> From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What concerns me more is that there is a very > > thorough system for reviewing > > anything that the U.S. president says in public, and > > I'm confident that > > similar procedures are in place in the U.K. and > > Australia. I'm quite a bit > > more familiar with the system than most people, > > thanks to some of my > > previous work. I have a very, very hard time > > believing the account offered > > by the administration, unless something has gone > > quite wrong with the system > > by which the intelligence community delivers its > > products to the executive > > branch... in three countries. > > > > Nick > > Of course, there's _also_ the fact that what he said > was true. He claimed that the British told us that > Iraq was seeking Uranium in Africa. A true statement. > The British do, in fact, _still_ claim that Iraq was > seeking Uranium in Africa - they stand by the claim. > A doubly true statement. Finally, the WSJ (on > www.opinionjournal.com) has just printed excerpts from > the National Intelligence Estimate used to prepare the > claim - and it too is quite convincing. A triply true > statement. The Bush Administration is not always > perfectly truthful, but in this instance they were > exactly that - yet the mass media and Democratic > partisans have managed to convince almost everyone > that the Administration was lying, when it was, in > fact, telling the truth. And people wonder why > conservatives talk about media bias. Let alone the > selfish partisanship of lying to discredit the > President during wartime on the very issue of going to > war, knowing that your lies will be picked up and > believed by a gullible world all too eager to believe > the worst of the United States. Shame on everyone > involved. Shame on the Adminstration for not > defending itself better, and even more on those who > slander it for their own partisan advantage or sheer malice.
Except for the fact that the CIA pulled the very same information from a an earlier speech by W., three months _before_ the state of the union address, because they thought it was false. They sent someone to Africa to determine if it was true, and determined it was not. Whoever put the 16 words into the speech knew those 16 were false, and therefore committed a felony by lying to the congress in a required document. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
