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Faked intelligence on Iraq just the tip of the iceberg: senator

A leading Democrat in Congress accused the White House Tuesday of a broad pattern of dissembling in making its case for waging war on Iraq.
Carl Levin, senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, refuted White House claims that now-discredited reports that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear material from Africa was an isolated case of Washington using dodgy pre-war intelligence.
"The misleading statement about African uranium is not an isolated incident. There is a significant amount of troubling evidence that it was part of a pattern of exaggerations and misleading statements," he said.