LIAR! LIAR! PANTS ON FIRE! HANG YOUR PANTS ON A TELEPHONE WIRE!!!!
The article you copied was from July of 2003. Various Congrssional bodies have since discredited Wilson, and his report. It didn’t help that Wilson has contradicted himself, numerous times, or that he obviously lied about the most basic, easily-verifiable, elements of his trip.
Found this part interesting, its in the Niger section, just search for CRAZY
The former ambassador’s wife told Committee staff that when CPD decided it would like to send the former ambassador to Niger, she approached her husband on behalf of the CIA and told him “there’s this crazy report” on a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq.
LIAR! LIAR! PANTS ON FIRE! HANG YOUR PANTS ON A TELEPHONE WIRE!!!!
The article you copied was from July of 2003. Various Congrssional bodies have since discredited Wilson, and his report. It didn’t help that Wilson has contradicted himself, numerous times, or that he obviously lied about the most basic, easily-verifiable, elements of his trip.
But you didn’t respond to Gen. Carlton W. Fulford Jr.’s conclusions:
A four-star general, who was asked to go to Niger last year to inquire about the security of Niger’s uranium, told The Washington Post yesterday that he came away convinced the country’s stocks were secure. The findings of Marine Gen. Carlton W. Fulford Jr. were passed up to Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—though it was unclear whether they reached officials in the White House.
In an interview, Fulford said he came away “assured” that the supply of “yellowcake” was kept secure by a French consortium. Both Fulford, then deputy commander of the U.S. European Command and his commander, Air Force Gen. Joseph Ralston, said the issue did not surface again, although they were both routinely briefed on weapons proliferation in Africa. “I was convinced it was not an issue,” Fulford said.
Fulford was asked by the U.S. ambassador to Niger, BarbroOwens-Kirkpatrick, to join her at the meeting with Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja on Feb. 24, 2002. “I was asked to impress upon the president the importance that the yellowcake in Niger be under control,” Fulford said. “I did that. He assured me. He said the mining operations were handled through a French consortium” and therefore out of the Niger government’s control. Owens-Kirkpatrick, reached by phone, declined to comment.
Fulford’s impressions, while not conclusive, were similar to those of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who traveled to Niger for the CIA in February 2002 to interview Niger officials about the uranium claim and came away convinced it was not true.
If you read the senate Committee report, it specifically states that the meeting between Fulford/kirkpatrick and the Nigerian President was a general Discussision and that they never brought up any questions about whether any countries had approached the Nigerian Government for the sale of Uranium
So I have heard that Bush was told WMDs were in Iraq by the Intelligence community; so when he told the Nation we needed to invade and occupy Iraq because of the threat of WMDs (he never mentioned that it was because Sadaam murders his citizens) he was just going by what the Intelligence community told him.
President Bush Addresses the Nation
The Oval Office
10:16 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.
Last year, the U.N. Commission on Human rights found that Iraq continues to commit “extremely grave violations” of human rights and that the regime’s repression is “all pervasive.” Tens of thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, summary execution, and torture by beating, burning, electric shock, starvation, mutilation, and rape. Wives are tortured in front of their husbands; children in the presence of their parents — all of these horrors concealed from the world by the apparatus of a totalitarian state.
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If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will cease persecution of its civilian population, including Shi’a, Sunnis, Kurds, Turkomans and others — again as required by Security Council resolutions.
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The United States has no quarrel with the Iraqi people, who have suffered for too long in silent captivity. Liberty for the Iraqi people is a great moral cause and a great strategic goal. The people of Iraq deserve it and the security of all nations requires it. Free societies do not intimidate through cruelty and conquest and open societies do not threaten the world with mass murder. The United States supports political and economic liberty in a unified Iraq.
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His regime once ordered the killing of every person between the ages of 15 and 70 in certain Kurdish villages in Northern Iraq. He has gassed many Iranians and 40 Iraqi villages.
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If we fail to act in the face of danger, the people of Iraq will continue to live in brutal submission.
