At 01:07 PM 7/18/2003 -0400 Jon Gabriel wrote:
>Criticize him?!? If Bush had really lied to Congress so he could initiate
>an unjustified war, it would be more appropriate for us to push for his
>*impeachment* and felony prosecution under US law. Time will tell.
Huh?
Surely if the Bush Administration was going to lie, they could do much
better than a third rate, no, fifth-rate forgery that could be so blatantly
exposed.
As it is, we now know that the statement "The British have learned that
Saddam recently tried to acquire significant quantities of uranium from
Africa" was certainly true to the best of Bush's knowledge. There is no
"time will tell." The British certainly did, and indeed STILL DO, believe
that they had "learned" exactly that. Even if somehow, this is proved
false,it would signifiy nothing.
The British told us that Saddam was trying to acquire uranium. We tried
to independently confirm it - but couldn't. Of course, it isn't
particularly surprising that the British should have some diferent
intelligence sources than the US. Still, the British gave us the fullest
assurances that their intelligece was of high quality. Given all that -
wouldn't any of us have believed the British as well? And given the
importance of this intelligence, and the absence of an a priori security
reason to hide his intelligence, shouldn't the American people have had
this same informaion in forming their opinions on the Iraq war? Or do
you believe that the ush Administration should have acted on the best
intelligence provided by our allies - but hid it from the American people -
even without an a priori security reason for doing so?
Indeed, weren't all these same people clamoring back in January for the
Bush Administration to produce more of the evidence that the Administration
was using to make its decision on war with Iraq?????
JDG
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