Bush Recantation of Iraq Claim Stirs Calls for Probes (WP)

[kainah]

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 9, 2003; Page A20


Democrats called for investigations yesterday after the White House acknowledged Monday that President Bush should not have said in his State of the Union address last January that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa.

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Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), chairman of the Republican Conference, praised the administration for being forthright. "I think they had the best information that they thought, and it was reliable at the time that the president said it," Santorum told reporters. "It has since turned out to be, at least according to the reports that have been just released, not true," he said. "The president stepped forward and said so," he continued, "I think that's all you can expect."

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) also defended Bush's approach, telling reporters that it is "very easy to pick one little flaw here and one little flaw there." He defended the U.S.-led war against Iraq as "morally sound, and it is not just because somebody forged or made a mistake. . . . The Democrats can try all they want to undermine that, but the American people understand it and they support it."

At the White House yesterday, officials stressed that Bush's assertions in the State of the Union address did not depend entirely on discredited documents about Niger but also referred to intelligence contained in a still-classified September 2002 national intelligence estimate that listed two other countries, identified yesterday by a senior intelligence official as Congo and Somalia, where Iraq allegedly had sought uranium. That information, however, has been described as "sketchy" by intelligence officials, and the British parliamentary commission said it had not been proven.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29766-2003Jul8.html?nav=hptop_ts

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1. "The president stepped forward and said so,

he (Santorum) continued, "I think that's all you can expect."

No, actually, I expect the President to tell the truth. Call me insensitive, but is that really so f*cking unrealistic?

[Frances]

10. Actually the president did not step forward himself to say so

One of his flunkies did.

[kainah]

13. good point, Frances

I think evidence of how serious this has become is the incredibly defensive comments of the right.

[baffie]

2. DeLay barfs me out with his...

it is "very easy to pick one little flaw here and one little flaw there."

Just a little flaw ... that led to thousands of deaths. No, but mentioning thousands of deaths would be nitpicking, wouldn't it? :(

[ozymandius]

9. "one little flaw here and one little flaw there"

Impeach him too for being an enabler! I suppose that everything is just fine since no Daisy Cutter bomb was dropped in his district or that his family was not blown apart while shopping for groceries!

Are you a Proud American, Tom DeLay, for the crimes your President has ordered?

[BeatleBoot]

3. At least Bush didn't lie...

about sex...that would be impeacheable!

[sandnsea]

Now we have three dubious sources

and Bush went ahead and said it anyway. More proof that he doesn't care about facts.

[rocketdem]

4. I thought that Santorum was anti-gay?

He sure falls to his knees quickly whenever Bush needs a little boost.

Delay is truly a national treasure. No matter what happens you can expect him to fly the partisan flag as rabidly as ever. I am sure that if Bush were literally caught with a smoking gun in his hand, Delay would claim that a Kennedy had actually snuck up and pulled the trigger.

[Tansy_Gold]

5. I think Tom Delay has the same speechwriter as

Bob Boudelang.

In fact, everytime I see a picture of Delay I don't recognize him. I expect him to LOOK like Bob B, too.

What a pesticidal maniac.

[Nottingham]

6. Tom Tom! That little flaw we Went Declared War on a Nation

Just a small thing! A Premptive War. costing Billions and lives

and wheres the cheap oil prices?????

But you guys were so upset about a Blow job in the oval office.


:bounce: Oh No Tom! The Bush administration's crediblity is down the tubes!

[The Magistrate]

7. Santorum And DeLay Are Grotesque

Santorum knows perfectly well the information was known to be a forgery at the time the jackanapes lied in his State of the Union speech: it was not the best information they had at the time that they thought was accurate --- it was a lie that was known to be a lie at the time the lie was made to the people of our country.

Even DeLay knows this is not a little flaw: the lie that there was a real threat of a nuclear weapon in Hussein's hands was essential to convincing the people of our country this thing had to be done --- to do this, a lie that was known to be a lie at the time it was made to the people was told, and DeLay knows it.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

8. So, I guess invading a country under false pretense is NOT bad?

Wow! What surprising news to hear excuses from two narrow minded asshole Repuke scumbags...

I guess this whole situation would be different in their eyes only if Bush was receiving a blowjob while simultaneously lying during the State of the Union address.

On another issue...anyone surprised that we're not hearing calls for investigation from Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt, and the other "shadow-Repuke" pseudo-Democrats?

I want political BLOOD spilled, damn it!

JB

[Mari333]

11. How many soldiers are dead now

over 200? and how many civilians?

someone, somewhere, please start the Impeachment.

[alcuno]

14. Officially? 216 Americans, 255 "Coalition"

http://www.pigstye.net/iraq/wd.php

[diamond14]

12. also depended on a plagiarized CA grad students thesis, written

some twelve years ago, and therefore, not possibly applicable to the situation in Iraq today...plus, at any University, plagiarism will get you expelled....


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plagiarize

copy something from other person’s work: to take something that somebody else has written or thought and try to pass it off as original

[Trajan]

15. Walter Pincus ....

RIGHT in the THICK of it ! ....

I know some have doubts about Pincus, but there has been NO more prolific writer or steady defender of the TRUTH since Fratboy and his PNAC ilk started their greedy juggernaut ....

and dont forget: .. Condi publically lied about this issue as well, just last month ..... It appears that the "national security advisors" stridently objected to the Niger letter's inclusion in the SOTU address during the meetings .... and I think that would be Condi's bailiwick ...

Bush is in DEEP trouble .....


Until further notice: ... Pincus is my personal messiah .....

I am NOT worthy ! ...
I am NOT worthy ! ...

[Skip Intro]

16. "Just because somebody forged or made a mistake..."????!!!!!!!!

Forgery is NOT a mistake, you f***ing hypocritical murderer!

This disgusting parsing and "aw shucks" attitude from the cowardly warhawks - while thousands have already died, and more are dying daily, while alliances this nation has cultivated over decades have been rudely and arrogantly tossed aside, while the government "of the people for the people" has hurriedly built walls of concealment, while we almost overnight went from a nation of justice and fairness to a nation of first-strike agressiveness - UGRH!!!!!

This blatant crap flowing from one of the most anti-American of the traitorous regime now in charge of OUR country is just too gd much.

I refuse to believe the laws of reality will allow this lopsided bulls**t situation to continue.

What is the punishment for treason anyway?

[anamandujano]

17. I think it was forthright of President Clinton

to admit he mislead us about Miss Lewinsky (after he had no choice--like Bush).

[Obsolete]

18. We're not the "American People"

Notice this part of the quote from Tom Delay?

"...The Democrats can try all they want to undermine that, but the American people understand it and they support it."

Implying, of course, that Democrats aren't American. ALL of the admin sycophants (esp. Ari) use this technique. :mad: