LIVE THREAD: Tony Blair Arrives in U.S. & Addresses Congress

www.freerepublic.com | July 17, 2003

[Howlin]

C-SPAN LIVE FEED

[ravingnutter]

Blair is not expected to address or take questions on the uranium matter.

To the media or to Congress? Surely he won't get by with not addressing Congress on the matter. I guess we'll just have to wait to see if Daschle is deeply, deeply saddened when he comes out of the session.

[rwfromkansas]

Yikes.....while it is an online poll, that is so skewed it has to be parly due to actual American sentiment. The Administration has got to get things turned around.

And I do not see Blair helping us much today....I will be surprised if he makes any public statements defending us at all.

[MEG33]

Frost ..lying when it's politically convenient? I'm saddened...;)

[MEG33]

The CNN polls are like that..!!I don't know who's organized the hits ..but it's organized.

[Howlin]

It's going to be on C-SPAN for sure; probably the other networks, too.

[gop212]

That poll is already way beyond repair possibility.

[Carolinamom]

My guess is that Hillary will be wearing her Chiquita Bananna yellow pantsuit..........for attention.

[Republican Red]

Great theories from "MJY1288" on another thread from last night

post 231:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/947473/posts?page=245#245

here is what I think will be uncovered

Fisrt of all, The U.S. government had more than just the forged document to base their assumption that Saddam was trying to strike a deal for "Yellow Cake" (Uranium Oxide) and since the MI6 would not share what they knew, the CIA was not comfortable with confirming the intel they had.

Sometime early last year a Document was purchased that appeared to show a Uranium deal between Iraq and Niger. the document was shared with the State Department, the CIA and the DCI, it was openly shared with the U.N. and later determined to be a forgery, but the key is, the CIA DID NOT recieve the info of the forgery until after the President gave the SOTU speech

Here is the rub....... Dick Cheney inquired about Iraq's attempts to purchase "Yellow Cake" from Africa long before the forged document was purged, the CIA sent Joseph Wilson at the request of his wife Valerie Plame to investigate this possibility despite the fact that Joseph Wilson had absolutely no experience in this type of work.

This is where politics got in the mix, Joe Wilson and his wife saw this as an opportunity to do a little fact finding of their own because someone in the CIA was holding back on reporting they had a forged document and after Joe Wilson returned and gave his verbal report that said Niger was in the clear, it was time to forward the forgery info to the CIA and the White House, problem is, that info didn't go through the process until after GWB gave his SOTU speech and verified by the U.N as a forgery

IMHO the Administration was tipped off of the forged document and that is why Colin Poweel didn't use it in his presentation to the U.N., but it was too late because the document was already in the U.N report and the IAEA chairman (Alberday) used it against us right after Powell was done his speech. That is when the brew ha ha started.

The Dems had their report from Wilson and a forged document presented in a report and the plan was to wait until the right time to make a big deal of it. The White House got tipped about Wilson's OpEd going to published in the NYT's and Ari Fliesher fired off the memo to the NYT's and the Wash Post that they should'nt have used those 16 words in the SOTU knowing it was cause a firestorm, but the White House has been one step in front of them and now it's time for the squeeze play :-)

That's my story and I'm sticking to it :-)


Post 390:
Good Morning, The key to this whole deal is Joseph Wilson and his wife, "the former Valerie Plame" (what ever the hell "the former" means)

Considering that she is an operative in the CIA and works in the area of "Nuclear Proliferation" tells me she is involved. Why did the CIA have the Bogus document for almost a year and nobody figured out it was a forgery? That makes absolutely no sense. I think the CIA was aware they had a problem from within and that's why Jack Straw made the comment he did in his latest press release, he said they couldn't share the Intel with us "For Good Reasons" "(for which I have addressed in private session)" since when has the British not been able to share Intel with us?

I think Bill, Hillary, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame and Terry McAuliffe are going to get exposed for this scam and I'm not sure of the illegalities, but it's serious

post 393:

Good morning! I am so sorry I went to bed last night before you started laying out your theory! I find it all highly plausible, especially the McAuliffe connection, given that before Tenet released his statement McAuliffe yelled out the window of his very expensive SUV at Bryan Wilson of Fox News, "Bush is going down!"

piasa has been investigating this from another angle, and also thinks South Africa may never have removed all their nuclear weapons like they were supposed to have done when they disarmed several years ago. He thinks South Africa might have been the actual source of the uranium, and that this is why they offered, if you will remember, to send their crack disarmament team to Iraq before the war. Also, the guy who has just been named to head the team that is set to go into Iraq now is a Greek who was in charge of the UN's inspection of South Africa.

If Niger was a red herring (remember, no one ever said Niger in the speech) and if the uranium came from South Africa, this would explain why after meeting with Bill Clinton Nelson Mandela turned on Bush and started those wild accusations including calling him a racist. If Clinton knew about the Niger document scam, and he also knew about the uranium sale from South Africa (through Chirac) then he could have given Mandela a heads up and "encouraged" him to attack Bush.

I need charts and lists. I am now having to rely too much on my memory of events, and this is not always the best method! LOL

[MEG33]

It always is by the time someone posts it.

[Howlin]

Perhaps she will wear this one:

[Mo1]

Got it

BTW .. do ya think she will wear a sweater with it?

[justshe]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[GranpaVet]

Wow! Its running 91% to 9% the WRONG way.

[Mo1]

Posting pictures huh?? ... LOL

[Baseballguy]

Where is the link. How dare you tease me like that.

[cc2k]

Sometime early last year a Document was purchased that appeared to show a Uranium deal between Iraq and Niger. the document was shared with the State Department, the CIA and the DCI, it was openly shared with the U.N. and later determined to be a forgery, but the key is, the CIA DID NOT recieve the info of the forgery until after the President gave the SOTU speech

The problem with this part of your story is that the "forged documents" were so poorly forged that just reading them once, you would know that they were forgeries.

The were discussing these documents on one of the news networks this morning (CNN or MSNBC or maybe Fox). Apparently the Italians have made the documents public and the were published in an Italian newspaper or someplace like that. One document dated in 1999 or 2000 had the signature of an official of the government of Niger who left office in 1989. Another document dated in 1999 had reference to events that occured in 2000 as though those events in 2000 had already occurred. The documents weren't forgeries, they were bad jokes.

[Semper Paratus]

Check NRO online today to get the skinny on Joe Wilson.
A contributer to Nation and a committed arabist.

[Carolinamom]

do you think she'll wear a sweater with it?

Who knows? Her fashion sense is so static. Her book fame and tours have shown her in colors other than black. I've noticed that she's fond of pink w/black for her semi-macho look.

[kitkat]

She wears aqua or yellow when she's sure she won't be photographed standing up. Or when she can arrange a tasteful table just below the waist. If she has to stand to applaud when Blair enters, she'll be wearing the trusty, rusty black pantsuit to hide the hips, and a yellow blouse for attention.

Howlin, thanks for thee ping.

[Howlin]

Listen, since you and I are being copied and pasted, I'm thinking of doing a little something like this:

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Maybe you should do it, too, and we could donate the money to Free Republic.

:-)