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Withheld Iraq report blamed on French By Michael Smith LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON — The French secret service is believed to have refused to allow Britain's MI6 to give the United States "credible" intelligence showing that Iraq was trying to buy uranium ore from Niger, U.S...

Bush To Personally Verify Future CIA Reports (2003-07-11) -- In an effort to make sure all of his public statements are accurate, U.S. President George Bush said today that he will personally verify all CIA reports before using them publicly. "I regret that I didn't go to Niger to check out...

If you go back a few pages, you will find a Daily Telegraph article that quotes British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw defending the claim that SH was seeking uranium from Africa, and referring to sources other than those available to the CIA. Unless you possess a direct connection to Miss...

A more accurate and less biased formulation would be: Bush has admitted to having included one inadequately supported item in his SOTU in the section where he was listing evidence that supported one aspect of his case for war. So what? You have not just once but repeatedly deployed...

Barbarism is a value judgment. Indeed, the very origins of the word "barbarism" are in the Greeks' way of distinguishing themselves from other societies they considered inferior. If an ancient Greek was asked to pass judgment on contemporary American society, he or she might very well find...

July 11, 2003, 11:00 a.m. Scandal! Bush’s enemies aren't telling the truth about what he said. By Clifford May The president's critics are lying. Mr. Bush never claimed that Saddam Hussein had purchased uranium from Niger. It is not true — as USA Today reported on page one Friday...

Rewriting History To Attack Bush On Iraq By John Hawkins If you picked up a paper in the last week or so, you probably got the impression that George Bush spent a year demanding an Iraqi invasion based on claims that Saddam had reconstituted nuclear weapons with uranium bought in Niger. But...

We were right about uranium, Straw tells CIA By Colin Brown, Political Editor (Filed: 13/07/2003) Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, last night clashed with US intelligence chiefs as he defended the Government's controversial September dossier which was used to justify the war in Iraq...

As previously, pure supposition with no basis in concrete analysis or events. [b] I am saying that the term itself is a slur - typically aimed, of course, at individuals outside the military who promote hawkish views. Use of the term implies, in effect, that no one who is not actually a...

Resolution 1441 was a unified ultimatum: "full and immediate compliance" or face "serious consequences." Everyone know what it meant. Given the parallel statements and deployments, could any informed observer have had any doubt? Did you personally have any doubt what it meant? [/b] You...

I don't see how holding back current information on WMDs could be considered harmful to national security, though I would consider holding onto this information solely for the sake of enticing critics into a trap would be underhanded and an inappropriate use of intelligence information. For the...

[b] You keep on saying this, but, when challenged to provide supporting evidence, you punt. [b] Okay - then I really wonder whether you put on a bib before opening your upper shithole. Is that the level on which you'd like to debate these issues? (If you follow your usual tactics...

And yet, when the ultimatum was clear, and then re-stated in even sharper terms, and was defied, you would prefer that we held back yet once again. What, under such circumstances, would have made SH or any other enemy believe at some later point that this time we really, really, really meant...

There has been much speculation among relatively well-informed sources that the Administration is holding onto WMD information that it has not yet released. Some have suspected a political calculation: Let the bitterest and most excessive opponents of the Administration, along with the...

Men rely on platitudes when they are incapable of answering specific arguments directly. So you were in favor of intense military pressure as long as we didn't really mean it. [b] The timetable contemplated in Resolution 1441 was "immediate." This may have been the only context...

I suspect Kant would not presume that Bush was lying without good reason to do so, as he would be aware that making baseless charges of dishonesty in all likelihood would involve a violation of the categorical imperative and of a number of other imperatives, too. The evidence for the main...

Non-responsive: You asked, "Who armed Osama?" You did not ask, "Who armed the mujahideen?" Undoubtedly, some of the arms supplied to Afghan rebels ended up with Osama, and though we, of course, can't say what Osama and the gang would have been doing throughout the '90s if the Afghan war had...