Posted on 11/28/2005 4:45:35 AM PST by mal
Those who charge President Bush and Vice President Cheney with lying to get America involved in the war in Iraq, as the New York Times columnist Frank Rich did yesterday, have a special obligation to get the truth correct themselves. It's one thing for Mr. Rich to disagree with the decision to go to war in Iraq and to blame Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney for the decision. It's another for Mr. Rich to accuse our elected leaders of misleading the country while the columnist himself goes about misleading readers of The New York Times.
The Niger Uranium
Mr. Rich's New York Times column yesterday refers to Mr. Bush's 2003 State of the Union address with the "bogus 16 words about Saddam's fictitious African uranium." Those words were, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." But those 16 words are neither bogus nor fictitious. They were and are true. A July 2004 report of the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reported that an Iraqi delegation visited Niger in June of 1999 and met with Niger's then-prime minister, Ibrahim Mayaki. The committee relayed that Mr. Mayaki said the meeting was about "expanding commercial relations" between the two countries, which Mr. Mayaki interpreted to mean "that the delegation wanted to discuss uranium yellowcake sales."
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Interesting that no one seems to notice that, constitutionally, it isn't up to the president to take us to war.
The NYT bathhouse boys are at it again.
Can never hear often enough!
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Your nose is longer than a telephone wire...
I am well past the point of being out of patience with this "Bush lied" thing. It's totally irrational. But like the "Clinton was impeached for having an affair" and "Bush stole the 2000 election" canards from the left, the "Bush lied" propaganda is an absolute article of faith for many. Don't let reality intrude on a good delusion, I suppose . . .
New guy, I see....
You'll go far, I'm sure.
Gee, you created a member account just for this?
Buh-bye!
Ted Rose, member since 2005-11-28. Screen name honoring Ted Kennedy and Rose Kennedy?
Viking kitties, here's some catnip.
I'm sure you'd prefer Saddam still in power. Sorry to disappoint you. The lefts love for dictators is really quite baffling.
Truth, schmruth! In their nasty little post-modern world whatever they repeat is ipso facto "truth", because they say it is. Actual facts don't matter. Only their saying it does.
We ought to stop plying these fools with ink and instead ply them with horsewhips and hot tar and feathers. It won't change their minds but it will make us feel good and serve as an object lesson to others!
Frank Rich is an evil anti-Christian!!
Being a NY Times editorialist means never having to admit you are full of crap.
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