to say. "Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there" - Radiohead   [ ...reply just to this | comment on the story... | next new ]

4.  The Wehrmacht had no choice   by strumbucket       at Sun 9 Mar 12:18pm score of 1     but to return fire from the Polish Calvary... got bodybags?   [ ...reply just to this | comment on the story... | next new ]