Posted on 07/14/2004 6:51:49 PM PDT by dufekin
British intelligence on Iraq's weapons capabilities was "seriously flawed," but there is no evidence to suggest that Prime Minister Tony Blair deliberately misled the public to make a case for war, an official inquiry has found. ... But compared with the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee's findings last week on the CIA's shortcomings, Britain's intelligence services were let off lightly by Butler. ... It did, however, back a British intelligence finding - now rejected by the U.S. - that Iraq tried to purchase "yellow cake" uranium from the African country of Niger, and also from Congo.
Blair, in his remarks to Parliament, insisted that even if the intelligence was wrong, the decision to go to war against Iraq was correct. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
I'm just waiting for three years from now, when the Democrats will lambaste the reports that the intelligence was faulty as "right-wing spin." I know it's going to happen; Kerry changes positions more frequently than a Nevada {BLE---------EP}.
But I find the Congo claim most interesting. I noticed an Associated Press dispatch from a mine in the hinterlands near Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The uranium for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima apparently came from that mine. Although the mine is legally closed to prospectors, ten thousand or so Congolese dig there on most days. The article originially included an extended dispatch linking the mine to Saddam Hussein, possibly through Nairobi, Kenya. About three weeks later, the same article appeared without the claims regarding Iraq.
TERRORISTS + URANIUM + ENRICHMENT = PROBLEMS (an understatement)
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