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Tuesday, July 08, 2003

Bush Lied!

That should have been the headline in today's Washington Post as the administration finally admitted that Bush lied, excuse me, "misled the people" in his State of the Union address when he said that Iraq had sought to buy uranium from an African country to reconstitute its nuclear program. Turns out the information was simply dead wrong.
Joseph Wilson, who actually went to Niger on behalf of the US to verify the intelligence findings, said that his report on the issue was buried. But instead of a damning headline and story about this great deception, we get this:
The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time yesterday that President Bush should not have alleged in his State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Africa to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program.

Asked about the British report, the administration released a statement that, after weeks of questions about the president's uranium-purchase assertion, effectively conceded that intelligence underlying the president's statement was wrong.

"Knowing all that we know now, the reference to Iraq's attempt to acquire uranium from Africa should not have been included in the State of the Union speech," a senior Bush administration official said last night in a statement authorized by the White House.

All carefully worded to avoid placing blame on the President. Just a simple, "whoops!" But it's something we need to remember when the election rolls around.
It's all a simple misunderstanding.

posted by chris at 10:38 AM
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