Why did Bush keep lying about the uranium even when told it was a lie?

Question

http://www.thetip.org/art_Bush_Told_Tenet_to_Keep_the_Niger_Claims_In414_icle.html

"Tenet's admission that the central claim was left in Bush's speech because it had been attributed to British intelligence. Agency officials 'in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct, i.e. that the British Government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa,' Tenet said.
'This should not have been the test for clearing a presidential address. This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and the CIA should have ensured that it was removed.''

Answer 1

You are wrong.

Answer 2

Tenant dropped the ball on 911, WMD's, Uranium, Etc. . Bush gets the blame because Tenant is a Democrat. Same old worn out whining BS by do nothings.

Just proves one thing. Next time Repubs should just fire anyone in the government that is a democrat.

Answer 3

amazing. amazingly dumb. completely inaccurate.

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Joseph Wilson personally went to Niger and talked with officials there. His report to the CIA [since released through hearings in Congress] flatly said that Iraqi officials approached the Niger government about mutual trade opportunities. Niger's sole significant export was and is yellowcake uranium.

Later, Wilson lied about his report in his infamous NY TImes op-ed piece. [You have to remember that op-ed always means that a partisan position has been taken by the author and that it likely does not represent all the facts that he knows, just the ones he wants you to hear.]

And the media was off on another ill-founded witch hunt.

Congress cooperated by not indicting Wilson for either breaking his secrecy promise to the CIA or for his lies to Congress.


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The further reports discrediting Wilson's intelligence [which claim that his investigative technique was so bad that the Niger officials fed back to him what he wanted to hear, apparently hoping for free money from the Administration] did NOT surface until AFTER the war was over.

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There is no doubt that Iraq had an active atomic research program intended to create a bomb in 1991. The head of that program escaped Iraq in 1994 or 1995 and wrote a book about it, exposing many elements of the program and how Iraq hid those after its defeat in the Kuwait war.

He detailed how Iraq was playing the west for patsies and keeping their research capabilities alive but deeply hidden. Saddam obviously intended to restart the program at a later date.

You can read this book in your public library -- almost no one ever checks it out, in my experience.

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Btw, saddam did the same with his chemical and biological weapons programs. Everyone knew he had them in 1991 -- he'd used them in both Kurdistan and in the war with Iran. The programs were mothballed and hidden away from western inspectors and eyes.

At the very least, Saddam intended to restart those programs at some future date.

Where did they go?

best evidence is Syria. There are lots of odd bits of intelligence that point to this -- but the isolationsit lobby in America probably won't believe a bit of the evidence until Israel captures the hidden dumps and exposes the Iraqi manufacturing gear to the whole world.


wake up!! The alternative is that your children will be slaves in America.

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Answer 4

Don't think he ever lied on that.
With all the facts given.
Just blunders and slip-ups with human errors with communication problems that was only expose later after the war was over.
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors in messing up with science and mathematics with communication problems in making a mess out there.
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors getting kick on the butts by artificial intelligence of Mr. Big Brother hiding behind the closet when children was playing computer games.
He really did'nt lie about it.
The answers is out there being overlook.
Until little horror chucky keep on making a mess out there.
Realised something was wrong.
But he never lied.
Caught him with "You light up my life"
The slip-up he was never aware of it.
Had to reach out and extend him a helping hand with "He's ain't heavy He's my brother" in faraway land.
When everyone was blindly kicking him on the butts for the mess he never create out there.

Answer 5

Your opinion about what should or should not be the litmus test in a Presidential Speech is evidently not what the Politicians think. Your basic premise is therefore mistaken.

Answer 6

Because lying is what Bush does best. One look at the mess he created in Iraq should cast aside any doubts. Look on the bright side - November 2008 is only 14 months away !

Answer 7

Tenet said "slam dunk"

That Clinton man tried to destroy America. No surprise.

Answer 8

Can you elaborate on this story? What proof do you have that he lied?
edit: So the president should have automatically discounted everything that was told to him because the guy was from the Clinton Administration? I see.

Answer 9

he didn't.... uranium is a naturally occurring metal found within the earth's crust.... he wasn't lying!

Answer 10

do you think he might have an agenda ? i do .