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Insert - Full
and final confirmation from the horse's mouth of TVOTW assertions from
day 1. Every single thing that comes from Bush's mouth is lies.
Every part of the invasion of Iraq was illegal, criminal, uncalled for
and unjustified from any viewpoint. The United States is legally liable
for every death - every wounding and injury - every incidence of damage,
destruction or loss to real and personal property anywhere in Iraq - prior
to - as well as after 20 March 2003.
Also
- Saddam
- Full Confirmation By Clinton - At No Time Was Iraq A Direct Or Indirect
Threat To The US - 218 kb/sec - 18 Jul 2004.]
FROM:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3391239.stm
13 Jan 2004
US
Treasury to probe O'Neill book
The US Treasury Department
has called for an investigation into whether its former head leaked
secret documents in a new book.
Former Treasury Secretary
Paul O'Neill appeared on a US news programme to promote the book in
which documents marked "secret" were shown.
A Treasury department
spokesman said it had asked its inspector general to see if disclosure
laws were violated.
Mr O'Neill was sacked
from the US Government in December 2002.
BBC Washington correspondent
Justin Webb says that despite a statemanslike response from President
George W Bush, the reaction behind the scenes has been vitriolic.
Our correspondent says
that the episode is a reminder that not all senior Republicans think
Mr Bush has made the right choices at home or abroad.
Bush response
Responding to Mr O'Neill's
comments - which come a week before Mr Bush is due to make his annual
State of the Union address - the US president said that, as with previous
US administrations, he had been for regime change in Iraq.
However, he suggested,
the task had only become urgent after the terror attacks on America
in September 2001.
Mr O'Neill made the statements
in an interview with the CBS "60 Minutes" news programme on
Sunday.
He has contributed to
a book on the Bush administration called The Price of Loyalty by journalist
Ron Suskind, for which the former secretary provided thousands of documents
for research purposes.
Treasury Department spokesman
Rob Nichols said that, although it was customary for officials to take
documents when they left office, a document marked as secret was shown
on the programme.
He said the proposed
probe would focus on how possibly classified information appeared on
television and the inspector general could then "take appropriate
steps, if necessary", he was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.
Mr O'Neill accused Mr
Bush of planning for an invasion of Iraq within days of coming to office,
saying the US president was looking for an excuse to oust Saddam Hussein.
He added that, as a member
of the US president's national security team, he never saw any evidence
of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
"In
the 23 months I was there, I never saw anything that I would characterize
as evidence of weapons of mass destruction." - Paul
O'Neill.
'Backstabbing'
claim
Mr O'Neill also gave
an unflattering account of Mr Bush's leadership style in the interview,
saying that at cabinet meetings the president was like a blind man in
a room full of deaf people.
Mr O'Neill was sacked
from the US Government after nearly two years in his position over differences
with the Bush administration.
But the current Commerce
Secretary, Don Evans, told CNN that the president liked nothing better
than vigorous discussion in cabinet.
"He drives the meetings,
tough questions, he likes dissent, he likes to see debate," he
said.
Republican Representative
Mark Foley of Florida also accused Mr O'Neill of delivering a "blatant
stab in the back".
FROM: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3391239.stm
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