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Iraq on the Record

Representative Henry Waxman's staff has put together Iraq On The Record, a collection of the Bush Administration's false or misleading statements about Iraq.

Statement by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice

"[H]e had . . . an active procurement network to procure items, many of which, by the way, were on the prohibited list of the nuclear suppliers group. There's a reason that they were on the prohibited list of the nuclear supplies group: Magnets, balancing machines, yes, aluminum tubes, about which the consensus view was that they were suitable for use in centrifuges to spin material for nuclear weapons."

Source: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS (7/30/2003).

Explanation: This statement was misleading because it suggested that Iraq sought aluminum tubes for use in its nuclear weapons program, failing to mention that the government’s most experienced technical experts at the U.S. Department of Energy concluded that the tubes were "poorly suited" for this purpose.

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