Bush Was Right About Iraq's Quest For Uranium

Real Clear Politics ^ | April 16,2006 | Jon Leo

[tcrlaf]

Bush Was Right About Iraq's Quest For Uranium By John Leo

In a surprising editorial, The Washington Post deviated from the conventional anti-Bush media position on two counts. It said President Bush was right to declassify parts of a National Intelligence Estimate to make clear why he thought Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons. And the editorial said ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson was wrong to think he had debunked Bush on the nuclear charge because Wilson's statements after visiting Niger actually "supported the conclusion that Iraq had sought uranium."

In the orthodox narrative line, Wilson is the truth-teller and the Bush the liar. But Wilson was not speaking truthfully when he said his wife, Victoria Plame, had nothing to do with the CIA sending him to Niger. And it obviously wasn't true, as Wilson claimed, that he had found nothing to support Bush's charge about Niger when he (Wilson) had been told that the Iraqis were poking around in that uranium-rich nation.

Testifying before the Senate intelligence committee, Wilson said that the former prime minister of Niger told him he had been asked to meet with Iraqis to talk about "expanding commercial relations" between the two countries. Everybody knew what that meant; Niger has nothing much to trade other than uranium.

Christopher Hitchens made the latter point last week in a muscular column subtitled "Sorry, everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger."

[tcrlaf]

***Why isn't what Wilson did treasonous?***

Because the Liberal definition of "Treason" is now anything that helps Bush, or makes him look good in ANY light....

Just as defeating Democrats at the ballot box has become a crime, so is believing that America has the right to protect itself, it's people. and it's interests from those that wish us harm........

[Mo1]

Hitchens made another point. The forged documents claiming an Iraq-Niger connection were so crude that they could never have fooled the CIA or British intelligence for very long. Who would do this, and do it so badly? Nobody knows. But if the forgeries were meant to distract from other evidence that Bush was right, then they certainly worked. Look around in American journalism, and you will find great certitude that the forgeries destroyed Bush's claim.

Should we ask Dan what he knows about the forged documents ??

Just kidding

Though it is interesting that media is ignoring who could have written them

[infidel29]

bump

[MaDeuce]

50 years from now, PoliSci classes will be studying this, and how so many people could be so easily decieved by DNC/Soros/Moonbat-paid propoganda..... If we have a nation at all in 50 years.......

I'm not sure 50 years from now there will be Poli-Sci classes in any of the Wahabi schools in the great North American Caliphate of Islam ... based on the way US and Europe is taking the threat Islam poses to the rest of the world.

[mcshot]

I have my doubts about our nation surviving another 50 years as well.

[bboop]

We have to be prepared to fight for what we love.

[Chi-townChief]

bttt

[Bush gal in LA]

Yup, I'm sure he is thoroughly and absolutely despised by the left. I think he used to work at ''The Nation''magazine but quickly left there after 911, cause he felt we needed to fight back against the terrorists and all the creeps there flipped out and told him it was ''all our fault.''

[thoughtomator]

So when does Wilson get sued and/or go to jail over his false and defamatory testimony?

[mtntop3]

While the media bleats, leftists are all but openly supporting a Mad Mullah.

One of the Mad Mullah's most fervent apologist at this time is Pat Buchanan, the antisemitic rightist. Buchanan. is joined in his venomous bigotry by Charley Reese, another columnist of similar feverish propensities.

[Enduring Freedom]

My theory:

The White House is playing possum.

Iran sits flanked to the east by Iraq, to the west by Afghanistan.

Coincidence?

If anything, the so-called 'insurgents' have done us a great favor - justifying remaining 'in-country'.

We're still in Iraq and Afghanistan because the War with Iran has just begun.

[Enduring Freedom]

Oops...east=west, etc.

[Enduring Freedom]

[MaineVoter2002]

Either that or Scott McClellan needs to be replaced

[Enduring Freedom]

Either that or Scott McClellan needs to be replaced

I wouldn't hire that pathetic wimp McClellan, the 'George Costanza' of Public Relations, to sell vacuums, let alone defend the Free World.

President Bush - hire a competent and convincing Public Relations spokesperson IMMEDIATELY FOR GOD'S SAKE!

[smoothsailing]

I was going to post the WP link to the article but I see it's here. The Pittsburgh Tribune Review is carrying this story in it's Monday edition,BTW.

[MaineVoter2002]

I agree! You know many documents have come out, many connections to Al Qaeda, UN banned weapons...etc yet only Freepers seem to know this and probably not learnt from that pathetic wimp.

Here what we get when we post this stuff in USENET and Google and probably even from the MSM. This thread was posted in USENET and one reply from a liberal went like this...

"even Bush knows to shut up about this
issue. Every week we learn another WMD lie he told"

http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalNewsGroups-PC.html

[JayNorth]

You know this, I know this, then why is it most Americans DO NOT??

It's probably easy if you were force-fed liberal claptrap throughout 16 or more years of school, watch the Today show and read the New York Times for your "news", watch Boston Legal or West Wing for "entertainment", and your friends and co-workers do the same and repeat the same stuff back to each other as gospel.

It is indoctrination and accomplishes its goal.

[tcrlaf]

And here is a wonderful brainiac's response from ANOTHER board...

"why would any sane person defend a president that has repeatedly lied to his own people?
WMDS=lie
Yellow CAke=LIe
The LEak of PLAME= LIE
Denied ever meeting Abramoff= LIE
Mission Accomplished = LIE
Only spying on international calls= LIE.."

When the lies become the accepted truth, how in the hell do we fight back?? The only parralel I can find in history is Hitler's demogagoray of the Jews....

[tcrlaf]

Here's another fine example from the same board, from about 3 minutes ago.

"GW Admin Used Fear Against Own People
by: nsn99801
pumped it up - used as weapon against own people so they could scam treasury dry for rich friends ....."

Notice that NOTHING is offered as PROOF of this allegation, it's just strung out there, and parroted everywhere....

You can repeat the same FACTS over and over again to these people, and 2 days later they'll be back spreading the same bullshit propoganda. How the hell do we fight this??