Rice refused to take responsibility for her misstatements in the run-up to the war in Iraq. On 9/9/02, Rice said, "We do know that [Saddam] is actively pursuing a nuclear weapon." [here] And on 9/7/03, Rice said, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."[here] Later, after weapons inspector David Kay had determined Iraq's nuclear weapons programs were retired in 1991,[here] Rice told PBS that "It was a case that said he was trying to reconstitute…Nobody ever said that it was going to be the next year." [more] Rice did not admit any inconsistency in those statements, instead lashing out at Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) at her hearing for "impugning my integrity." But Rice impugned her own integrity: click [here] for more than fifty Rice misstatements about 9/11 and the war in Iraq during her four year tenure as national security advisor. [more]
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