The DNC has a Flash game criticizing Bush’s 2003 State of the Union statements on Iraq and uranium. Except, as usual, the DNC is deliberately taking his comments out of context. The DNC uses this phrase:
…Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
What they didn’t give is the full quote in context:
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. (Emphasis mine)
And of course, The Telegraph of July 14, 2003 deflates the connection between Wilson and the MI6 evidence:
British officials admitted that the country was Niger but insisted that the intelligence behind it was genuine and had nothing to do with the fake documents. It was convincing and they were sticking with it, the officials said.
They dismissed a report from a former US diplomat who was sent to Niger to investigate the claims and rejected them. “He seems to have asked a few people if it was true and when they said ‘no’ he accepted it all,” one official said. “We see no reason at all to change our assessment.”
The fake documents were not behind that assessment and were not seen by MI6 until after they were denounced by the IAEA. If MI6 had seen them earlier, it would have immediately advised the Americans that they were fakes.
So, the British evidence is not linked to either the forged documents, nor is it linked to Ambassador Wilson’s half-assed "investigation." It is entirely different evidence that the British continue to support.
So, by attacking a quote out of context and confusing two entirely different pieces of information, the Democrats are once again try to twist the truth to attack the President.
It’s another example of why the Democrats don’t deserve to be in office – they’re too busy playing political "gotcha" to have any semblance of a plan for winning the war on terror.
UPDATE: In fact even the French found an Iraq-Africa connection involving uranium.
If that weren’t enough, The Guardian reports on more Iraqi attempts to obtain uranium from Africa.
