White House Credibility Defense Shifting | AP

[ima_sinnic]

Posted on Mon, Jul. 21, 2003

JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The White House defense of President Bush's now-disavowed claim that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa has evolved over the last two weeks: blame others, stonewall, bury questions in irrelevant information and, above all, hope it will go away.

So far, none has worked.

In question: 16 words in Bush's Jan. 28 State of the Union speech: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

At issue: the credibility of the president's allegation that Saddam was rebuilding a nuclear weapons program. The assertion that Iraq was trying to buy uranium was a key component of that claim - and a key piece of Bush's justification for war. . . .

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/breaking_news/6350678.htm

I do wish the media would go beyond the one question about Niger and uranium and mention the 16 questions so forthrightly asked by Howard Dean, which pretty much reflect the 20 Lies About the War published in the UK Independent on July 13.

[Chico Man]

1. 20 lies link not working

I'd like to see that.

[ima_sinnic]

5. link is fixed now

thanks to DUer Maeve for PMing me what the problem was, saving me some time

[dbt]

2. Whoa! Time Warp!!

"blame others, stonewall, bury questions in irrelevant information and, above all, hope it will go away."

Did somebody exhume Nixxon?

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Rose Siding]

3. dupe- here's a link

renamed, but same story

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=25086&mesg_id=25086&page=

[papau]

4. Link to 20 lies below

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=424008

[tinnypriv]

6. Don't forget the 20 lies was cut from 36

The Independent didn't have enough space for all 36.

You can read them here: http://middleeastreference.org.uk/ios030711.html

[ima_sinnic]

8. excellent link, thanks

[damnraddem]

7. Plenty of lies to go around.

If only the newsmedia could get themselves into a feeding frenzy.

[HighJinx]

9. Putting it under the media nose

Many reporters' e-mail boxes are published at the end of their stories. But you need to send information to the top brass, too.