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To: Win Smith who wrote (104750)	7/11/2003 2:36:51 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

To be fair and absolutely logical, I think people of the left and the right can make mistakes when it comes to inter-continental humor. What we have here is a failure to communicate- I'd LIKE to think liberals are kinder more gentler communicators, and less prone to jumping to conclusions and getting all het up about it, but I'm afraid that might be pure prejudice on my part. :-) now i'm wondering, was this post heat or light? And aren't those two things related? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

To: Win Smith who wrote (104750)	7/11/2003 4:14:16 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bad move by Bush, blaming the CIA for his own lies. There is no way the Intelligence community is going to meekly take the blame. This will increase the rate of leaks: Bush: CIA Approved State of Union Speech By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) -- President Bush and his national security adviser on Friday put responsibility squarely on the CIA for the president's erroneous claim in his State of the Union address that Iraq tried to acquire nuclear material from Africa. "I gave a speech to the nation that was cleared by the intelligence services," Bush told reporters in Uganda. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice was more direct, saying, "The CIA cleared the speech in its entirety." If CIA Director George Tenet had concerns about the information, "these doubts were not communicated to the president," Rice said. The deepening controversy has undermined administration efforts to quiet doubts about the president's justifications for going to war. The United States said military action was justified, in part, because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but no such weapons have been found. The concerted White House offensive, following comments on Thursday from Secretary of State Colin Powell, raised new questions about the ability of Tenet, a holdover from the Clinton administration, to survive the controversy. Rice said Tenet "absolutely" had the president's confidence. Still, she expressed dismay that information on alleged attempts by Saddam Hussein to buy uranium "yellowcake" from Niger - intelligence that turned out to be based on forged documents - had found its way into a major presidential speech after being vetted by the CIA. Yellowcake is a powered form of uranium used in making nuclear weapons. customwire.ap.org