🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 3 May 2004 04:47:36 +0000 (UTC), Merlin Dorfman
<dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:

>Merlin Dorfman (dorfman@rahul.net) wrote:
>
>...
>
>: : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2278019.stm
>
>:      Pre-Gulf-War-I (1986-88).  We knew Saddam was working on 
>: atomic energy then.  (Remember the Israelis taking out the Osirak
>: reactor?)  The question is about since then.
>:      And I'm automatically suspicious of anthing that contains a
>: howler like this: "However, the uranium produced in Africa is not
>: of weapons grade and would need processing before it could be used
>: in weapons."  Tell me, where can I dig weapons-grade urainium
>: right out of the ground??
>
>: : http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/12/sprj.irq.uk.uranium.straw/index.html
>
>:      Other procurement activities, but nothing related to yellow
>: cake...and IIRC that was primarily the aluminum cylinders that
>: turned out not to be for centrifuges.
>
>: : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/14/wdoss114.xml
>
>:      A French source!  LOL!
>
>: : http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36632
>
>:      An unconfirmed report from December that some unstated
>: amount of yellow cake was found...no info on source or age,
>: could certainly have been left over from the 80s.
>:      However, here are some reports of the White House's
>: admission of error in making the charge:
>: Asia Times:
>: <http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EG11Ak02.html>
>: And if you don't like that source, how about Fox News...
>: everybody knows how anti-Bush they are:
>: <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,91619,00.html>
>: Or, finally, how about the White House itself:
>: <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030711-7.html>
>: (about a third of the way down)
>: <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030712-11.html>
>: (You have to go a little more than halfway down where the Press
>: Secretary admits the letter was a forgery but claims Saddam was
>: a threat anyway.  But perhaps he can explain why "The more
>: uranium you have, the fewer centrifuges you need to produce a
>: nuclear weapon.")
>
>     And here is another relevant article from today's San Jose
>Mercury News.  Registration is required but is free:
><http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/8572254.htm>:
>Joseph Wilson's description of how he showed the entire story of
>Saddam trying to buy uranium in Africa was incorrect, not just the
>letter; and how this information was provided to the Administration
>months before the State of the Union; and how, after the State of the
>Union, when Wilson mentioned that information, somebody (probably in
>Cheney's office) retaliated by "outing" his wife as a CIA agent...
>which is a felony.

You do know Joe is trying to sell a book, right?

You do know that his wife was not an "agent" of the CIA, right? (007
variety) 

You do know that she was "outed" by her own husband, right?

You do know that Joe has an axe to grind, right?

Sometimes you are so gullible...

Mike Smith