Posted on 04/16/2006 4:38:57 PM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Which half do we get? Do we split it East/West or North/South?
I'm out west and like it here. Sure, it's greener and wetter in the east, but it's too humid in the summer. We get hot here, but it's a dry heat.
Decisions, decisions.....
North South.....
Libs get North, Cons get South....that way, we can take over Mexico.
How the hell do we fight this??
Well, I dont preach to the choir. I learn from the choir and post where these articles are needed such as in http://groups.google.com and USENET. There's nobody to win over in freerepublic. Normally if somebody is angry at Bush here (or a fellow republican) it is because of going too far to the left and not for being too conservative.The truth is on our side so we are free to post the source. They are not.Whenever they post a NYT, CBS source I google a story or find one at MediaResearch that exposes NYT or CBS for being one sided or incorrect in other stories. Whenever they claim FoxNews is conservative and pro-Bush, I remind them that it was Fox that broke the Bush DUI story. The truth is on our side. With thre exception of amnesty for illegals and the failure to be independent on foreign oil by drilling our own and building more refineries, the GOP and President Bush should have high numbers in the polls right now. There needs to be a shakeup in the communications dept of the WH and it needs to be done very soon.
The democrats are right on one thing. The Bush WH is too secretive and too closed mouth on so many issues. Unfortunately for the GOP those issues are ones that would be helping Bush and the GOP (not to mention the credibility of the USA)because the information not coming out of the mouth of Scott Mclellen is information such as "Bush Was Right About Iraq's Quest For Uranium". And that's a shame. Iran's taking advantage of that right now.
Bump.
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Yes but---they would hold the cities, Philadelphia, LA, NO, NY, and there'd be a siege in each one and when they surrendered, which they would, we would have to send aid to rebuild their shattered nation/confederacy, and then we're right back where we started, eh?
Nope, we will not interfere with their "choice" unless they are dumb enough to attack our half.....then there are few survivors. Our new constitution would have no margin for error or liberal exploitation.
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