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...leaders are both guilty of transforming a war of choice into a war of necessity, as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman puts it, and they were both caught. Bush’s handlers have been falling all over themselves trying to insulate Bush from the now-infamous Africa-uranium claim, while Blair’s lieutenants would prefer to kill the messenger, faulting the BBC for sexing up its reporting of Blair’s sexed-up reports—the so-called “dodgy dossiers...
...quiet, low-key manner that makes him a perfect person to deliver tough news to the President. That's what he did last week when he disclosed that he had belatedly found two memos from the CIA expressing serious doubts about intelligence claims that Iraq had tried to acquire uranium in Africa. He thus offered himself as the fall guy for the disputed sentence about uranium that wound up in Bush's State of the Union address. "I should have asked that the 16 words be taken out," he told reporters at a hastily called press conference. "I failed...
...Administration placed such a strong emphasis on the purported Iraq-al-Qaeda link when it appears to have been at odds with the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community. The National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq recently released by the administration to back up its case on the "yellowcake" uranium allegations says the intelligence services did not believe it was likely that Saddam would share his weapons of mass destruction with al-Qaeda, except perhaps once his regime was doomed. Critics suggest this is because the administration was inclined to shut out information that undercut its rationale for war. Former Georgia...
...uranium story puffed up so huge? It wouldn't have been a very big deal without the deepening crisis in Iraq. But it also has ballast because it clarifies an aspect of George W. Bush's essential character--specifically, the problem he has with telling the truth. I am not saying Bush is a liar. Lying is witting: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." This is weirder than that. The President seems to believe that wishing will make it so--and he is so stupendously incurious that he rarely makes an effort to find the truth...
...Nuclear Sharing The accusation in your article "Arsenal of the Axis" [July 14] that Pakistan purchased missiles from North Korea while providing uranium-enrichment technology in exchange is totally incorrect. Pakistan has addressed concerns stemming from such misleading reports to the complete satisfaction of its friends and allies. By repeating such fictional and outdated stories, a magazine of Time's stature does no credit to itself. Pakistan is a responsible state and its nuclear-weapons program is purely defensive in nature. It has a well-established control-and-command system that effectively ensures such technology is not shared with...