Ambassador Wison hits front page

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/08/international/worldspecial/08PREX.html


Bush Claim on Iraq Had Flawed Origin, White House Says
By DAVID E. SANGER


ASHINGTON, July 7 — The White House acknowledged for the first time today that President Bush was relying on incomplete and perhaps inaccurate information from American intelligence agencies when he declared, in his State of the Union speech, that Saddam Hussein had tried to purchase uranium from Africa.

The White House statement appeared to undercut one of the key pieces of evidence that President Bush and his aides had cited to back their claims made prior to launching an attack against Iraq in March that Mr. Hussein was "reconstituting" his nuclear weapons program. Those claims added urgency to the White House case that military action to depose Mr. Hussein needed to be taken quickly, and could not await further inspections of the country or additional resolutions at the United Nations

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1. 2nd Time!! FIRE his ass!!

This is the second major intelligence screwup in 3 years--either the whole "Homeland security office", which was supposed to "streamline analysis" screwed up, or--could it be--we have an incompetent in the highest office of the world?