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Joe wilson
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Originally posted by sgtclub
Dissent. See the Lord Butler report.
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Please see this. The report to which you refer does not suggest that Wilson was wrong or that Iraq actually was buying yellowcake -- it only suggests that the intelligence people had some basis to be concerned about it at the time. You can use this to defend the state of mind of people in the White House -- arguably they weren't lying -- but it does not change the facts that (a) Iraq was not acquiring Niger yellowcake, (b) the White House and the CIA now say the 16 words should not have been the State of the Union address, and (c) Wilson was fundamentally right to expose the fact that the White House was scaring people with misinformation.
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