Looking for intentional deceptions by Bush in run-up to war

[NewJeffCT]

This editorial in today's Hartford (CT) Courant seems to be a summary of Republican talking points.

So, I'd like to find some summaries of the intentional deceptions with fact-based sources (i.e., not Capitol Hill Blue)

I have this from Jason Leopold at Truthout...but, I'd like other sources & items.

In building their case against the administration, Levin, with the help of Congressman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has obtained the December 2002 letter sent to the White House and the National Security Council by Mohammed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warning that the Niger claims were bogus and should not be cited by the administration as evidence that Iraq was actively trying to obtain WMDs.

Waxman had written ElBaradei in March 2003, inquiring about the Niger documents and the allegations that Iraq tried to purchase uranium there in order to determine if the Bush administration manipulated the intelligence it had relied upon. Waxman received a three-page response from ElBaradei on June 20, 2003, around the same time that Joseph Wilson had started to publicly question the Bush administration's rationale for war and around the same time White House officials had disclosed his wife's CIA status to a handful of reporters. Baradei's response letter lays out in full detail the play-by-play in his attempt to get to the bottom of the Niger uranium story.

ElBaradei said, when the Niger claims were included in the State Department fact sheet on the Iraqi threat in December 2002, "the IAEA asked the U.S. Government, through its Mission in Vienna, to provide any actionable information that would allow it to follow up with the countries involved, viz Niger and Iraq." ElBaradei said he was assured that his letter was forwarded to the White House and to the National Security Council. ElBaradei added that he and his staff were suspicious about the Niger documents because it had long been rumored that documents pertaining to Iraq's attempt to obtain uranium from Niger had been doctored.

The evidence that Iraq sought to purchase uranium from an African country was first revealed by the British government on September 24, 2002, when Prime Minister Tony Blair released a 50-page report on Iraqi efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. This report ultimately became a significant part of the US case against Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111705I.shtml

[NewJeffCT]

1. oops- here is the editorial I'd like to respond to...

Accusing President Bush of misleading the American people on Iraq is not exactly treasonous in the context of vigorous political discourse over a highly controversial war. Yet to Vice President Cheney, those who are saying Mr. Bush misrepresented intelligence on Saddam Hussein's unfound weapons of mass destruction are engaging in "one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired" in Washington.
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But did Mr. Bush believe before the war that there were no such weapons? Did intelligence agencies brief him accurately? Did they assert that the evidence was irrefutable? Did Mr. Bush probe his briefers or merely listen? Did he fudge the evidence?

Those questions have yet to be fully answered. But they will be eventually.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are right on one point. Many of the Democrats accusing them are being hypocritical because those accusers, too, supported toppling the Baathist regime by force. Their claims that their support for the war was based on what the administration told them on WMDs is disingenuous. Congressional committees have ways to ascertain the facts before voting to support the invasion of another country.
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http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-lies.artnov20,0,4072885.story?coll=hc-headlines-editorials

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3. lunchtime kick

thanks

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4. Monday kick

Looking for some help.

Thanks

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2. kick

no response yet.