More Proof The White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs

In 2002, at a crucial juncture on the path to war, senior members of the Bush administration gave a series of speeches and interviews in which they asserted that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear weapons program. Speaking to a group of Wyoming Republicans in September, Vice President Dick Cheney said the United States now had "irrefutable evidence" - thousands of tubes made of high-strength aluminum, tubes that the Bush administration said were destined for clandestine Iraqi uranium centrifuges, before some were seized at the behest of the United States.

Those tubes became a critical exhibit in the administration's brief against Iraq. As the only physical evidence the United States could brandish of Mr. Hussein's revived nuclear ambitions, they gave credibility to the apocalyptic imagery invoked by President Bush and his advisers. The tubes were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, explained on CNN on Sept. 8, 2002. "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

But almost a year before, Ms. Rice's staff had been told that the government's foremost nuclear experts seriously doubted that the tubes were for nuclear weapons, according to four officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and two senior administration officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. The experts, at the Energy Department, believed the tubes were likely intended for small artillery rockets.

The White House, though, embraced the disputed theory that the tubes were for nuclear centrifuges, an idea first championed in April 2001 by a junior analyst at the C.I.A. Senior nuclear scientists considered that notion implausible, yet in the months after 9/11, as the administration built a case for confronting Iraq, the centrifuge theory gained currency as it rose to the top of the government.
New York Times

And yet there are still people who believe the White House was just fooled by faulty intelligence, and not the one's doing the fooling. The White House definitely had an agenda, unfortunately, it wasn't the interest of the American people.

b/c of information i have been told. Iraq was in violation of nuclear weapons development in connection w/ Libya.
The 2 tons of nuclear fissure material removed from Iraq in early June will match the atomic signature of samples from Libya. It is a process that is much like fingerprinting, it is hard to disprove once a match is made.

This is where i feel the OLD GRAY LADY gets the story wrong.

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Iraq was invaded because of OIL. The whitehouse is a gang of OIL DEAD-ENDERS. They think the world will end when we run out of OIL. They are blind to any other possibility.

The ONLY ministry guarded at the fall of Bagdahd was the OIL MINISTRY. Not the Weapons/defense ministry.

You do the math.
WMDs?
It doesn't add up.
Period.
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I can assure you... Oil was not the reason for this War...
If indeed it were, we would have taken control of Kuwait in the name of Security. Perhaps the reason The Oil Ministry was protected was b/c Saddam penchant for sabatoging the pipelines.