This bullshit in D.C. has been planned from the beginning. Doesn't anyone think that it is odd that Bush made the effort to mention in the State of the Union that the information we got about the Iraqi attempts to buy uranium was from the British? There was no need to qualify where we got the intel from, but because everyone who had even the slightest awareness of facts knew that this was a complete falsity (including me, who discovered the truth about the uranium forgery in 12 seconds online way back when I first heard about it), I cannot help but believe that false information was intentionally used with the qualifier that it came from the British precisely in case the American public caught on to the lie. Then, as Rumsfeld and Rice have been saying lately, it will be possible to truthfully argue that Bush never lied about it. It is a fact that the information came from the British, and that is what Bush said. Never mind that it was known to be false.
Essentially Bush and his team are saying that they weren't really saying that Saddam had tried to buy uranium, they were just saying that the British told them that Saddam was trying to buy uranium. This is low-handed backstabbing of Blair and his adminstration as well, leaving them out to flap in the wind.
The simple mention that we got the information from the British just smells bad. Why bother to mention it unless you were setting up some insurance later on? They knew the information was false, but they said it in a way that duped the American public yet left them with a safe exit. And Bush campaigned on integrity...
This is but one example of the well-known ability for the Americans to allow themselves to buy into whatever it is their government and media are selling. It serves to emphasize the importance of a variety of media sources in a regular information diet, but considering that most Americans don't even have passports, it's probably expecting too much.
Posted by Nutrimentia at July 14, 2003 11:29 AM | TrackBack