Critics urge war inquiry

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This was the banner headline in the (print edition) Chicago Tribune this morning. I'm not sure we need another thread about yellowcake, but I'm posting this because it is significant that a conservative, mainstream newspaper chose to highlight the whole issue. They don't use the L word, but they give ample space to Waxman and Graham.

Drips turning to trickles...

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July 9, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Troubled by a White House admission that a prewar claim about Iraqi uranium purchases may have been false, critics intensified their demands Tuesday for an investigation into whether the Bush administration intentionally exaggerated intelligence to justify a war with Iraq.

The low-key White House comments late Monday night, backing off President Bush's assertion in his State of the Union address that Iraq sought to buy weapons-grade uranium in Africa, were seen as the latest erosion of the administration's prewar case for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

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"Did the president know about it?" asked Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting a closed-door review of prewar intelligence gathering and analysis. "Who decided this was something they could work with or use? How was it vetted?"

Rockefeller said it was "very clear to me" that the information about Iraq buying uranium from Africa "was discredited a long time ago" and he said the White House should have retracted its claim sooner. "The whole question of how that got in that speech has to be followed through," Rockefeller added.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0307090332jul09,1,5972886.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[RandomKoolzip]

1. "Spring is bustin' out all oh-ver!!"

I'm starting to feel very hopeful about impeachment. This story IS getting picked up by conservative outlets; The Tennessean hasn't put it on the front page, but open it up and you hear a lot of criticism of Bush.

[ZenLefty]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4346&mesg_id=4346&page=