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Titolo: [WMD] Democrats close US Senate doors in Iraq protest (Reuters)

Il gioco si fa duro sulla balla delle WMD...
Am.
Democrats close US Senate doors in Iraq protest
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats forced the Senate into a rare closed 
session on Tuesday to protest what they decried as the Republican-led 
body's inattention to intelligence failures on Iraq and the leak of a 
CIA operative's identity.
 Invoking a little used rule, Democrats temporarily shut down 
television cameras in the chamber, cleared galleries of reporters, 
tourists and other onlookers, forced
ADVERTISEMENT removal of staff members and recording devices and 
stopped work on legislation.
 "At its core, this is about accountability -- congressional 
accountability and White House accountability," said Sen. John 
Rockefeller of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate 
Intelligence Committee.
 Democrats were pressing that committee to produce a report on whether 
the Bush administration misused intelligence on Iraq's weapons to 
justify the March 2003 invasion. No weapons of mass destruction were 
found.
 Democrats said that report was a year overdue and vowed to close more 
sessions to pressure Republicans to produce it. "We're serving notice 
on them at this moment. Be prepared for this motion every day until you 
face the reality," said Senate Democratic Whip Richard Durbin of 
Illinois.
 Republicans were outraged.
 "The United States Senate has been hijacked by the Democratic 
leadership," Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee said. "Never have 
I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of 
this grand institution."
 Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said the indictment of Lewis 
Libby, who was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, "provides a 
window into what this is really about: how the administration 
manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in 
Iraq and attempted to destroy those who dared to challenge its actions."
 Libby was indicted on Friday for obstructing justice, perjury and 
lying after a probe into the public identification of a CIA operative 
whose diplomat husband was a critic of the Bush administration's case 
for the war in Iraq..
 Sen. Christopher Bond, a Missouri Republican on the Intelligence 
Committee, said the panel was working on the Iraq weapons report and 
accused Democrats of exploiting Libby's indictment "to say that the war 
was based on politicised intelligence."

 Il gioco si fa duro sulla balla delle WMD...
Certo, certo... :)
*pat pat*
*LOL*
-Stefano

 
Come no ? LOL :)
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DonJuan

 
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Ma sai leggere?
"Le  parole di Saadi *fanno riferimento al '91*, quando l'Aiea, conclusa la
Guerra del Golfo, intervenne per smantellare la centrale atomica di
Tuwaitha, sede del reattore Osirak, bombardato e distrutto dai jet
israeliani in un blitz del 1981, quando Tel Aviv disse di avere le prove
che il regime lavorava alla bomba atomica. Già due volte, dopo il loro
ritorno in Iraq, gli ispettori hanno visitato Tuwaitha. Nel '95 l'agenzia
rivelò che l'Iraq era pronto a utilizzare combustibile atomico a uso civile
per sviluppare un ordigno nucleare e che solo i bombardamenti del '91
fermarono il programma. Nel 1998 l'Aiea disse che dei piani per la
costruzione di bombe atomiche restava ben poco.