Yes, George W. Bush Did Lie About The Uranium

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Yes, George W. Bush Did Lie About The Uranium

By Thomas Keyes
Feb. 21, 2005

I confess that in my article, "George Bush Lied About The Uranium", I was careless enough to provide links that were not necessarily the ones from which I got the information originally. Recalling the pertinent facts rather than the exact names of the websites involved, I merely conducted a search in each of the cases I cited, and selected a website that had most of the pertinent facts. I assumed that Tom Pain was already familiar with the facts in the case, inasmuch as he is taking it upon himself to plead for George W. Bush’s veracity as if he, Pain, knew what he was talking about, and that I was merely reminding him. But his comments vis-a-vis the plagiarism of the thesis reveal that he was probably totally unaware of the incident in the first place. Elsewise, he would not have challenged me on my references to a "student" and a "thesis", and the age of the information. Let me quote an article from Truthout:

"The other main source was a thesis by post-graduate student, Ibrahim al-Marashi, the US-born son of Iraqis, who lives in California. His research was partly based on documents seized in the 1991 Gulf War."

http://truthout.org/docs_02/021003E.htm

There’s more information on plagiarisms in the same article. If Truthout doesn’t meet Pain’s exacting standards of excellence that websites are supposed to meet, I’ll gladly provide him with others. I’m shocked that Pain went no further than to read the article at the link I provided, when it would have been easy to verify it by search engine. How dare he disparage information that he was utterly unaware of with so much disingenuous flippancy?

I apologize further for not quoting the precise passage from the transcript of el Baradei’s address that I was referring to in my article, assuming that Pain would see it. So here it is:

"Based on thorough analysis, the IAEA has concluded with the concurrence of outside experts that these documents which formed the basis for the report of recent uranium transaction between Iraq and Niger are in fact not authentic. We have therefore concluded that these specific allegations are unfounded."

If the head of the IAEA says that the documents which, at least in part, formed the basis upon which Bush took the nation to war are "not authentic", most assuredly the revelation should have been cause for the White House to demand an immediate investigation. So again it looks as if Pain missed the point entirely, because he doesn’t even mention the inauthenticity of the documents that was the whole crux of my argument.

In the case of Pilger’s assertions about the video footage, of which again Pain seems to have been totally ignorant, he attacks the particular website that I linked, as if I saw this information on a single dubious website and swallowed it unthinkingly until such time as some more enlightened person than I, which apparently Pain regards himself to be, should advise me on how to research a topic. I hope the Sydney Morning Herald is good enough for Pain:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082978207.html

I had thought that Pain was familiar with these issues, but I find that he is not, and resorts to rationalization, dodges and bluster instead.

In addition to those references, let me quote an article that Commondreams copied from the Washington Post, in which Niger officials denied the allegations as early as March 9, 2002. This should have been further cause for doubt:

"Wilson has been interviewed recently by the House and Senate intelligence committees, which are expected to focus on who in the National Security Council and the vice president's office had access to a CIA cable, sent March 9, 2002, that did not name Wilson but said Niger officials had denied the allegations."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0706-05.htm

Here’s another quotation from Truthout, about two memos from the CIA sent to Stephen Hadley about the falsity of the Niger claim:

"Two weeks later, the CIA revealed that other administration officials were culpable as well. CIA officials sent Hadley two memos in October 2002 warning him not to continue peddling the Niger claims to the White House because the intelligence was not accurate."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022006Z.shtml

As for some other innuendoes made by Pain, and innuendoes are Pain’s modus operandi, let me emphasize that I did not say I was a conservative. I’ll thank him not to enroll me in any parties or factions whatsoever.

My conclusion is that, if you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, you should listen instead of talking: Yes, Bush did lie about the uranium.

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About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far.

I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents.

Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com

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