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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (17449)9/23/2004 9:04:18 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
So what you are saying, is that CBS substituted wrong story - with another.

President Bush did not mention the CIA's Niger documents in his State of the Union Address. Instead, he said: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." The British have investigated this, and still stand by the statement. Further, Amb. Wilson acknowledges that an Iraqi trade delegation did meet with Niger. Niger officials told Wilson that they didn't talk about Uranium, but Uranium is basiclly Niger's only major foreign export item. I've read that Uranium represents roughly 75% of Niger's export dollars, so the tie to Yellow cake doesn't require a rocket scientist.

"British intelligence on the claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger was "credible". There was not conclusive evidence Iraq actually purchased the material, nor did the government make that claim." - BBC report on the Butler Report, July 14, 2004

re:"In its rush to air its now discredited story about President George W. Bush’s National Guard service, CBS bumped another sensitive piece slated for the same “60 Minutes” broadcast: a half-hour segment about how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger."
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