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The Brits are staunchly sticking to their version of the story, which includes the under-reported fact that they have never actually revealed their source(s) to the US.

And I do not think this story, even if all and the worst things the Dems say is true, has much traction with the American people. Because, suppose we look at it from their angle, are they arguing, after all the terrible things that have come out about Saddam, and that are not disputed by anyone, that leaving him there would have been a good thing.

The dems and the left are as lost as I've ever seen such a large group of people. They seem to fail to realize that after 9/11 the American people lost any residual guilt over Vietnam, or Slavery, or our Culture, or lack of Culture. We are no longer willing to kow-tow to those who seek to destroy us, as individuals and as a nation.

And that includes any Americans who would join in that destruction. Especially, any Americans who want to be our President.

And I do not think this story, even if all and the worst things the Dems say is true, has much traction with the American people. Because, suppose we look at it from their angle, are they arguing, after all the terrible things that have come out about Saddam, and that are not disputed by anyone, that leaving him there would have been a good thing.

Over on the Sunday Talk Show thread I posted a lengthy excerpt from George Tenet's statement, where he says:

An unclassified CIA white paper in October made no mention of the issue, again because it was not fundamental to the judgment that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program, and because we had questions about some of the reporting. For the same reasons, the subject was not included in many public speeches, congressional testimony and the Secretary of State's United Nations presentation in early 2003.

Freeper cwboelter then made an excellent point:

This little statement is important, too, as Democrats have been implying that Bush's so-called lie was the "only" reason they supported the war. The Congress approved the use of force resolution back in October of 2002. In none of Bush's "congressional" speeches or public statements prior to the SOTU did Bush mention this African/Uranium connection. Neither did Powell in his presentation to the UN Security Council. And yet Democrats are acting as if this speech made in January of 2003 was thier sole vindication for this war. They've gone as far as running ads saying that Bush lied to get us into war. They are pathetic liars.