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Tag Archives: Iraq
Uranium in Iraq
Q: Was it recently revealed that the U.S. found uranium in Iraq after the invasion in 2003? A: No. Uranium recently shipped from Iraq to Canada was left over from Saddam Hussein’s defunct nuclear weapons program and had been in sealed containers, under guard, since the end of the first …
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Tagged Iraq, Iraq war, nuclear weapons, Saddam Hussein, uranium
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U.S. Government Paying Former Insurgents?
Q: Is the U.S. government paying factions in Iraq not to fight us? A: We are paying Iraqis, some of whom were formerly hostile insurgents, to police areas and fight terrorists.
DNC vs. McCain
Summary The Democratic National Committee has produced two TV ads against McCain, hoping to soften him up while the party figures out who its own presidential nominee will be. One ad shows selected portions of McCain’s comments that a 100-year U.S. presence in Iraq would be "fine with me." The …
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Tagged DNC, gasoline prices, Iraq, jobs, John McCain, Presidential Election 2008
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No WMDs in Iraq
Q: Were there really weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the U.S. invaded in 2003? A: No. The Iraq Survey Group determined that Iraq had abandoned its quest to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and that it had already destroyed all of its existing stockpiles of chemical and …
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Smear or Be Smeared?
Summary The Democratic National Committee proposes to spend unlimited amounts of money to "tell the real story" about John McCain before Republicans can "start smearing" the eventual Democratic nominee. But the line of attack the Democrats outline to their potential donors in an e-mail contains some claims that are false …
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Tagged Democratic National Committee, DNC, Iraq, jack abramoff, John McCain
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U.S. Intelligence on WMDs in Iraq
Q: What was known to U.S. intelligence and Congress about WMDs in Iraq before the vote to go to war? A: Senior U.S. intelligence officials believed, incorrectly, that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and germ weapons and was developing nuclear weapons. They also agreed Saddam Hussein wouldn’t give such weapons …
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The Whoppers of 2007
Summary The year 2007 wasn’t a good one for political honesty. Though not even technically an election year, it provided a bumper crop of falsehoods and distortions nonetheless. Presidential candidates kept us busy: Republican Rudy Giuliani made false claims over and over about his record as mayor of New York, …
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Tagged adoption, crime, energy, FairTax, immigration, Iraq, medicare, methamphetamine, National Guard, Tax Cuts, whoppers
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