Re: Bush Rx Psychoactive Use??

From: Steve Harris sbharris_at_ROMAN9.netcom.com (sbharris_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: 21 Oct 2004 16:29:39 -0700

"Rick" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:<2tqeqiF21rekoU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> I'm copying the following unformatted transcript for Google's
> archive, of a speech given last Monday by Al Gore at
> Georgetown University. >
> Al Gore Speaks on Iraq
> Monday, October 18 , 2004 at 12:30pm
> Gaston Hall, Georgetown University
> Washington, D.C.

[snip]

> For example, when the President and his team were asserting that Saddam Hussein had aluminum tubes that had been acquired in order
> to enrich Uranium for atomic bombs, numerous experts at the Department of Energy and elsewhere in the intelligence community were
> certain that the information being presented by the President was completely wrong. The true experts on Uranium enrichment are at
> Oak Ridge, in my home state of Tennessee. And they told me early on that in their opinion there was virtually zero possibility
> whatsoever that the tubes in question were for the purpose of enrichment - and yet they received a directive forbidding them from
> making any public statement that disagreed with the President's assertions.

COMMENT:

Hope the "experts" told Gore that "uranium" is not capitalized, any
more than aluminum is. A mistake he makes twice.

BTW, what the hell were these fancy finely machined aluminum tubes
used for, anyway?? They impressed me mightily at the time, the best
prop that Powell had. So if not for centrifuges, then what? Anybody?
I notice Gore doesn't say, either.

SBH