first from the document above
Quote:
None of the new information suggests Iraq ever nailed down a deal to buy uranium, and the Senate report makes clear that US intelligence analysts have come to doubt whether Iraq was even trying to buy the stuff. In fact, both the White House and the CIA long ago conceded that the 16 words shouldn’t have been part of Bush’s speech.
But what he said – that Iraq sought uranium – is just what both British and US intelligence were telling him at the time. So Bush may indeed have been misinformed, but that's not the same as lying.
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and now i'll spare quoting other articles:
ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/U...laweddocs.html
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/16/fbi.niger/
Washington Times
http://washingtontimes.com/national/...0154-5384r.htm
How about Time
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/k...463779,00.html
Or CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in562312.shtml
BBC has lots of quotes i'll post a few
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3051709.stm
Quote:
28 January 2003
"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
US President George W Bush's State of the Union address
7 March 2003
"Based on thorough analysis, the IAEA has concluded, with the concurrence of outside experts, that these documents - which formed the basis for the reports of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger - are in fact not authentic.
We have therefore concluded that these specific allegations are unfounded."
UN nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei's report to the UN Security Council
8 July 2003
"The president's statement was based on the predicate of the yellow cake [uranium] from Niger.
So given the fact that the report on the yellow cake did not turn out to be accurate, that is reflective of the president's broader statement."
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer
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There we have it from the white house spokesman himself.
The documents were fake there is no disputing this. The signature was from someone who hadn't been in power for many years. The dates in it were all inconsistent, ect. Tuns of flaws in those documents.