I was just reading Captain Ed's take on this, good stuff. http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/
On February 4, 2003, the U.S. government provided copies of the Niger uranium documents to the IAEA with talking points which stated, "two streams of reporting suggest Iraq has attempted to acquire uranium from Niger. We cannot confirm these reports and have questions regarding specific claims. Nonetheless, we are concerned that these reports may indicate Baghdad has attempted to secure an unreported source of uranium yellowcake for a nuclear weapons program." The two streams of reporting refer to the intelligence reports from the foreign intelligence service and a CIA intelligence report reflecting the findings of a former Ambassador's visit to Niger. And then this: The Committee examined the assessments from the Intelligence Community on the topics discussed in the NIE produced prior to and following the NIE. In most cases, the opinions of the community and individual agencies did not change following the publication of the NIE or following the 2002-2003 United Nations' inspections in Iraq. The community judgement did change pertaining to the intended use of the Iraq's UAVs. Specifically, the NIE judgement that Iraq's attempts to procure U.S. mapping software for its UAVs that was useless outside the U.S., "strongly suggests that Iraq is investigating the use of these UAVs for missions targeting the United States." A change was made to the UAV judgements in a new NIE published in January 2003 titled Nontraditional Threats to the US Homeland Through 2007. Oh, and as for the geographical center: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Age_of_Caliphs.gif On 9/8/06, Gruss Gott wrote: > No. I'm surprised you don't know more given all of the unbiased media > you consume. > > I guess you must have been in the potty when Cheney justified the > Iraqi war by saying that Iraq was the "geographical center" of > "terrorist enemies who've attacked us for years and on 9/11". Turns > out no so much. > > This bi-partisan report says that Bush and Cheney were told, with no > uncertainty, that Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism. Yet they > stood in front of America and said it did. Bush did just last week in > fact. > > In other news from the Whitehouse: Cheney didn't inhale, disputes your > definition of "is", and did not have sexual relations with that girl > (Katherine Harris) > > Oh. And Gay people are possessed by demon spirits and support the > 9/11 attackers. They also took your mojo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:215078 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
