:: Da' Militant One's Lair ::

:: Friday, July 11, 2003 ::

Memo to Sheep:

Get out your crying towels again. Check this out. This is from CBSNEWS.COM. It purports to explain how the Iraq/Niger/Uranium claim got into Bush's State of the Union Address in January.

National Security Correspondent David Martin.

CIA officials warned members of the president’s National Security Council staff the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa.

The White House officials responded that the September paper issued by the British government contained the unequivocal assertion: "Iraq has ... sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa"

As long as the statement was attributed to British Intelligence, the White House officials argued, it would be factually accurate. The CIA officials dropped their objections and that's how the charge was delivered.

“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,” Mr. Bush said in the speech. END


So there you have it. The Bush Administration calculated that even if the Iraq/Niger/Uranium story was false it could blame British intelligence. This my friends is not an act of presenting inaccurate intelligence to the American People as a pretext for war, it is a deliberate attempt to manipulate the public to support the Bush Administration's aims. In fact, Bush knew that the information he presented to the nation was a LIE. You said the country needed more honesty. You said lying to the American People was an impeachable offense. Bush was not under oath? So, it's okay to lie to the American People in a State of the Union address to gin up support for a war. It's okay to deny that you lied to the American People when much of the evidence shows that you knew or should have known that such a claim was false.

Is this the America, and the type of president that you voted for? I thought you were tired of government lies and secrecy? Oh, yeah! I keep forgetting those standards only applied to Bill Clinton. And after all didn't he lie about a b-job? That's much more serious than lying to the nation about a pretense for war that has resulted in 1200 U.S. military casualties and counting!

:: DM1 7/11/2003 08:53:00 AM [+] ::
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