White House Defense of Uranium Claim Produces Maze of Contradictions An AP News Analysis

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[TheOtherOne]

Guess with Kobe and all, this is just small stuff.

[Wright is right!]

"EDITOR'S NOTE - Jennifer Loven covers the White House for The Associated Press."

READER'S NOTE: Not very well. This is an old, dead, trumped-up story with no traction outside the capital beltway.

Michael

[Eva]

I guess the Democrats and the leftist press didn't believe Clinton either, when he stated on Larry King (this week)that their are always disagreements between security groups and that it was not surprising at all that a statement such as this would get into a speech. Clinton also mentioned that there was no doubt that Saddam possessed WMD when Clinton left office.

[Roughneck]

AP News Analysis. Isn't that called an Oxymoron?

[Redwood71]

"The White House attempt to defuse criticism over President Bush's now-discredited claim of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Africa"
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I am so sick of the White House allowing this to come out this way. He did not say Saddam was trying to buy uranium from Africa, he said Brittish intelligence has informed us that he was trying. They also informed us he was trying in 1985, and he did. The liberals are perpetrating a lie!

[MrConfettiMan]

The White House attempt to defuse criticism over President Bush's now-discredited claim of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Africa...

Now-discredited? Notice how this is simply stated as accepted fact by the AP. Their blatant bias is unbelievable. Well, actually it's not since so many people probably do believe it.

[mabelkitty]

They're a little miffed.

The Boyz really were killed, Pryor was voted out of committee (Specter still needs to go!), Lieberman winning in the polls, Hillary being sued.....

If I were a lib, I'd go back to bed, too.

[Semper Paratus]

Are they still on "Yellowcake"?

[mewzilla]

Real woman of the people is Jennifer. Click here and scroll down to see the tidbits about the houses they bought and sold a while ago. The phrase limosine liberal comes to mind.

[mewzilla]

Oh, and look who Ms. Loven is married to: Roger Ballentine is president of Green Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in energy and environmental issues, and was previously deputy assistant to President Clinton for environmental initiatives and chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force. He also sits on the board of directors of Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)along with actors Ed Begley, Jr. and Larry Hagman.

[mewzilla]

Not much conflict of interest there, is there?

[Mo1]

The White House attempt to defuse criticism over President Bush's now-discredited claim of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Africa has produced shifting explanations of how the assertion landed in his State of the Union speech.

It was not discredited .. The Brits still claim they were and I don't recall reading the French stating that Saddam wasn't trying to get it

[mewzilla]

Consider the source of this piece.

[Mo1]

I know .. I'm just tried of their lies

The public trust them to report the truth and they are abusing that trust

[mewzilla]

This is just another reason why I don't bother subscribing to either of my local rags: so much of both is just AP wire reports. And we all know what they're worth...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Is "news analysis" something new at AP?? Have they ever done this before???

[ravingnutter]

A second memo, sent on Oct. 6, elaborated on the CIA's doubts, describing "some weakness in the evidence," such as the fact that Iraq already had a large stock of uranium and probably wouldn't need more, Hadley said.

Everyone seems to be missing this tidbit...that made the war even MORE urgent than the statement that he "sought uranium".

[Damocles]

...along with actors Ed Begley, Jr. and Larry Hagman

Jeez, with company like this I think conflict of interest is not a strong enough term.

Nothing like a little objective reporting...

[mewzilla]

Just pays to consider the source. And with the internet it's very easy. Thank you, Al Gore! ;)