New Niger/uranium tale flops

[fearnobush]

Posted on Wed, Jul. 21, 2004

New Niger/uranium tale flops
BY TRUDY RUBIN
Knight Ridder Newspapers

(KRT) - Did the Bush administration mislead the country to war by hyping evidence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?

That question hangs in the air after the devastating Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's performance. It is bound to stay a hot topic through election season.

So Bush supporters are trying to change the story line.

The new story - as promoted by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, conservative columnists and some of my readers - goes like this: The president was right about WMD.

How so? Because the Senate report raised questions about the Feb. 2002 mission to Niger of Joe Wilson. He is the former diplomat dispatched by the CIA to check whether Iraq had contracted to purchase uranium from the African country of Niger.

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[myopic4141]

1. As I recall.

The items about Wilson and his wife were not part of the report itself; but, a summary signed on to by the Republican leadership of the committee. If this is true, then the report is nothing; but, a Republican white wash job to cover up Shrubby's malfeasance. The Republicans are acting as they did during the initial stages of Watergate when they tried to hide Nixon's being a crook and Reagan's "Iran amok scam".

[fearnobush]

3. Yes it is and the Media eats it up, but suddenly they got real quite.

If this was nepotism, Plame hardly did her husband a favor. We are not talking trips to Paris here. And there obviously were no CIA rules against sending an agent's relative on a non-secret mission - otherwise, Wilson wouldn't have been cleared.

[myopic4141]

4. I just learned.

Only the sending of Wilson was in the "Addition views" section and not the non effect that the visit had.

[xchrom]

2. what can you expect from the party of

mass exaggerations?

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