Look at the facts. The evidence Bush saw showed that the alleged uranium sale was based primarily on an unverified document and uncorroborated rumors
Quick point, as you keep saying this..
You know that British MI-5 still stands by the documents authenticity, and that Ambassador Wilson's report led the 9/11 commission to conclude that his observations actually supported rather than refuted the Niger yellowcake story... You know Duelfer's report details that Saddam took pains to keep his nuclear braintrust intact, and these scientists actually individually hid various nuclear related information with the understand that Saddam planned to reconstitute when sanctions were lifted.
You know, granted there may be no clear proof at present that vast stockpiles of old WMD or attempts to rebuild a nuclear program or actionable links to Al Qaeda but there still are ALOT of unanswered questions despite several major investigations.
Bill Gertz's report of Russian special ops (rouge?) moving out something to Syria just before we came. Maybe just some of the tech they were selling Saddam illeagally, maybe the explosives everyone is talking about, maybe WMD...think back 2 years to the Israeli satellite photos of convoys leaving Iraq for Syria...WHAT were the hell Russians doing??
Funding Al Qaeda...why all the meetings with Iraqi intell, at leat 3 pretty certain and 1-2 other possiblities all detailled in 9/11 commision report. And then there is HSA. Some 400 million in OFF funds to the HSA group owned by one Abdul Rahman Hayel Saeed, who is also a founding member of the Malaysian Swiss Gulf and African Chamber (MIGA). MIGA and other founding members are known to the UN and the CIA as major Al Qaeda financers and are terror watch-listed, though Hayel Saeed and his HSA group not been linked directly to Al Qaeda but are still under investigation.
Heck..what was Saddam doing with hundreds of tons of RDX, hot enough to ignite a nuke, let alone nearly a billion tons of high explosives.
He gamed billions from oil for food, paid off UNSC members for vetos, was paying them off to lift sanctions and planned to resume WMD per Duelfer's report. Saddam was a VERY bad dude, world class lier, yet liberals act like we invaded a monastary...really weak!
Point is, we have been looking around Iraq for 18 months with VASTLY better access that UN inspectors had, we have captured and interrogated hundreds, we have captured thousands of Iraqi documments and we STILL do not really know what was going on. Yet the left expects Bush to have been clarvoient with the intell he had at hand. None of the UN coutries that opposed the president in 2003 argued that they doubted the intel that I know of..do you know of any. As I said in the past..it is just flat out intellectual dishonsatly to call Bush a lier with the info you have.
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