Tony Blair defending the Niger uranium claim:
"We know in the 1980s that Iraq purchased from Niger over 270 tons of uranium, and therefore it is not beyond the bounds of possibility let's at least put it like this that they went back to Niger again. That is why I stand by entirely the statement that was made in the September dossier."
It is not beyond the bounds of possibility . . . that they went back to Niger again. This remark drew gasps from British Members of Parliament, and I can see why. We're witnessing the public collapse of Tony Blair's reputation

The yellowcake lie landed on Page One solely because it occasioned a brief and fatal departure from the Bush White House's press strategy of stonewalling. "Bush Claim on Iraq Had Flawed Origin, White House Says" read a New York Times headline on July 8.

WHO is LYING? What happened in Mere Hours to change their headline?

Today's question: Why, in the face of the obvious, does Bush enjoy such broad popular support?

If the nation as a whole really objected to mass murder in Texas prisons, we'd have thrown Bush out with the bathwater he rode in on.

Even a fool must understand the choices by now. Do we torture the non-white races or don't we? Do we imprison dissent or don't we? Do we bomb Moslems or don't we? Do we rake to our Reaganesque selves the goods of the earth, or don't we?

"The revelations by the CIA official and the senators, if true, would prove that Tenet, who last week said he erred by allowing the uranium reference to be included in the State of the Union address, took the blame for an intelligence failure that he was not responsible for. The lawmakers said it could also lead to a widespread probe of prewar intelligence."
mr ed - ha ha - wolfy is gonna fall and they are trying to save tenet - sick shameless people... all of them... what does tenet know about 911? falling on a retractable sword - u gotta love it...

Like Japan, the U.S. economy has painted itself into a debt corner that is locking in low interest rates. These rates can't go up without causing widespread distress.

Come September, these deep throats are likely to be singing publicly in hearings on Capitol Hill, unless something changes radically.

This is a voice so glib and so disarming it could almost hide the personal and political desperation the man is feeling right now.

The facts aren't in yet, but keep your eyes on the aluminum tubes. In the same State of the Union speech, Bush warned darkly: "Our intelligence sources tell us that [Saddam Hussein] had attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear-weapons production."


Perle told the Washington Post on September 11. "Someone taught these suicide bombers how to fly large airplanes. I don't think that can be done without the assistance of large governments."

"If you get something pinning September 11 on Iraq, great," Powell is quoted as saying. "But let's get Afghanistan now.

"It may be that the Iraqi government provided assistance in some form to the recent attack on the United States," it said. "But even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power.