Posted on 07/15/2004 3:00:09 PM PDT by swilhelm73
So now the British government has published its own inquiry into the intelligence behind the invasion of Iraq, with equally devastating implications for the credibility of the Bush-Blair "lied" crowd. Like last week's 511-page document from the Senate Intelligence Committee, the exhaustive British study found some flawed intelligence but no evidence of "deliberate distortion." Inquiry leader Lord Butler told reporters that Prime Minister Tony Blair had "acted in good faith."
What's more, Lord Butler was not ready to dismiss Saddam Hussein as a threat merely because no large "stockpiles" of weapons of mass destruction have been found. The report concludes that Saddam probably intended to pursue his banned programs, including the nuclear one, if and when U.N. sanctions were lifted; that research, development and procurement continued so WMD capabilities could be sustained; and that he was pursuing the development of WMD delivery systems--missiles--of longer range than the U.N. permitted.
But the part that may prove most salient in the U.S. is that, like the Senate Intelligence findings, the Butler report vindicates President Bush on the allegedly misleading "16 words" regarding uranium from Africa: "We conclude also that the statement in President Bush's State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that 'The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa' was well-founded." (Click here for more excerpts.)
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
The DUmbasses are up to their 8TH thread on how the Plame grand jury is going to bring down the Bush 'regime.'
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I can't wait to see their conspiratorial, rigged/bribed grand jury lunacy when the administration is exonerated.
Why are they (DU) posting threads on the Plame investigation? Is the investigation about over? Are there rumors regarding its findings?
They were moist with excitement for a while as they sensed a cascade of indictments but, alack, the cascade turned out to be quite the opposite kind of news...the kind good for President Bush. Now they whistle past Joe Wilson's political graveyard by turning their focus elsewhere.
If you post on DU, tell them that the Freepers want John Kerry to apologize to President Bush for shopping the "Bush Lied" story to the media, and hiring Joe Wilson as a campaign advisor.
I read their stuff often, but never post. What would be the point? Even a polite request is deleted if it implies anything bad about Qerry or Ol' Crusty or the 'Big Dog.'
That bunch of anti-American, anti-Liberty foreigners are too busy stinkfingering Terry McAuliffe to type 'we made a mistake,' as if they ever had the courage (or even enough psychologically-healthy self-awareness) to make such an admission.
A pox on all of them.
Wilson's book might set a new record for the most rapid descent into the 50-cent bin. (Unless John Dean's "Worse than Watergate" beats him to it.)
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