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July 09, 2008
No news, so move on!
Recent reports about Iraqi uranium have not received the wide circulation they should have: The victory is so complete that Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki said Saturday his government has defeated the terrorists in Iraq. Defeated. Past tense.I found an AP report posted at the Philadelphia Inquirer's web site, but it has hardly been front page news, and while I don't recall seeing it in the paper's hard copy, I might have missed it. From the AP report: And, in a symbolic way, the mission linked the current attempts to stabilize Iraq with some of the high-profile claims about Hussein's weapons capabilities in the buildup to the 2003 invasion.Well that's all good and fine. But what about the old news reports like this one (original news link expired) -- which was headlined "No uranium, no munitions, no missiles, no programmes"? The "no uranium" claim was central to the "Bush lied people died!" claim. How did Saddam Hussein obtain 550 the tons of uranium that wasn't there? Never mind? The Examiner calls the "Bush lied, people died" meme a useful fiction, does not think apologies will be forthcoming, but thinks Bush's assessment will be vindicated: The clear conclusion suggested by these facts is that Saddam was biding his time until United Nations sanctions against his nuclear program were either lifted or he felt sufficiently confident of deceiving U.N. inspectors to begin large-scale enrichment and ultimately nuke production.Oddly enough, Bush's assessment of the Iraqi threat was once shared by most Democrats. (List of actual "Quotes from war-mongering Democrats" here for all WMD nostalgia buffs.) What this means, of course, is that the Democrats can truthfully state that none of this is news, because they knew all along. posted by Eric on 07.09.08 at 09:13 AM |
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I sent this link to my very liberal uncle in NoCal, who took it as proof that Joe Wilson was telling the truth, and that the Bush administration was incompetent for not removing this sooner.
Facts, apparently, do not dent the narrative. Raise your children and grandchildren to be interested in space travel, because America is going to have to be refounded somewhere else. That may buy us another couple of centuries.