This will be my one …

This will be my one and only post that will be dedicated to this “tempest in a teapot” issue; the Iraq-Niger uranium intelligence, and whether or not Bush lied in his State of the Union address about it. Here’s the line causing all the nattering:

“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

Points to note:

• The British government, to this day, stands by their intelligence.
• The forged documents that have been widely discussed are not how the British determined this. Bush’s sentence does not refer to those documents

At some point in the future, if the British intelligence turns out to be bogus, only then would it be worth questioning if Bush & his staff knew that it was prior to the SOTU address. Until then, what he said is true on its face and does not require the parsing of individual words. In spite of what many news pundits are trying to do to the sentence, it does not depend on what the meaning of the word “British” is.

If you really want to go after Bush for lying, call him on his promise about only being in Bosnia for 12 months. Oh…wait. That was Clinton (and his Secretary of Defense William Perry, and his Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, and his Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Peter Tamoff).

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