Bush campaign on defensive amid new questions on prewar Iraq intelligence

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"Well you know it's hard....it's really hard work,"G DUHbya

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Already scrambling to make up ground lost after last week's debate, US President George W. Bush's campaign was forced further on the defensive by a report that the White House knew before invading Iraq that key intelligence on the country's alleged nuclear weapons program was questionable.

National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday she knew of a debate within the US government about the purpose of aluminum tubes found in Iraq, which she and other officials had brandished before the war as proof of Saddam Hussein's nuclear ambitions.


In a series of television interviews Sunday, Rice insisted however that she only later learned that the Energy Department believed the aluminum tubes were actually meant for conventional weapons, denying a report in The New York Times that she knew of those concerns before using the tubes to argue for war.


"At that time we understood there were some debates within the intelligence community. I later learned that the Energy Department believed that these tubes might be for something else," she told NBC television's "Today Show."

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1. a rush to judgement for a rush to war is no excuse n/t

[speedoo]

2. Lying whore.

With blood on her hands.

[kentuck]

3. They all knew and continued to lie.

Every single one of them.