http://www.nytimes.com/financialtimes/business/FT1087373295002.html
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Sweet mint tea, anyone?
Well now......
I guess the classifieds were full.
Thanks for retrieving that from the business section!
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Yeah Page 12 Z Arts and Entertainment section, LOL.
Oh, tie some yellowcake around the old oak tree, it's been two long years ...!
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Am I misunderstanding something here? Isn't this a really big story? I mean, like screaming headline big?
Now that's a damn shame. How many of the lefts assertions against President Bush have been proven to be BS? Who keeps score?
the real concern is why haven't we gone after niger if they are actively trying to sell uranium on the black market??
Do we have a universal name and password for the NYT? I don't want to register, but I sure would like to download a copy of this for a commie colleague.
At the next White House news conference, this story should be blown up poster sized and displayed for all to see.
And didn't Wilson and his 'outed' spy wife just appear on a tv show, this past week, trashing Bush for 'faulty intelligence' on this very issue? It's a well managed smear campaign and I wish Bush would take off the gloves NOW!
thanks for this important post. it looks like bush and the cia will eventually be vindicated by history.
truly amazing how the NYT buried this!
And you were surprised? Hell no one is EVER going to admit that Bush was right because then Kerry is toast...Hopefully it will be trumpeted but who knows at this point?
In other words, Bush was an idiot for believing the intelligence, but the intelligence was true.
Since Niger is a center for illicit uranium smuggling, does it not occur to anyone that smugglers might use fake documents?
What this article says is that, during the long months that Bush was taking it on the chin for his (true) charge of Iraqi interest in uranium, the Euro agencies that knew his charges to be true remained silent. The joke is that Iraq's interest in uranium wasn't even secret, and was not dependent on classified sources; Iraq's trade mission to Niger was public knowledge.
It is the active existence of Nigerienne smuggling rings that was not public knowledge, but whose existence was well known among the agencies who were paid to know such things.
Everyone it seems, except the CIA, who seemed to have needed the services of a self-aggrandizing liar, who managed to spend a week in the country without finding what everyone else seems to have already known. Illicit uranium mines were open for business.
"Officials said the fake documents, which emerged in October 2002 and have been traced to an Italian with a record for extortion and deception, added little to the picture gathered from human intelligence and were only given weight by the Bush administration."
As I recall President Bush attributed the information about Iraq's efforts to obtain yellowcake from Nigeria to UK intelligence in his SOTU address - he didn't mention anything about a document. Why is this misinformation still continuing. The media has said it so many times that now it has become defacto truth among the libs/dems. Are they that intellectually dishonest or just that stupid?