12
Jul
2003
Picture This:
President Bush or anyone in his administration never mentioned the Saddam's efforts to get nuclear materials. He did not use this one sentence in . The State of The Union Address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
Would anything have changed? Did anyone decide to support the President just because of that sentence? If anyone did, it would have been the people who are crying foul over this now. We know they did not change their minds. They were against the United States taking a preemptive action to protect its citizens. They were against the liberation of Iraqi people. They were full of wishful thinking. They claimed that there would be thousands of casualties. They alleged that we were going into another Vietnam. They expected a wave of terror attacks to follow.
They were wrong then; they are wrong now. This nuke thing is the last little twig they are holding on to discredit the war. Here is the full paragraph about the Saddam's nuke program President Bush talked about in The State of The Union Address:
"The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide."
The part about the British Government learning of Saddam's effort to purchase uranium from Africa may have been based on some forged documents, but no one else is disputing the other parts of the speech. It will be shown that Saddam was actually trying to purchase uranium and those people crying foul now will have egg on their faces again.
President Bush or anyone in his administration never mentioned the Saddam's efforts to get nuclear materials. He did not use this one sentence in . The State of The Union Address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
Would anything have changed? Did anyone decide to support the President just because of that sentence? If anyone did, it would have been the people who are crying foul over this now. We know they did not change their minds. They were against the United States taking a preemptive action to protect its citizens. They were against the liberation of Iraqi people. They were full of wishful thinking. They claimed that there would be thousands of casualties. They alleged that we were going into another Vietnam. They expected a wave of terror attacks to follow.
They were wrong then; they are wrong now. This nuke thing is the last little twig they are holding on to discredit the war. Here is the full paragraph about the Saddam's nuke program President Bush talked about in The State of The Union Address:
"The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide."
The part about the British Government learning of Saddam's effort to purchase uranium from Africa may have been based on some forged documents, but no one else is disputing the other parts of the speech. It will be shown that Saddam was actually trying to purchase uranium and those people crying foul now will have egg on their faces again.
