Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Lied to the American People in order to sell the Iraq War.
"Isn't it true that you had intelligence that cast doubt on your repeated claims that Iraq did have WMD." - Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) questioning Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. See videos of Rice lying.
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Condoleezza Rice: Liar, Secretary of State, War Criminal pt3
Condoleezza Rice: Liar, Secretary of State, War Criminal pt2
Condoleezza Rice: Liar, Secretary of State, War Criminal pt1
Condoleezza Rice, then President Bush's national security adviser, lied when she was on CNN on Sept. 8, 2002. She claimed aluminum tubes were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs." "But almost a year before, Ms. Rice's staff had been told that the government's foremost nuclear experts seriously doubted that the tubes were for nuclear weapons, according to four officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and two senior administration officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. The experts, at the Energy Department, believed the tubes were likely intended for small artillery rockets." - NYT October 3, 2004
"Dr. Rice’s statements in 2002 were not only wrong; they also did not accurately reflect the intelligence reports of the time. Declassified portions of the CIA’s National Intelligence Estimate from October 2002 make it abundantly clear that there were disagreements among our intelligence analysts about the state of Iraq’s nuclear program. But Dr. Rice seriously misrepresented their disputes when she categorically stated, "We do know that Saddam is actively pursuing a nuclear weapon." Her allegation also misrepresented to the American people the controversy in those same intelligence reports about the aluminum tubes. Again, Dr. Rice said that these tubes were really only suited for nuclear weapons programs. But intelligence experts at the State Department and the Department of Energy believed that those tubes had nothing to do with building a nuclear weapon, and they made their dissent known in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate." - Sen. Byrd
"During my questioning, Secretary Rice falsely stated that she never saw intelligence casting doubt on the Bush Administration claims that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. This unbelievable statement is flatly contradicted by numerous government reports and CIA testimonials." - Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL)