The White House ignored a request by the CIA to remove a statement in President Bush's State of the Union address that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa for its nuclear weapons program, CBS Evening News reported on Thursday.
White House officials argued that since a paper issued by the British government contained the assertion, if it was attributed to Britain it would be factually accurate, CBS said. CIA officials dropped their objections, CBS said.

Robert Lindner, “It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.”

Evan’s Law: Once you give up integrity, the rest is easy.

Napoleon said, “Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.”

Former chief UN weapons inspector Richard Butler says Prime Minister John Howard, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Defence Minister Robert Hill have all mislead the Australian Parliament, and should resign.