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Joe Wilson: Lying About Iraqi Uranium
Hawaii Reporter ^
| 11/3/2005
| Andrew Walden
Posted on 11/05/2005 7:02:53 AM PST by kellynla
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"According to a July 10, 2004, Washington Post article on the Senate Intelligence Committee findings about Wilson's investigatory trip to Niger, Africa, unanimously agreed by all committee senators, including Democrats, The panel found that Wilsons report, rather than debunking intelligence about purported uranium sales to Iraq, as he has said, bolstered the case for most intelligence analysts.
And contrary to Wilsons assertions and even the governments previous statements, the CIA did not tell the White House it had qualms about the reliability of the Africa intelligence that made its way into 16 fateful words in President Bushs January 2003 State of the Union address.
In March, 2003, when U.S. tanks rolled into Iraq, 500 tons of yellow cake uranium was found at the Iraqi nuclear research center of al-Tuwaitha. This included 1.8 tons of partly enriched uranium. On June 23, 2004, the U.S. military, working with the U.S. Department of Energy removed this material to the US where is held at an unnamed Department of Energy facility."
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posted on
11/05/2005 7:02:54 AM PST
by
kellynla
To: kellynla
Here's a related Newsmax blast from the past:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/8/112447.shtml
"...The press hasn't made much of Saddam's 500-ton uranium stockpile, downplaying the story to such an extent that most Americans aren't even aware of it.
But it's been reported - albeit in a by-the-way fashion - by the New York Times and a handful of other media outlets..."
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posted on
11/05/2005 7:06:31 AM PST
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
("Every time the court veers left, the people are overwhelmingly opposed." [Laura Ingraham])
To: kellynla
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posted on
11/05/2005 7:07:23 AM PST
by
zook
To: zook
Matthews keep this up and he'll be drafted into the Major Leagues. All us Americans want is a fair shake. Libby doesn't deserve this.
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posted on
11/05/2005 7:12:56 AM PST
by
ONETWOONE
(onetwoone)
To: kellynla
I think I see a pattern here of making the same false charge ad nauseum and ad infinitum. Facts don't matter, so investigations are futile. We've spent millions investigating this.
As British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on July 14, 2004 in response to the Butler Inquiry into pre-war Iraq intelligence, This is now the fourth exhaustive inquiry that has dealt with this issue. This report, like the Hutton inquiry, like the report of the ISC before it and of the FAC before that, has found the same thing. No-one lied. No-one made up the intelligence. No-one inserted things into the dossier against the advice of the intelligence services.
consider how much "Bush lied" is like "stolen election", something frequently asserted in spite of numerous recounts that all came out the same. Not only is this boring and infuriating, but it is also expensive. We need a very effective strategy to discourage it.
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posted on
11/05/2005 7:14:29 AM PST
by
ClaireSolt
(.)
To: ClaireSolt
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posted on
11/05/2005 7:19:42 AM PST
by
Crim
(I may be a Mr "know it all"....but I'm also a Mr "forgot most of it"...)
To: kellynla
I've said it before - Democrats are waging the same war as the terrorists in Iraq, just without IEDs and suicide bombs. Both are trying to break the American people's will to carry out this war to its conclusion. That is the only way this war will be lost; both the Democrats and al-Qaeda know it.
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posted on
11/05/2005 7:22:08 AM PST
by
Dems_R_Losers
(The Kerry/Lehane/Wilson/Grunwald/Cooper plot to destroy Karl Rove has failed!!)
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: ClaireSolt
"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth."
Old Vlad gave the modern Rats their most effective
and only,it seems strategy.
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posted on
11/05/2005 7:34:58 AM PST
by
SAWTEX
To: ClaireSolt
It's not the facts of the case that matter but the seriousness of the accusation.
To: Baynative
---
Yesterday, I heard Tony Snow give a riveting prediction of how this trial may pan out and the devastation it will cause in regards to the "has been" media.-----
---as much as I'd like to see this too, I don't think there is enough backbone in the entire Republidum establishment to do anything about it---
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posted on
11/05/2005 7:51:56 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(urbanites don' t understand the cultural deprivation of not being raised on a farm:NRABenefactor)
To: Baynative
To: JDoutrider
If enough of us donate to the Libby defence fund it might very well happen. I can see myself donating $100 to watch Tim Russert and the rest of the MSM squirm in their seats on the witness stand. Well worth the ticket price in my mind. Bwahahahahahaha. On top of this I will have to add the price of popcorn, drinks etc. Hehehehehe.
To: Baynative
start making deals, they'll beg them to arrange a plea or drop the charges altogether. We don't need no stinkin deals. Go Libby
Thanks Baynative.
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posted on
11/05/2005 8:07:01 AM PST
by
BARLF
To: Arthur Wildfire! March; kellynla
That uranium stockpile was already tagged by the UN, though.
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posted on
11/05/2005 8:07:45 AM PST
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Baynative
Excuse the analogy, but that's a conservative's wet dream. Almost like Watergate in reverse, but better because the libs will be the authors of their own demise. Man, what a beautiful thing this could become.
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posted on
11/05/2005 8:14:29 AM PST
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom!)
To: kellynla
To: ClaireSolt
>>>>We need a very effective strategy to discourage it.
1) Focus very hard on a number of Democratic Party leaders who made fairly bellicose statements regarding Iraq between 1996 and 2003.
2) Demand to see all the intelligence upon which these statements were based.
3) Ask in what way any additions to this intelligence authored after 2001 changed the Dems point of view on Iraq.
4) Demand factual proof that this intel was false.
5) If no proof comes out at step 4, start accusing all the Dems who made pro Iraq statements of lying America into war.
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posted on
11/05/2005 8:19:53 AM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(Because change is not something you talk into existence.)
To: Gondring
That uranium stockpile was already tagged by the UN, though.Why is that relevant? Did Iraq have 500 tons of uranium or not?
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posted on
11/05/2005 8:22:56 AM PST
by
ez
("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - from Milton's 'Paradise Lost ')
To: Baynative
I'm not a tinfoil guy bit if I were, at this point I'd be wondering if some evil Machivellian sort had this whole thing planned.
The thought of discovery and MSM in the same sentence is simply delicious. Be it serendippity or the "evil" Karl Rove, it is a dream come true.
Of course, first amendment issues are rife which doesn't portend well for a full airing but you never know!
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posted on
11/05/2005 8:24:23 AM PST
by
jwalsh07
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