Bush Admin Caught Lying To Allies Again

[bevin]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st...50241_2005mar19

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In an effort to increase pressure on North Korea (news - web sites), the Bush administration told its Asian allies in briefings earlier this year that Pyongyang had exported nuclear material to Libya. That was a significant new charge, the first allegation that North Korea was helping to create a new nuclear weapons state.

But that is not what U.S. intelligence reported, according to two officials with detailed knowledge of the transaction. North Korea, according to the intelligence, had supplied uranium hexafluoride -- which can be enriched to weapons-grade uranium -- to Pakistan. It was Pakistan, a key U.S. ally with its own nuclear arsenal, that sold the material to Libya. [:"red"]The U.S. government had no evidence, the officials said, that North Korea knew of the second transaction.[/]

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The Bush administration's approach, intended to isolate North Korea, instead [:"red"]left allies increasingly doubtful as they began to learn that the briefings omitted essential details about the transaction[/], U.S. officials and foreign diplomats said in interviews. North Korea responded to public reports last month about the briefings by withdrawing from talks with its neighbors and the United States.

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"The administration is giving Pakistan a free ride when they don't deserve it and hurting U.S. interests at the same time," said Charles L. Pritchard, who was the Bush administration's special envoy for the North Korea talks until August 2003.

[:"red"]"As our allies get the full picture, it doesn't help our credibility with them," he said.[/]

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Which part about "THOU SHALT NOT BEAR A FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR" does George W Bush not understand?

/Bevin

[Dr. Shane]

I don't know the details of the inner-workings of the White House but there are certin lies that need to be told to protect America. Are you one that believes the two spies that went into Jericho were wrong to have Rehab lie for them? If you were a German in Nazi Germany and were protecting Jews, would you have told the truth if Nazi soldiers asked you if you were hiding Jews?