http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html
President Delivers "State of the Union"
The U.S. Capitol
9:01 P.M. EST
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 28, 2003
Excerpt follows:
Paragraph 67 of 86:
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide.
Phil's note: I went to the online transcript of the President's State of the Union Address (see URL above) and copied the 67th paragraph with its second sentence intact.
That sentence in its unredacted entirety is as follows:
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
To this day Tony Blair stands behind his government's statement that Saddam Hussein sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
He notes the British analysis was secondly sourced.
Certain forged intelligence was planted to sabotage the president, perhaps by our great friends the French.
Be that as it may, Iraq and Niger go back twenty years in uranium deals, and Blair maintains the current dealings took place.
Democrats have distorted the matter, stooping to their standard trick of misquoting: they lop off the attribution to the British government in Democrat attack ads.
Democrats have succumbed to mass amnesia as well, forgetting they supported Clinton's attacks on Iraq in 1998. The contemporaneous statements of Kerry, Biden, Daschle et al cited Iraq's WMD threat.
There's also a great deal of Monday-morning ass-covering by unnamed CIA weasels, O Dear We Pleaded With The President Not To Use That--I think these CIA lowlifes should come forward and fall on their swords.
Add to this the breathtaking failure of George Tenet, the Clinton Director of Central Intelligence, to foresee and forestall the attacks on Continental United States (CONUS) by Osama bin Laden, and one sees a man with his pants on fire and no one to blame but himself.
He might blame his appointer, Clinton, who refused the offer of Osama bin Laden by Sudan three times beginning in 1995.
Tenet pronounced as dogma the meeting of 911 commander Mohammed Atta and Iraqi intelligence agent Al Ani in Prague did not occur--despite the insistence of the Czech government that it did.
Now come the 90% Democrat media to trumpet the smear of "Bush lied".
Lost in their banging of trashcans in the alley are the twin admissions of CIA that the progress of Iran and North Korea in processing their fuel rods into nuclear weapons material is more advanced than previously thought.
[Just remember August 1998 when the CIA said rogue nations wouldn't pose an ICBM threat for fifteen years, North Korea threw a Taepodong over Japan. CIA: Catastrophe Is Assured.]
In sum, the Democrats would have you believe, if they chop up sentence two of paragraph sixty-seven of a seven-month-old speech, you're more endangered by that than by 1) Iraq seeking enriched uranium; 2) Iran producing enriched uranium; 3) North Korea producing enriched uranium.
To review: Iraq, Iran, North Korea have revealed their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
QED (Quod Erat Demonstratum, thus it is shown): Bush was spot on with his Axis of Evil label for these three bad actors.
Phil Dragoo
Democrats have succumbed to mass amnesia as well, forgetting they supported Clinton's attacks on Iraq in 1998. The contemporaneous statements of Kerry, Biden, Daschle et al cited Iraq's WMD threat.
GREAT JOB. Hammer the bast@rds at every turn.