Bush Nuke Basher Admitted Saddam Sought the Bomb

NewsMax.com ^ | 7/14/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

The diplomat who set off a political firestorm last week when he told the New York Times that President Bush may have "exaggerated" when he told the nation that Iraq sought nuclear fuel in Africa admitted last October that he believed Saddam Hussein had "an aggressive program to try and get" nuclear weapons.

Though former acting U.S. ambassador to Iraq Joseph C. Wilson's op-ed in the Times warned that Bush might have led the U.S. to war "under false pretenses" by ginning up a bogus nuclear threat, he was singing a different tune during an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" nine months ago.

Under close questioning by Sean Hannity, Wilson insisted that Saddam "doesn't have nuclear weapons, to the best of anybody's knowledge."

But then, in an admission that contradicts the central point of his Times op-ed, Wilson added, "though he has an aggressive program to try and get them."

Last week, Wilson cited his inability to confirm an Iraq-Niger nuke connection to conclude in the Times: "Some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the nuclear threat."

But if, as Wilson told "Hannity & Colmes" in October, he believed Saddam indeed had an "aggressive" nuclear program at the time, his claim that Bush distorted the nuclear threat seems disingenuous at best.

The full exchange between Hannity and Wilson went like this:

HANNITY: Wait a minute. If he's still – if he's going after – if he's going after weapons of mass destruction, with his willingness to use them, and your belief, have – they having told you they'd use them, isn't it important we get him before he got these other weapons? Wouldn't that be ...

WILSON: Well ...

HANNITY: Wouldn't that make good sense in your mind?

WILSON: Well, first of all, Sean – just a second. Just let me be very clear. He has chemical weapons.

HANNITY: Right.

WILSON: He has biological weapon capability ...

HANNITY: Right.

WILSON: ... and may have biological weapons. He doesn't have nuclear weapons, to the best of anybody's knowledge, even though he has an aggressive program to try and get them.

HANNITY: He's working hard to get them, but – but, I mean, if we don't ...

WILSON; That's right. [End of Excerpt]

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[finnman69]

revisionist RAT history BUMP!

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[MJY1288]

Ping

[William McKinley]

Thanks!

[Peach]

Look what Wilson said about Iraq's nuclear weapons program last October - singing a different tune back then.

[Dog]

Thanks Peach!

[MEG33]

A new addition to my list of reasons I think Wilson has an agenda and is not credible in his criticism of Bush.

[MJY1288]

If any investigation is done by Congress, it should be on Wilson and his Wife

[Dog]

Was Wilson's op-ed posted on FR???

[William McKinley]

Someone set him up the bomb.

[Dog]

I can not find a lick of information on Wilson's wife.......nada!

[Grampa Dave]

Well, as many of us have noted this past week, Wilson appears to be nothing but a lying wh$re for the rats.

Good for Sean!

[EllaMinnow]

Lookee here!

[MJY1288]

Plame is her last name and she is an operative in the CIA

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Where's that thread on FR?

[MJY1288]

Yes it was

[William McKinley]

If so, I cannot find it. Here's a copy though.

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP* !

[Grampa Dave]

Here is one thread on this lying POS Rat:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/945331/posts

Report: CIA Source on Niger Nuke Flap is a Bush-Hater (Wilson)
NewsMax.com ^ | 7/13/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff


Posted on 07/13/2003 9:45 AM PDT by kattracks



The man who helped set off a media firestorm over President Bush's State of the Union reference to Iraq seeking uranium in Niger is actually a confirmed Bush-hater who opposed the war in Iraq and complained in March that Bush had led America into a period of "historical madness."

In his New York Times op-ed piece last Sunday, so-called career diplomat Joseph Wilson said he was tapped by the CIA to investigate whether there was any truth to the Niger uranium story. After traveling to the country and interviewing government and industry officials, Wilson said he couldn't find anyone who would confirm that Niger sold uranium to Iraq.

In fact, President Bush never claimed that the transaction had been completed, telling Congress instead, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

Still, Wilson's inability to confirm something Bush hadn't claimed prompted him to write:

"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."

Writing in the National Review Online, GOP consultant Cliff May reveals that media portrayals of Wilson as a disinterested career diplomat may be quite an exaggeration in and of themselves.