White House Credibility Defense Shifting

Mon Jul 21, 2:40 PM ET


By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The White House defense of President Bush (news - web sites)'s now-disavowed claim that Iraq (news - web sites) was seeking uranium in Africa has evolved over the last two weeks: blame others, stonewall, bury questions in irrelevant information and, above all, hope it will go away.

So far, none has worked.


In question: 16 words in Bush's Jan. 28 State of the Union speech: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."


At issue: the credibility of the president's allegation that Saddam was rebuilding a nuclear weapons program. The assertion that Iraq was trying to buy uranium was a key component of that claim — and a key piece of Bush's justification for war. ...
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=536&u=/ap/20030721/ap_on_go_pr_wh/defending_bush&printer=1

I was having a lousy day until I read this -- bad news for Bushit brings joy to my heart!

:kick:

n/t

to see these type of stories getting national, large audience press.

When the GOP ditzes out there are still delling out
$7 million + a campaign stop,....we are not doing are job
on a public Relations standpoint!!!

The media needs to pound this into the ground like they did
Clinton's blow job!!!

Write letters to all stations and papers 24/7!!!!