April 30, 2004

Nevermind
Posted by McQ

I assume this will stay under the radar screen on the left after all the huffing and puffing about Bush's African uranium 'lie" in his State of the Union Address.

It was Saddam Hussein's information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as "Baghdad Bob," who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade -- an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium.

That's according to a new book Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who was sent to Niger by the CIA in 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq had been trying to buy enriched "yellowcake" uranium. Wilson wrote that he did not learn the identity of the Iraqi official until this January, when he talked again with his Niger source.

Really?

So much for that "lie".

Hmm ... wonder if the left, in their best Emily Latella, can say 'nevermind'.

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So why did the admin let Joe get their goat?
If there was nothing there, they sure lost their cool.

Posted by: william at April 30, 2004 11:52 PM

Well gee, William ... maybe because what Joe inferred before was untrue. Would that get YOUR goat?

Posted by: McQ at May 1, 2004 07:22 AM

Wilson reported that Iraq had not purchased any uranium from Niger, but his mission was to investigate whether Iraq had attempted to purchase it. Either Wilson failed his mission by not discovering that the attempt had been made, or else he deliberately skewed his report. I'm sure if I did something like that on the job, it would've gotten my boss's goat.

Posted by: Steverino at May 1, 2004 07:35 AM

Wilson pooh-poohs the defense that what the leakers did might not be legal... Oh yeah, God forbid the law be taken into account while trying to score political points. The man is a clown.

Posted by: HH at May 3, 2004 05:50 PM

Wilson pooh-poohs the defense that what the leakers did might not be illegal... Oh yeah, God forbid the law be taken into account while trying to score political points. The man is a clown.

Posted by: HH at May 3, 2004 05:51 PM