See other War, War, War Articles
Title: Rice heatedly defends her integrity on Iraq claims
Source:
[None]
URL Source: http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=44861
Published: Feb 14, 2008
Author: Arshad Mohammed
Post Date: 2008-02-14 18:10:05 by angle
Keywords: None
Views: 156
Comments: 12
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice vehemently defended her integrity Wednesday when asked about an independent report that found she made 56 false statements on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. At a congressional hearing, Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat, questioned Rice about a report from the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity that accuses Bush administration officials of making 935 false statements about Iraq, which the United States invaded in March 2003. "This study has found that you, Madame Secretary, made 56 false statements to the American people where you repeatedly pump up the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and exaggerate the so-called relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," he said at the start of a testy exchange with Rice. "Congressman, I take my integrity very seriously and I did not at any time make a statement that I knew to be false, or that I thought to be false, in order to pump up anything," Rice replied. "Nobody wants to go to war." Bush's statements about suspected Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were the cornerstone of his case for going to war in Iraq to topple Saddam. No such weapons were found following the invasion. The United States now has 157,000 troops in Iraq seeking to restore stability to the country, where a vicious insurgency and sectarian violence erupted after the U.S.-led invasion. Rice, who was national security adviser at the time of the invasion, squarely blamed the U.S. intelligence community for its erroneous conclusions that Iraq had biological and chemical weapons and was seeking to rebuild a nuclear weapons program. When Wexler sought to cut her off, Rice spoke over him and said: "I am sorry congressman -- because you questioned my integrity, I ask you to let me respond. "Now, we have learned that many of the intelligence assessments were wrong," she added. "I will be the first to say that it was not right." "At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people," she said. The reputations of many Bush aides -- including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who made the case for the war before the U.N. Security Council -- have been tarnished by the fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found. (Editing by Eric Beech)
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: angle (#0)
The first what?
Rice defending her alleged integrity is akin to a hooker defending her virginity. May have had it at one time but it has been a long time.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Uhhh, well, uh, gee, uhhh. I have to agree. You made your case. LOL
The first Whore. Notice that Whore is capitalized, as we would not want to infer that she is any 2-bit whore; she is one of the gold plated ones.
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.
Integrity???? What a liar.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" I have to agree. You made your case. LOL Thank you very much. I don't think that woman has as many people fooled as she thinks she does.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. She still believes what have been proven to be false statements? Wow.
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
Hey, Wexler ! You might want to jot down false statement #57 on your tally sheet.....
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick
She and the crowd she rode in with.
We demand our United States Constitution be restored.
cheney, blackwater, halliburton et al maybe she's not inner circle. nah, she's just lying about lying. the tangled web thing
In a statement just released by his office, Wexler says she "falsely testified" in response to his questions... Secretary Rice Falsely Testified She Never Saw Intelligence Disputing Administration Claims that Iraq Possessed WMDs (Washington, DC) Today, in reponse to questioning by Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) , Chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe and a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice falsely claimed she never saw intelligence casting doubt on Administration claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of destruction. Numerous sources including the 2006 Senate Intelligence Report, a January 2004 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report, as well as former CIA agents including Tyler Drumheller have pointed out that there was contrary intelligence to the information provided to the Bush Administration in the lead up to the Iraq war.
We demand our United States Constitution be restored.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
I will be the first to say that it was not right.
#2. To: angle (#0)
Rice heatedly defends her integrity on Iraq claims
Lord Acton
#3. To: James Deffenbach (#2)
Rice defending her alleged integrity is akin to a hooker defending her virginity. May have had it at one time but it has been a long time.
#4. To: nobody (#1)
The first what?
#5. To: angle (#0)
Rice replied. "Nobody wants to go to war."
#6. To: Cynicom (#3)
Uhhh, well, uh, gee, uhhh.
Lord Acton
#7. To: angle (#0)
"At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people," - Condoleezza Rice
#8. To: angle (#0)
Rice replied. "Nobody wants to go to war."
#9. To: tom007 (#5)
What a liar.
#10. To: angle (#0)
"Nobody wants to go to war."
#11. To: kiki, bub, tom007 (#10)
#12. To: angle (#0)
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest