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Yellowcake Remix: What the National Intelligence Estimate said about Iraq's hunt for uranium
Opinion Journal ^ | 7/17/2003

Posted on 07/16/2003 9:27:53 PM PDT by Utah Girl

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

One of the mysteries of the recent yellowcake uranium flap is why the White House has been so defensive about an intelligence judgment that we don't yet know is false, and that the British still insist is true. Our puzzlement is even greater now that we've learned what last October's national intelligence estimate really said.


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1 posted on 07/16/2003 9:27:53 PM PDT by Utah Girl
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To: Utah Girl
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2 posted on 07/16/2003 9:31:22 PM PDT by Iowa Granny (Well behaved women seldom make history)
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3 posted on 07/16/2003 9:32:22 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Utah Girl
Thanks for the post.
4 posted on 07/16/2003 9:34:16 PM PDT by MEG33
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To: Utah Girl; MJY1288
Thanks for posting this, UG.

ping for M.

5 posted on 07/16/2003 9:34:55 PM PDT by homeschool mama
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To: Iowa Granny
The truth will out...
6 posted on 07/16/2003 9:36:48 PM PDT by Utah Girl
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To: Utah Girl
INTSUM!!!
7 posted on 07/16/2003 9:43:51 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: Utah Girl
Excellent article. Thanks for posting, friend.
8 posted on 07/16/2003 9:50:33 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: homeschool mama
Go back to the DOSE and read my last several post
9 posted on 07/16/2003 9:53:12 PM PDT by MJY1288 (Joseph Wilson is a fraud and the whole world needs to know it)
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To: JohnHuang2
I was really glad to read this article, it is good that at least one media outlet does its homework and research. The others are way too eager to nail President Bush and help the dim dems.
10 posted on 07/16/2003 9:55:04 PM PDT by Utah Girl
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To: Utah Girl
Good one!

BTTT!
11 posted on 07/16/2003 9:56:22 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Saddam Hussein has made the case against himself---President Bush, September 2002)
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To: Utah Girl
Exactly. I gather from this editorial Bush is setting the Democrats for a huge embarrassment ;-)
12 posted on 07/16/2003 9:57:49 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: dixiechick2000
Hi there :-)
13 posted on 07/16/2003 9:58:35 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Hey, big guy! Great to see you! How ya' been?
14 posted on 07/16/2003 10:04:51 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Saddam Hussein has made the case against himself---President Bush, September 2002)
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To: dixiechick2000
Great to see ya, too! Been fine, thanks :) Hope all is well with you and yours, too.
15 posted on 07/16/2003 10:54:10 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: Utah Girl
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946772/posts
The Uranium Files- Iraq, Mr. Bush... and more-
various FR links | 07-15-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
16 posted on 07/17/2003 1:23:41 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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To: Utah Girl
Brit Intel, Israeli Intel and the US Intel are the BEST in the world...we seem to be forgetting this. The LIBERAL media whores are trying to pull down MI5 just like they are pulling down our CIA.

Slick gutted and PC'd our CIA just like he PC'd and gutted our military.

17 posted on 07/17/2003 5:08:13 AM PDT by GailA (Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
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To: Utah Girl
Very well thought out and researched opinion piece. Of course, it is only that; opinion. The point that you seemed to have bypassed is not the language itsself contained within the released NIE excerpts, rather it is the continuing internal struggle occurring within the Bush admin between the the hawks of the DOD/NSA/Cheney flock and the Dept. of State. As you may have discovered during your evaluation of the NIE, as well as the subsequent reports of the fallout thereof, is that State and Energy were extrmelely crtical of the section pertaining to the attempted purchase of uranium from Niger. In the document's annex, you will find an assessment by State Department intellegence claiming that Iraq's pursuit of uranium in Africa "highly dubious". As you may recall, Bush aides have claimed that up unitl the last three weeks that no objections had been raised as to the content of the intellegence brieing until AFTER the Jan. 28 speech was given.
Taken logically, this evidence must point to a much more ominous conflagration concerning the Bush administration than that of so-called "liberal" media vs. Bush. The internal battle of the Rummy/Rice/Wolfowitz id against the diplomatically minded State Dept superego will prove, in my opinion, to be the most damaging, for not only the best interest of this fine country, but also the political longevity of the current administration lineup.
18 posted on 07/19/2003 12:07:29 PM PDT by Hume ("nobody cared if I died or went to El-Paso")
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