Politics As Usual

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The British say they have sources suggesting that Iraqis went to Niger in 1999 to try to buy uranium. Not that they did buy it, or that it was even possible to get uranium out of flooded or French-controlled mines -- that this was their aim. We will never know if this "turns out to be right" because they're not sharing their sources.

"Correct" about what? That their sources said the Iraqis were trying, or that it was true? The latter is what matters now. We now control Iraq. We know their nuclear program was defunct. We have zero reason to believe there was any reason for Iraq to be trying to obtain uranium from Niger in 1999. Even if the 16 words in the State of the Union address were literally true, they are transparently irrelevant to any continuing justification for war.

I don't think the Brits are really adhering to the story that Iraq was trying to obtain uranium. They're just standing by their sources. What do you think Iraq was going to do with the uranium? Their nuclear program was defunct.

Presumably, the UK investigation saw the sources in reaching its conclusion. Assuming they did, in fact, seek to buy uranium, you don't think this is relavent? You would have us believe that they attempted to buy enriched uranium but did not have or were not planning to reconstitute a nukes program? So they tried to buy it for kicks?