wait, wait! When did Condi talk about the mushroom cloud??

[grasswire]

Did she talk about the mushroom cloud AFTER SOTU??

She sure did.

And so did a lot of other officials and apologists. Ari Fleischer for one.

After the Niger documents were KNOWN TO BE FALSE!!!

[opihimoimoi]

1. Them Bushites are so full of shit its pathetic.

Always deceptive and distractive. They all going down in History as ASSHOLE PUBs

[scottxyz]

2. Actually

I think Condi's first reference to "mushroom cloud" was way back in 2002:

http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/doc2252.html

Of course, she may have also referred to it again later.

[grasswire]

3. you may be right...

...it appears that the "mushroom cloud" phrase was developed to convince Congress to approve the war. It was bandied about in September and October.

From a VIPs memo:

"In your speech of Oct. 7, 2002, just four days before the vote in Congress, your advisers had you blur that distinction and raise the prospect that if Iraq could "produce, buy or steal" highly enriched uranium, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. You went on to warn that "the smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." (The "mushroom cloud" specter was again used on October 8 by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice with Wolf Blitzer on national TV, and on October 9 by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke with TV commentator Sam Donaldson.)"


http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/7943/view/print