Representative Henry Waxman’s staff has put together Iraq On The Record, a collection of the Bush Administration’s false or misleading statements about Iraq.
Statement by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
“[H]e had . . . an active procurement network to procure items, many of which, by the way, were on the prohibited list of the nuclear suppliers group. There’s a reason that they were on the prohibited list of the nuclear supplies group: Magnets, balancing machines, yes, aluminum tubes, about which the consensus view was that they were suitable for use in centrifuges to spin material for nuclear weapons.”
Source: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS (7/30/2003).
Explanation: This statement was misleading because it suggested that Iraq sought aluminum tubes for use in its nuclear weapons program, failing to mention that the government
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