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Edited on Wed Jul-09-03 07:47 AM by DrBB
...seems to be on Capitol Hill Blue--the story quoting a CIA consultant named Wilkinson who claims he was present at two meetings when the Nitwit was informed of the unreliability of the uranium allegation. Acc. to Wilkinson, the Dimmy said, "If the CIA can't substantiate this, find me someone who can" or words to that effect. If it pans out, then ShitHead ain't gonna get off the hook. So far I haven't seen any other sources pick it up.
T'other question--how much did this story matter? Obviously those of us on this side of the political fence have been pushing its significance, since it's the weak link. But there's no question that Condi's "Nuclear mushroom cloud" image got a LOT of play (well before the SOTUS) and that the nuclear fear was the kicker, the thing that put that ol' electric zing into the whole marketing effort. They had lots of other allegations, but this one I think was critical to THEM at least, in this sense. The killer app. It wasn't sufficient all by itself, but without it neither were the other allegations. The period at the end of the sentence. The card they could play to trump any disagreement. I dunno if you can gauge how much it mattered to the public at large, but I KNOW it mattered to them.
From a marketing standpoint--and that's how they were thinking of this--it was critical to the campaign.
edit: changed subject header. don't like to do that, but the other wasn't descriptive.
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