"Iraq Uranium Claim Gets Some Support"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - It was one of the first signs that the intelligence used to go to war in Iraq was wrong: White House repudiation of 16 words in last year's State of the Union speech that had suggested Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium in Africa. Yet even as two recent reports sharply criticized prewar intelligence, they also suggested President Bush's claim may not have been totally off-base.

A British report concluded that Bush's statement and a similar one by Prime Minister Tony Blair were "well-founded." In his speech, Bush had attributed the uranium claim to the British government.

A Senate Intelligence Committee report found inadequate evidence that deposed Iraqi President Saddam had been rebuilding his nuclear weapons program. It cited various reports, however, that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa. Thus, although Bush cited only British documents that later proved to have been forged, intelligence files clearly contained other evidence of the truth of the claim.

The committee chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, said he believed last year that the White House was correct in repudiating the uranium claim. "Now I don't know whether it's accurate or not. That's the whole question," Roberts, R-Kan., said in an interview.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040718/D83TBVTO0.html

[frylock]

1. bull-fucking-shit..

every 3 months, like clockwork, they trot this krap back out. Where's the evidence that would "support" the claim? If "intelligence files clearly contained other evidence of the truth of the claim", then lets have a look.

Look for this BS claim to be back in late October.