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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I let my wife handle that stuff for me. I often feel guilty after she is done what she does to people. There have been a few times where I went back and apologized and reminded them not to piss her off again.
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LOL, whoa, remind me never to cross her (not that I ever would).
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I don't think trying to discredit the case for war was her job or her husband's. If that is what she wanted to do she should have submitted her resignation, and then took on her political cause.
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'Discredit the case for war' in plainer terms is seek the truth, actually.
It was her job to gather intelligence about threats to the US. It's her job to determine whether something is or isn't a thread. This OBVIOUSLY wasn't a threat, so she took an active role in finding proof of the truth.
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
the President did not lie. He did not make the [story] up. I think that is the problem. People associated with the CIA should not be [closely] connected to people calling the President a lier. Her husband could have [released] the information to a reporter anonymously, the same way others do.
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In early 2002, the CIA and State Department already knew the classified information about yellow cake from Africa was inaccurate. Marine General Carlton Fulford personally went to Niger and determined that there was little chance any of the uranium could have been sent to Iraq. He sent a report saying as much to the Chair of the Joint Chiefs. The US Ambassador to Niger came to the same conclusions and reported to the state department.
It wasn't until January 2003 that Bush made the statement in his State of the Union Address, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." This was long after everyone knew the intelligence was bullshit. Either Bush was left in the dark about something that coincidentally supported his wish to invade Iraqw (the odds of this are astronomical), or he deliberately used outdated and incorrect information to fool the American people into supporting the bullshit war.
Read about it yourself. Wiki actually has a really great page on it
here. I got a lot of my information from there and verified it with news articles published in the past 4-5 years. It's a good read.