[kellynla]

"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 Wilson’s 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 Wilson’s assertions and even the government’s 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 Bush’s 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."

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

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..."

[zook]

BUMP

[ClaireSolt]

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.

[Dems_R_Losers]

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.

[Para-Ord.45]

The report turns a harsh spotlight on what Wilson has said about his role in gathering prewar intelligence, most pointedly by asserting that his wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, recommended him.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39834-2004Jul9.html

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

”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."

Big, big, bump.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

BTTT!

[AliVeritas]

Wonder why this is never reported:

Niger's former prime minister Ibrahim Mayaki had actually told him an Iraqi team indeed visited Niger in 1999 in what Mayaki thought was a mission to buy uranium -- Niger's main export. Niger's former mining minister even told Wilson another lot of Iraqis tried to buy 40 tonnes of uranium a year earlier.

[doug from upland]

MEMORIALIZED IN SONG

[Just mythoughts]

This whole affair has a Scott Ritter smell about it. Wilson and his woman appear to be useful tools for our liberals.