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Originally posted by sgtclub
I (an many commentators, including liberal commentators) believe that the WH overreacted to all the critisism and just wanted to put the matter behind them.
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So we are down to the following sources for the notion that Iraq tried to obtain uranium from Niger: (1) A phony set of documents peddled to a bunch of European intelligence agencies, among others, and (2) some other source the British say they have about which they will tell us nothing. We also know that Iraq had no nuclear program, and that the mines in Niger were under French control and/or flooded.* And yet you cling to the notion that it was appropriate for Bush to go in front of the nation in the State of the Union address to try to scare people into going to war with a nation that we now know posed no threat to us. OK. Not even the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, previously noted for his willingness to carry the Administration's water on a variety of issues, agrees with you, but OK.
* Conservatives would ordinarily be trying to make something of this combination of factors -- more's the pity they can't here.
