July 08, 2003
Holding out hope
The White House said today that some of the “intelligence” presented during the President’s State of the Union address were false.
So today I sit at my desk knowing all of my fears are looking more and more true every day. The truth is that our government took us to war, in part, on forged documents from Nigeria. In fact, they even said so. I’m sure this first one will be shrugged off because “we had SO much evidence”, but, little by little, I think it will all come out.
This of course not because our own Congress is really doing anything, but because the Brits have Tony Blair on the hot seat. Yup, this is one leftwing conspiracy nutjob who’s holding out hope the Bush administration will implode.
Posted by joestump at July 8, 2003 10:02 AMBah, they are doing damage control in a vacuum. The major media outlets aren’t critisizing outside of their editorial rants and the apologists are screaming their lungs out denouncing anyone who would dare to call into question the truth or untruth of WMDs, weapons “programs” or blueprints to weapons. Unfortunately this is backfiring in the court of public opinion because so many truths that were unsupported are now being thoroughly dissected and are coming up false, which means even the most extreme right-winger is left holding a small thread of “truth” and must resort to licentious name-calling and liberal-bashing.
The Bush administration is using Blair as it’s mine canary, if he goes down, Bush knows he’s going to be in the crosshairs soon.
Posted by: Stephen VanDyke at July 8, 2003 10:35 AMJust for the sake of clarity, it’s Niger not Nigeria. They are neighbors, but not the same country.
Posted by: Ryan at July 8, 2003 03:00 PMThe real story here is that Cheney met with the CIA and was told before the State of the Union address that it was a hoax. Yet he sat behind the President during the entire SoU and let Bush “mistate facts”. I’m not buying this “accident” proposal. There is collusion and lying going on at the top… from the article:
“The question was asked of the CIA by the office of the vice president. The office of the vice president, I am absolutely convinced, received a very specific response to the question it asked, and that response was based upon my trip out there,” Wilson said.
Yet nearly a year after he had returned and briefed CIA officials, the assertion that Saddam was trying to obtain uranium from Africa was included in Bush’s State of the Union address.
Posted by: Stephen VanDyke at July 8, 2003 03:11 PMIt’s Niger, not Nigeria. The alleged uranium came from Niger.
Posted by: Dana Blankenhorn at July 8, 2003 05:19 PMI’m waiting for someone to do a Nigerian Spam satire, similar to this, based on the now-infamous fake documents from Niger.
Posted by: Cam at July 8, 2003 05:41 PM
