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| Bitch-Slapping WaPo for Lies: Let Them Eat Yellowcake |
| 2005-10-27 |
| ht Lucianne In an analysis of Joe Wilson's credibility, The Washington Post claims his charge that President Bush lied about Iraq seeking uranium in Niger "has been validated." It hasn't — and Bush never said that. There it was, on Page A3 of Tuesday's edition, an analysis by Post staff writers Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus, claiming: "Wilson's central assertion — disputing President Bush's 2003 State of the Union claim that Iraq was seeking nuclear material in Niger — has been validated by postwar inspections." What Bush actually said was: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Africa, not Niger. The "claim" was not made by Bush, but by British intelligence, and Bush said Hussein had only sought yellowcake, not that he had succeeded. Both a bipartisan report of the U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence and a British investigation of prewar intelligence have confirmed that when Bush uttered those famous 16 words in a 5,400-word State of the Union, his statement was "well-founded" based on intelligence that was then, and is now, credible. Not only that, but it is former Ambassador Wilson, whose statements have been cited as "proof" Bush lied us into war, who has been found to have contradicted himself and possibly given false testimony to Congress. In an addendum to the report, Sen. Pat Roberts and two other Republicans said Wilson provided "inaccurate, unsubstantiated and misleading" information. We know now that Wilson himself reported that former Prime Minister Ibrahim Mayaki of Niger told him of a 1999 visit by the Iraqis to discuss "commercial relations" with a country whose major export was uranium. Wilson's debriefing upon his return from Africa, according to the report, provided "some confirmation of foreign government service reporting" that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger. The Senate report states that British and French intelligence reported separately to the CIA about Iraqi procurement efforts in Niger, with the committee citing separate reports received from foreign intelligence services on Oct. 15, 2001; Feb. 5, 2002; and March 25, 2002, that Iraq was indeed seeking to purchase yellowcake. As Robin Butler, head of the British investigation, says in his report: "It is accepted by all parties that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999. The British government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium.Since uranium comprises almost three-quarters of Niger's exports, the intelligence was credible." Like the Senate findings, the Butler report vindicates Bush: "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 sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa' was well-founded." Was Prime Minister Tony Blair also lying when he told the British Parliament in 2003: "In the 1980s, Iraq purchased somewhere in the region of 200 or more tons of uranium from Niger. The evidence that we had that the Iraq government had gone back to try to purchase further amounts of uranium from Niger did not come from so-called forged documents; they came from separate intelligence." It was once said that history is a lie agreed upon. Joe Wilson has told enough lies. He doesn't need any help from the media. Amen. Finally, there is a rumbling, a growing wave of people who have had enough lies, enough dissembling, enough disingenious agenda bullshit, enough BDS. Truth-telling is on the rise. I doubt we'll ever see justice, unless Civil War II includes burning down much of the MSM and lynching the owners, editors, and "star reporters", such as Krugman, Dowd, et al, but perhaps it will be enough just to clean out the shitholes and sterilize them with Truth... lynching only the owners and editors... |
| Posted by:.com |
| #2 Those who want to believe the lies will continue to subscribe to them. Those who (like myself) have had enough of the MSM merely gance their coverage to find out what the whining and wailing is about now. My BS filter hasn't been adequate for over a decade now. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-10-27 18:51 |
| #1 I doubt we'll ever see justice, unless Civil War II includes burning down much of the MSM and lynching the owners, editors, and "star reporters", such as Krugman, Dowd, et al, but perhaps it will be enough just to clean out the shitholes and sterilize them with Truth... lynching only the owners and editors... Sounds like a GREAT idea!!!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-10-27 09:32 |