Still lying about those aluminum tubes

Oct. 3, 2004: National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said yesterday it is still unclear whether Iraq attempted to procure tens of thousands of aluminum tubes for a nuclear weapons program or a conventional rocket program, despite conclusions by the Senate intelligence committee and U.N. investigators that the tubes could not be used in any nuclear program.

"As I understand it, people are still debating this," Rice said on ABC's "This Week" program. "And I'm sure they will continue to debate it."

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Who? The wingnut bloggers? Bullshit. And she knows it. This administration is rotten to the core. A pack of liars and pirates. Liar pirates. Or pirate liars.

In July, a bipartisan report by the Senate intelligence committee, which reviewed all of the intelligence on the tubes, said that information available to intelligence analysts "indicated that these tubes were intended to be used for an Iraqi conventional rocket program and not a nuclear program." The report also said that assertions that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program were "not supported by the intelligence."

...[A]s reported by The Washington Post more than a year ago, the internal debate among intelligence analysts was intense, with the experts at the Department of Energy who specialize in uranium enrichment adamant that the tubes were not suitable for a nuclear program. They argued that instead the tubes were intended for Iraqi rockets.

There's your debate Miss Thang. In the past. And the experts in uranium enrichment really probably know more about it than you and those other clowns you sing hymns with at Camp David. Debate, my ass. I can see it....

EVIL LYING PIRATE ADMINISTRATION: Mushroom cloud! Mushroom cloud! Take it to the UN! Mushroom cloud!

URANIUM ENRICHMENT EXPERT: These tubes simply won't work for nukes.

EVIL LYING PIRATE ADMINISTRATION: Shut yer piehole if you want to keep your kneecaps where they are. Mushroom cloud!

Administration officials at the time did not acknowledge that debate, though Rice acknowledged yesterday she was aware of it. "I knew that there was a dispute," she said. "I actually didn't really know the nature of the dispute."

Did she care? This woman is supposed to be the country's National Security Adviser. What a fucking joke. But it's not funny. I'm beginning to believe those stories that she's Dumbfuck's girlfriend. Because she sure doesn't seem to be doing anything in the way of national security.

David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security who has written extensively on the tubes, said that Rice "was grasping at straws" to suggest there was still a debate on the issue. He said there was little dispute within the intelligence community now, with the "overwhelming number of experts and the evidence" concluding the Energy Department analysis was correct.

"I think she is being disingenuous, and just departing from any effort to find the truth," Albright added.

You think?

...but hey, do what you want, Miss Thang...you will anyway.