Originally Posted by Tom_PM

All the talk was about yellow cake uranium and aluminum tubes they wanted us to think were going to be used to enrich uranium. Rice KNEW at the time from her own teams report that those tubes were not suited for that task and were actually going to be used to make mortar shells, yet she went on live TV with the administrations BS line about fear of mushroom clouds and WMD's. She was confronted on live TV about it years later and stuttered her way through an answer that amounted to "I stand by what I said at the time".

You must remember that at the time the Nigerian yellow cake uranium story and the aluminum tube story were the ONLY things that had ANY traction towards justifying the war and they were debunked.


There was no covering up of finding these old WMD's. Stories came out regularly about finding old stockpiles of weapons and there was always a BUT because these are not the WMD's we're looking for.