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...presented a piece of false evidence in support of the Administration's case for going to war with Iraq. The CIA HAD warned members of the President's staff that the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement that Saddam Hussein had "sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Even though Bush cited the British government as the source in his statement, he conveyed a falsehood. It was Bush, not the CIA, who deceived Americans; it is he and his Administration that must be held accountable. GREG COX Wheaton...
...presented a piece of false evidence in support of the Administration's case for going to war with Iraq. The CIA had warned members of the President's staff that the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement that Saddam Hussein had "sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Even though Bush cited the British government in his statement, he conveyed a falsehood. It was Bush, not the CIA, who deceived Americans; it is he and his Administration that must be held accountable. Greg Cox Wheaton...
...ultimately responsible for declaring war on Iraq: George W. Bush. The scapegoating of CIA Director George Tenet for the false uranium intelligence report does not conceal the fact that Bush, acting on flawed intelligence, launched a war against a sovereign nation not imminently threatening the U.S. Congress and should be held accountable as well. Here's the scorecard to date on Iraq: no uranium, no weapons of mass destruction and no end to the loss of American life, just an ever growing cache of lies and excuses. Dan Nace St. Louis...
...Record Straight Still Writing In the article on the controversy over claims that Iraq sought African uranium [July 21], we published a photo caption that incorrectly said Mike Gerson was a former chief speechwriter at the White House. Gerson still holds that position...
...PULLING OUT THE STOPS CIA chief George Tenet was the first to take the blame for not deleting from President George W. Bush's State of the Union address the line about Iraq trying to buy African uranium [IRAQ: THE EVIDENCE, July 21]. And the Administration's pointing of the finger at Tenet prompted several readers to recall the famous motto THE BUCK STOPS HERE, adopted by President Harry Truman (shown here in 1959 at the Truman presidential library in Independence, Missouri). Observed Brad Nelson of Ypsilanti, Michigan: "Unlike Truman, it seems that George W. Bush would rather pass...