Posted on 03/13/2006 9:11:59 AM PST by jbwbubba
New Iraqi Documents Show Bush Didn't 'Lie'
Newly translated Iraqi documents from Saddam Hussein's regime show that President Bush was factually accurate when he told the nation in his 2003 State of the Union Address that Iraq had recently sought uranium from Africa.
Bush's 16-word statement had formed the basis for the claim adopted by administration critics that "Bush lied" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.
But according to the Washington Times today, an unnamed U.S. official reports that "newly translated Iraqi documents . . . tell of Saddam seeking uranium from Africa in the mid-1990s."
The documents also speak of burying prohibited missiles, a government official familiar with the declassification process told the paper.
In his January 2003 address, Bush told the nation:
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
The statement prompted former ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson to complain to the New York Times seven months later: "I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."
The new documents strongly suggest, however, that Wilson was wrong - and that the "Bush lied" mantra adopted by most Democrats since Wilson first made his complaint has been based on bogus information.
Confirmation on African uranium claim offered by Iraqi documents may be just the tip of the iceberg.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Peter Hoekstra told the Washington Times that about 500 hours of Saddam audiotape is still being translated and analyzed by the U.S.
And U.S. Central Command has 48,000 boxes of Iraqi documents, of which the military has delivered just 68 pages to his committee so far.
"I don't want to overstate what is in the documents," Hoekstra told the paper. "[But] I certainly want to get them out because I think people are going to find them very interesting."
>>>"Newly translated Iraqi documents from Saddam Hussein's regime show that President Bush was factually accurate when he told the nation in his 2003 State of the Union Address that Iraq had recently sought uranium from Africa."
The Republican party should plaster photographic replicas of these documents along with the appropriate message on highway signs throughout the nation and in websites and blogs before the next election. The sooner the better.
Everyone's responding to Tonkin's reprint of your post instead of to you!
So, let me say: Excellent points!
You have articulated the problem that frustrates so many of us.
HA!
Tonight on 'Hardbowel'... “Russ Feingold calls for Bush censure... Was Armitage the Plame leaker?... Is impeachment inevitable?”
Correct! Rush had a list of Wilson's lies on his website for quite awhile .. maybe he needs to put it up again just to refresh people's memories.
Or maybe I'll re-type it and post it here - it dynamite.
Amen! I couldn't agree more!!
Nana
Not a peep from the executive branch, either. If this President and his staff do not see the need to put forth ducumentary evidence with underlinings and footnotes to draw attention to the most important points, then I see no need for anyone else to take the trouble to do what they find too much work to do themselves. If a man (or adminstration) will not stand up for himself, then he can not really expect support from others. If Mr. Bush thinks that making a few speeches - which is not his strong suit - will turn around his negatives then he is more of an idiot than the Demo-idiots portray him to be. You're losing your base Mr. President!
BTTT
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