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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (429844)	7/20/2003 1:13:18 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I haven't seen any messages by Watson for ever so long, a couple years now at least. do you think I am lying when I quote the SOTU? I think you are relying on the narrowest of technicalities. Actually since Junior said in the SOTU that the British Government had "learned" about the uranium when Junior knew they learned no such thing, he was lying explicitly not just technicly. I suppose if you quote his lies it is only some sort of hearsay lie. TP Message 19126819 <font color=brown> The other reason the inquiry is proceeding relates to the preposterous assertions by Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the famous 16 words were "technically" accurate because of the attribution to the British. This is false. In fact, the Bush speech hyped the claim by using the verb "learned" instead of simply using the word "said." It also fudged the significance of the allegation by saying the Iraqi effort had occurred "recently" when the only possible contact with Niger was in 1999. And it was simply incorrect when it used the phrase "significant quantities of uranium" when in fact there was no credible claim relating to quantity at all. </font>