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

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (691299)	7/11/2005 1:30:37 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Who cares about the (possible) personal motivations of any of the actors in this little episode? What difference would any of that make to the larger, more important question: was the administration correct when they told the American public (and the world, at the UN) that 'Saddam was actively seeking uranium in Africa'? Since the administration has subsequently withdrawn those words (not to mention the various separate actions debunking the source documents as frauds...), and admitted their conclusions were incorrect, then I believe there is no longer any dispute over the fact that what was claimed was false. The larger issue of national interest trumps minor personal matters everytime.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (691299)	7/11/2005 1:38:01 PM
From: ThirdEye	Respond to of 769667

I'm not going to argue point by point with you about this. It's either going to get sorted out or not. But your writer is a little self-serving with some of the facts, such as when or how Wilson could have known the documents re Niger were fake. They had already been called fake by the UN well before the CIA publicly agreed. So Wilson didn't need to have seen a CIA report before calling them fake himself. And once again, even if leaking Plame's name was for the purpose of impugning Wilson's credibility, somehow that purpose was not accomplished. The act has backfired.