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[stepnw1f]

Below is the link that proves that Bush did not lie. Factcheck.org is the defacto site that both parties refer to when resolving just such an issue. They do their research correctly and are held to standards higher than that of News services. Bush did not lie about Niger.


http://www.factcheck.org/article222.html

Bush's "16 Words" on Iraq & Uranium: He May Have Been Wrong But He Wasn't Lying

Two intelligence investigations show Bush had plenty of reason to believe what he said in his 2003 State of the Union Address.

July 26, 2004

Modified: August 23, 2004

Summary

The famous “16 words” in President Bush’s Jan. 28, 2003 State of the Union address turn out to have a basis in fact after all, according to two recently released investigations in the US and Britain.

Bush said then, “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .” Some of his critics called that a lie, but the new evidence shows Bush had reason to say what he did.

A British intelligence review released July 14 calls Bush’s 16 words “well founded.”

A separate report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee said July 7 that the US also had similar information from “a number of intelligence reports,” a fact that was classified at the time Bush spoke.

Ironically, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who later called Bush’s 16 words a “lie”, supplied information that the Central Intelligence Agency took as confirmation that Iraq may indeed have been seeking uranium from Niger . 

Both the US and British investigations make clear that some forged Italian documents, exposed as fakes soon after Bush spoke, were not the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA's conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium.

None of the new information suggests Iraq ever nailed down a deal to buy uranium, and the Senate report makes clear that  US intelligence analysts have come to doubt whether  Iraq was even trying to buy the stuff. In fact, both the White House and the CIA long ago conceded that the 16 words shouldn’t have been part of Bush’s speech.

But what he said – that Iraq sought uranium – is just what both B

I went to factcheck.org and it's either hacked or bullshit.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Fact Check is a bullshit deal. It is operated by some Walter Annenberg

(important rw reagan dickhead) front, the purpose is to confuse the issues. Don't look for the truth there, you won't find it.

[wishlist]

2. State Dept memo stated that they were convinced Iraq did not seek uranium

According to the newly leaked State Dept memo involved in the Plame investigation, the State Dept official (who was aware of CIA sending Joe Wilson to Niger) did not approve of CIA sending Wilson because the State Dept was already convinced that Iraq had not been seeking uranium from Niger.

Sounds like there is deliberate misinformation designed to protect the WH both in the Senate Intelligence report conclusions and other sources mentioned in the factcheck article.

[jayctravis]

3. The Ministry of Information.

plusgood.