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January 18, 2006
Grim Fairy Tales from the White House
The latest word on the lies of the Bush administration to get us into war is as follows:
A high-level intelligence assessment by the Bush administration concluded in early 2002 that the sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq was "unlikely" because of a host of economic, diplomatic and logistical obstacles, according to a secret memo that was recently declassified by the State Department.
Among other problems that made such a sale improbable, the assessment by the State Department's intelligence analysts concluded, was that it would have required Niger to send "25 hard-to-conceal 10-ton tractor-trailers" filled with uranium across 1,000 miles and at least one international border.
The analysts' doubts were registered nearly a year before President Bush, in what became known as the infamous "16 words" in his 2003 State of the Union address, said that Saddam Hussein had sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
However, we are supposed to believe that all the WMD stories were the result merely of "faulty intelligence," no data was manipulated by the White House, and no one is responsible for any of the lies. We are also, at a certain age, supposed to believe in Santa Claus, too; but we're expected to mature beyond the point of believing such absurdities. A large number of Americans, unfortunately, still believes in Santa Bush and his fairy tales.
Posted by Mike Tennant at January 18, 2006 02:15 PM
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