Blair Claims Iraq DID attempt to buy Uranium

Blair doing a piss poor job of covering his ass....why not just say that shrub made it up, we knew it was a forgery...

All i have to say is :wtf:


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Britain-Iraq.html

Prime Minister Tony Blair's office insisted he still believes the disputed charge that Iraq sought uranium in Africa was true, saying Britain has reliable information it cannot share with Washington because it comes from foreign intelligence sources.

let me guess, he got it from debkafile.

From the story:

Straw wrote in his letter to the House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs that the CIA reservations over the claim were ``unsupported by explanation'' and that Britain had based its charge in part on intelligence it did not share with the United States.

The letter did not say why Britain declined to share the information with its ally, but Straw wrote that he had explained the reasons privately to the Parliamentary committee.

A Blair spokesman said the information had come from foreign intelligence services and was ``not ours to share.'' He declined to say what country or countries had been the source.

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It's time for MOVEON, ANSWER, and all the others to start organizing big demos in DC, Canberra, and LONDON, just like back in Jan, Feb, and March.

Even if it's just a couple of tens of thousands in each capital. It'll send a message. Every sign should simply have a photo of Bush, Howard, and Blair and say: "LIARS."

Bush cannot claim the CIA made a mistake in mentioning the uranium story at the same time that Blair is saying that the story is true.

Blair and Bush have just impeached each other's testimony. In a court of law, one of them would have been found to have committed perjury!

are still trying to figure out "Who's on first?"

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA?

Will Blair be the scapegoat for this mess? or
Will Tenet resign? Will Krongard be the new Director?

"In a letter made public Saturday, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the CIA had expressed doubts to Britain about the uranium charge but did not specify what they were. Britain did not know until recently that the agency sent an envoy to Niger who investigated the claims and discounted them, he added."
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And Blair STILL thinks it was true? What a clusterfuck.
:wtf:

What's Saddam going to do with yellow cake? We now know he had no ability to process it -- no cetrifuges, no aluminum tubes.

The great thing about this article is that the British say they did not share the information with the U.S. The Bushies can't point to this newly emerged "reliable" information as backing for their Niger/uranium "sales lie" in the State of the Union.

The British didn't share it with Powell either, I guess...

Bush has one on his desk too--except it reads: "the buck stops ANYWHERE BUT here"

Good to see the party of responsibility and honesty owning up to this one, isn't it?

and all that good stuff that went with it....like a sane and inteligent President, a briliant and visionary Vice President, a briliant first lady. A Beautiful and truly compassionate 2nd Lady. Children in both residences we can be proud of. Damn I miss the last administration.

blair and shrub are doing the good cop: bad cop buggy to create a "reasonable doubt" in the minds of people. anything to make the water muddy is the power structure's mantra.

are the name of the Bush game.

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This poodle makes a bigger ass of himself by the minute.

I predict Blair will go down in the end.

I also predict that come next year, we will still have GIs getting killed in Iraq and mass peace marches all over the country.

I hope that Blair is not referring to Chalabi as the secondary source for the Africa uranium story.

Last Updated: Saturday, 12 July, 2003, 22:25 GMT 23:25 UK
Iraq uranium claim sows confusion

The UK Government's insistence on standing by the Niger claim in spite of Washington's decision to back down has deepened confusion about the intelligence itself.

The claim was first made public in a dossier on Iraq released by the UK in September last year.

The claim was then cited in President Bush's State of the Union speech to Congress in January - in what the White House now says was a mistake.

It has emerged that long before that, in February 2002, Ambassador Joseph Wilson - now retired - was sent to Niger by the CIA to verify the claim. He reported it was unfounded.

Mr Straw on Saturday said his government had not been told of Mr Wilson's visit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3061665.stm

Just on the *word* of another govt, the US will go to war without ever even seeing the evidence? They can't show it to us because it was provided by a foreign govt? Bull!

Maybe if we agree not to execute the Brits in Camp X-ray, they'll give us a peek.

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