Posted on 07/14/2004 11:17:32 AM PDT by BurkesLaw
In other words, the British Government did learn that Saddam Hussein did seek significant quantities of uranium from Africa......
(Excerpt) Read more at iconoclast.ca ...
If you listen closely, you can hear the libtard's a$$holes slamming shut all across the nation reading this!
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"If you listen closely, you can hear the libtard's a$$holes slamming shut all across the nation reading this!"
LOL
SNAP!
The Dem strategy for the war in Iraq and WMD seems to have been to isolate the weakest of several intel sources for a given event and discredit it. They act as if the discredited source is the only source thus further attempting to discredit any action taken based on what they claim is the only source. Pretty close to setting up and knocking down straw men.
I think it is a strategy that will eventually bite the Dems in the rear.
What bothers me is the Democrats' rabid willingness to attribute horrific lies to a sitting president. I don't know ANYONE in my real life who lies as much as they say Bush does. The very definition of "Evangelical Christian" begins with the words "Well, they don't lie". Bush didn't lie, he's not a liar, he loves his country and his countrymen. I'm sorry liberals, he simply doesn't want to kill 6 million jews, force your kids to pray to Jesus 5 times a day, nor give all your money to his rich friends from college.
As a wise man once said, they've achieved such a high pucker factor, you'd be hard pressed to drive a needle through there with a sledge hammer.
To paraphrase Rosanne.
"You couldn't pull a needle out of their butts with a tractor."
All Rats lie and call others liars.
We've got to make sure the word gets out. The campaign needs a catchphrase to offset the "Bush Lied" one that the left has used so successfully.
And what a change our President is from the thing that somehow held the office before.
We better make damn sure we put this guy back to work for four more years! In fact - I'd like to see the Constitution amended to have Mr. Bush be able to win a third four year term.
Before the President's gushing over those "great parents," Bill and Hillary Clinton, I'd've said the same.
Dan
Not sure if you missed this on your ping list or if I just didn't catch it. New to me...but it is a couple of days out of date.
No matter how much Mark Steyn, in his own artful way, states this, no one is paying attention except us.
I object to the title of this article and that we should even be defending whether our President lied or not about national security. The only issue is whether the intelligence was any good or not and has nothing to do with Bush.
Mr. Steyn flambays the fascist lefties again!
It might be more helpful to point to some actual journalism, instead of an op-ed piece.
Since I don't have a financial times subscription, I couldn't get the older story. But I got this suggesting the French would be the continental nation doing the watching; I've copied the entire FT article below.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA: Fake papers relating to uranium from Niger 'were offered for sale'
By Mark Huband, Security Correspondent, in London
Financial Times; Jul 13, 2004
Fake documents that are at the centre of a controversy surrounding alleged Iraqi attempts to procure uranium from Niger were offered to an Italian newspaper for €15,000 ($18,600, £10,000), a US congressional report on Iraq has revealed.
The documents were handed to the US embassy in Rome in October 2002 by an Italian journalist who asked US officials to verify their authenticity. The US passed them to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, whose officials quickly discovered they were forgeries.
The original source of the documents isamystery, although it is known they were passed to the journalist by an Italian businessman who had served in Italy's armed forces.
The revelation that the businessman had offered to sell the documents, as well as details of the sum involved, is found in the 497-page US Senate intelligence committee report released last week, on the intelligence material used to support the case for war in Iraq.
The businessman has a criminal record for extortion in Italy, although European intelligence officials investigating the source said yesterday they were unaware of the sum demanded for the documents.
The exposure of the documents as fakes undermined a claim made by President George W. Bush that Iraq had sought to buy uranium and may have been trying to reconstitute its nuclear programme.
The UK government has stood by its claim that Iraq had sought to buy uranium, and its assertion is expected to be supported by an official inquiry headed by Lord Butler whose report is published tomorrow. The UK has made clear that its claim was not based on the evidence provided in the fake documents, and that it had other evidence that Iraq had tried to buy uranium.
The Senate report adds weight to these claims by detailing the extent to which French intelligence information supported that being gathered by other intelligence agencies. The French information was given particular weight because French companies control Niger's uranium output.
© Copyright The Financial Times Ltd
I remember driving to work that morning... local radio stations were all over this, calling Bush the liar. Newpapers FRONT PAGE HEADLINES, every half-hour radio "news" updates repeating over and over and over this Lie.
DNC propaganda machine #1 enemy, imho.
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