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Center for Research on Globalization
November 10, 2017
Unlike the lead-up to the Iraq War, where journalists at the New York ... storyline that included references to aluminum tubes, Niger uranium, ...
Lewiston Sun Journal
October 29, 2017
... to acquire aluminum tubes that could be used for conventional rockets, ... On biological weapons (BW), there was a shift from saying that Iraq ...
Eurasia Review
October 21, 2017
... weapons labs, Niger uranium, aluminum tubes and “Curveball”. .... The difference between the fabrications that led up to the war in Iraq ...
Common Dreams
July 1, 2017
The notorious aluminum tubes story: Why were its sources not held ... of Iraq that cited anonymous administration officials claiming Iraq had ...
RealClearPolitics
April 11, 2017
I always think he is like Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Qaddafi in Libya: ... B. Gordon] who was pushing the aluminum tubes story in Iraq is now ...
Slate Magazine
December 12, 2016
... anonymous sources touted intelligence that was supposedly quite clear—when claims about aluminum tubes helped get us into the Iraq war.
The Atlantic
November 11, 2016
The Hussein regime had sought uranium from Niger. Iraq had obtained aluminum tubes to be used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
Vox
July 9, 2016
On CNN in September 2002, Condoleezza Rice claimed that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons ...
Mondoweiss
June 28, 2016
More on those wonderful aluminum tubes, discovered alongside Judith Miller, that became the neocon casus-belli for the Iraq war. Here is ...
The Intercept
February 18, 2016
The Bush administration said that aluminum tubes Iraq had tried to import were “only really suited for nuclear weapons programs” — even as ...
Salon
April 6, 2015
Take, as an example, the aluminum tubes Saddam Hussein purchased that George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin Powell ...
POLITICO Magazine
August 16, 2017
... military action—as bogus stories about aluminum tubes and mobile ... If there is a lesson from the lead-up to the Iraq invasion that shouldÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 10, 2017
... destined for Pyongyang of aluminum tubing matching specifications ... With the war in Iraq growing so unpopular, Rice had decided to doubleÃÂ ...
Citizens for Legitimate Government
August 8, 2017
... report states Iraq is six months from developing a nuclear weapon. ... tried to acquire aluminum tubes "specially designed" to enrich uranium.
Media Matters for America
July 27, 2017
Don't forget about Yellow Cake, Aluminum Tubes and weapons of MASS ... And that all the oil that Iraq would shower on us in appreciationÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
July 1, 2017
The notorious aluminum tubes story: Why were its sources not held ... of Iraq that cited anonymous administration officials claiming Iraq hadÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
December 12, 2016
... anonymous sources touted intelligence that was supposedly quite clear—when claims about aluminum tubes helped get us into the Iraq war.
The Atlantic
November 11, 2016
The Hussein regime had sought uranium from Niger. Iraq had obtained aluminum tubes to be used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
Mondoweiss
June 28, 2016
More on those wonderful aluminum tubes, discovered alongside Judith Miller, that became the neocon casus-belli for the Iraq war. Here isÃÂ ...
Metro Weekly
March 16, 2017
Intelligence, Jacqueline E. Lawton's gripping new political thriller now at Arena Stage, stakes its setting from the start with a blistering video summary of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Well-chosen ...
Consortium News
February 28, 2017
In 2002, when the George W. Bush administration was vouching for a motley crew of Iraqi "defectors" describing Saddam Hussein's hidden WMDs, Iraq's purchase of some "aluminum tubes" must have been for building nuclear bombs. In 2003, whenÃÂ ...
The Ring of Fire Network
February 26, 2017
Like with the Iraq war. They took the Bush Administration's word for it that Saddam Hussein had aluminum tubes and yellow-cake uranium and they went out and reported it.
Antiwar.com
February 12, 2017
After all, as Antiwar.com's longtime readers know, these are the very same people who were spreading the Bush administration's "talking points" as if they were facts in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. They know this because we spent years debunking ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 14, 2016
We're talking about an agency and a Executive Branch that between them are known to have lied (during the GW Bush years) about anthrax labs in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, lied about what were aluminum tubes imported to make irrigation equipment beingÃÂ ...
Eurasia Review
December 12, 2016
We're talking about an agency and a Executive Branch that between them are known to have lied (during the GW Bush years) about anthrax labs in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, lied about what were aluminum tubes imported to make irrigation equipment beingÃÂ ...
Daily Kos
December 12, 2016
As a top State Department official prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion, Bolton pushed the false claims that Iraq had obtained aluminum tubes and uranium for its supposed nuclear weapons program. He was also a supporter of a conspiracy theorist named LaurieÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 12, 2016
Whichever is true, he and administration spokesmen clearly asserted that Iraq was a) responsible for the 9/11 attacks, b) directly linked to al-Qaeda, c) trying to import aluminum tubes to develop nuclear weapons, d) hiding vast stocks of chemical andÃÂ ...
The Ring of Fire Network
December 8, 2016
When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld were trying to go to war with Iraq, who did they get to sell the idea that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling aluminum tubes and yellowcake? Remember those two little talking points, aluminum tubes andÃÂ ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
December 2, 2016
Specifically, the Senators were concerned that exports of aluminum tubes were used by Iraq to assist its missile program and that China may have used fiberglass from the United States to help Iraq rebuild its air defense system. The Senators also said ...
Consortium News
October 3, 2016
Special Report: The U.S. propaganda war against Russia is spinning out of control, rolling ever faster downhill with a dangerous momentum that threatens to drive the world into a nuclear showdown, reports Robert Parry.
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
September 20, 2016
I hear so much George Bush running up to and around the second Bush Iraq War. Remember that? We had had Iraqis under our beds!
Belleville News-Democrat
August 18, 2016
... Secretary of State under George W. Bush, in October 2003, gave false and misleading testimony to a joint session of Congress televised to the American people that Iraq had weapons of of mass destruction (WMD), yellow cake powder and aluminum tubesÃÂ ...
Janesville Gazette
August 9, 2016
It is even more horrendous that thousands died in Iraq after George Bush and Dick Cheney fabricated information about WMDs, a lie they sold to Congress and most Americans.
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
July 21, 2016
After seven years of investigation, a British commission led by Sir John Chilcot has issued findings on British participation in the Iraq War. The report, 2.6 million words in 12 volumes, concludes plans were "seriously flawed" and the war "went badly ...
Bucks County Courier Times
July 19, 2016
Power seeker Hillary Clinton has made every government job she's held a disaster. Her supporters should make an appointment with former presidential candidate Ben Carson, neurosurgeon.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
July 17, 2016
Second, after all of the false alarms over Nigerian yellowcake, drones, mobile germ labs, aluminum tubes, underground weapons laboratories, false links to 9/11, false links to Al-Qaida, false links to Amerithrax, false comparisons to the Cuban missile ...
Truth-Out
July 10, 2016
Iraq attempted to acquire aluminum tubes that were "only really suited for nuclear weapons development" (Condoleeza Rice).
Vox
July 9, 2016
On CNN in September 2002, Condoleezza Rice claimed that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs.
New York Times
July 6, 2016
LONDON - On July 28, 2002, roughly eight months before the American-led invasion of Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain sent President George W. Bush a personal note that alarmed some of Mr. Blair's top national security aides - and was ...
NK News
July 5, 2016
Namhung Trading Corporation is a known alias of Namchonngang Trading Corporation, which is a North Korean nuclear related company that, according to the U.S.
The National Interest Online
July 4, 2016
False links between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, false stories about "yellow cake" from Africa, false reports about vehicles and aluminum tubes, and fear mongering about mushroom clouds egged on the American public to invade Iraq.
Hollywood Reporter
May 6, 2016
They debunked the aluminum tubes for uranium centrifuges, the connection between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein, and all the weapons of mass destruction, but nobody paid any attention to them.
Washingtonian.com
May 3, 2016
Politico's Playbook reported Monday that Rob Reiner was in town recently to study up for Shock and Awe, a film he plans about some of the few journalists who reported skeptically about the run-up to the Iraq War. ... The New York Times, the Post, and ...
Washingtonian.com
May 3, 2016
Politico's Playbook reported Monday that Rob Reiner was in town recently to study up for Shock and Awe, a film he plans about some of the few journalists who reported skeptically about the run-up to the Iraq War. ... The New York Times, the Post, and ...
Media Matters for America (blog)
April 15, 2016
During the April 14 Democratic presidential debate, hosted by CNN, Hillary Clinton called out debate moderators for failing to ask the Democratic candidates a single question about abortion, a failing that has occurred in all nine debates.
The Intercept
February 18, 2016
The Bush administration said that aluminum tubes Iraq had tried to import were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs" - even as Bush himself was being told the State Department and Energy Department believed (correctly, of course) they wereÃÂ ...
Consortium News
January 26, 2016
Exclusive: In September 2002, as the Bush-43 administration was rolling out its ad campaign for invading Iraq because of alleged WMD, the Joint Chiefs of Staff received a briefing about the paucity of WMD evidence.
San Diego Metropolitan
December 30, 2015
The first artwork, titled "Tide," is an exterior sculpture comprised of a series of LED-illuminated waves created from powder-coated aluminum tubes and ceramic tile pavers. The tubes and pavers are arranged in a serpentine strand of sculptural waves ...
Newsweek
December 17, 2015
Other omissions: Yellowcake, aluminum tubes, mobile bioweapon labs, 9/11 attacker Atta's supposed meeting with Iraqi intelligence officials in Prague and intelligence conclusions cooked up in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans and foisted on ColinÃÂ ...
Media Matters for America
December 8, 2015
... Nation Building. Only another ginned up reason like bogus Aluminum Tubes or "Yellow Cake Uranium" will do to get the fearful minds going again.
