*Ø* Condoleezza Rice admits Iraq tube claims were dubious

"Condoleezza Rice -- one top aide who cited the claims about aluminium tubes seized in Jordan in June 2001 in urging that Saddam was attempting to revive a nuclear program -- was responding to a report in The New York Times that Bush officials ignored doubts about the potential other uses of thousands of the high-strength tubes to press the case for war.

"Rice claimed in September 2002 that the tubes were 'only really suited for nuclear weapons programs'." [My emphasis]
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[The dashes in the first paragraph were inserted by me. The reporter had written the entire first paragraph as one sentence, which was kinda hard to read.]