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Thread #106771   Message #2217832
Posted By: Teribus
18-Dec-07 - 01:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
Subject: RE: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
From Bobert:
"I have been accused of fabricating (lieing) about what has been reported about whn Bush knew and if Bush knew before his Oct. 13th "WW III" speech or his Oct. 23 "Iran is pursuing" speech...

So, from Peter Baker and Robin Wright's Dec. 4, 2007 article in the Washington Post entitled "A Blow to Bush's Tehran Policy, and I quote:

"President Bush got the world's attention this fall when he warned that a nuclear-armed Iran might lead to World War III. But his stark warning came at least a month or two after he had first been told about fresh indications that Iran had actually halted it nuclear weapons program."

Now you see that is the trouble with believing everything that you read in newspapers. Well Bobert it is normally best to go directly to source material to get what has actually been said by whom and when.

Lets go back and take a look at who started accusing people of lying, second post on this thread:

Subject: RE: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
From: Bobert - PM
Date: 04 Dec 07 - 05:39 PM

Yeah, I mentioned something about this on the Maliki thread, Dick...

Seems that Bush was told that Iran had curtailed its nuclear program in 2003 *before* he made the speech about Iran and World War III!!!

The boy just can't stop telling lies...

B

Who can't stop telling lies Bobert? You took some inaccurate and shoddy example of journalism and immediately, because of your bias and prejudice, jumped to entirely the wrong conclusion.

Subject: RE: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
From: Teribus - PM
Date: 04 Dec 07 - 06:09 PM

He did not "lie" as you put it. When asked specifically about that he said that last August all he been told by his Intelligence Agencies was that there was new information under evaluation. He was not told that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons programme.

Now that came from listening to the source. It can be independently verified as to who was told what and when, and that is what has been pointed out throughout this thread by BB and myself.