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reply posted on 12-7-2003 @ 04:01 AM by Tyriffic
Originally posted by astrocreep
While a firestorm erupted Tuesday over President Bush's supposedly false claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger for its nuclear weapons program, Prime Minister Tony Blair maintained that the Iraq-Niger nuke connection had indeed been verified by additional intelligence


"The evidence that we had that the Iraqi government had gone back to try to purchase further amounts of uranium from Niger did not come from these so-called 'forged' documents, they came from separate intelligence," Blair insisted, according to the BBC


Had it received any coverage in the U.S., the British leader's bombshell declaration would certainly take the wind out of efforts to discredit Bush based on the presumption that he lied about an Iraq-Niger nuke link in his State of the Union address this year.

Instead, American reporters continued to hint darkly of a Watergate-like scandal based on the president's single-sentence claim to Congress: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

The British prime minister's revelation also means the White House may have jumped the gun yesterday when it acknowledged that, because the Niger nuke documents were questionable, Bush shouldn't have cited the British intelligence finding during the high-profile speech.


www.newsmax.com.../7/9/130433



Exactly astro, Bush got jobbed on this big time. Thats why he isn't backing off. Tenet said today that the line in the State of Union should have been deleted.
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