otis_p_driftwood@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:54:06 -0500, SemiScholar
> <noemail@spambegone.com> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:51:34 -0400, otis_p_driftwood@hotmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >>When the Democratic National Committee sends out a press release about
> >>lying, I snap to. It's like getting a stock tip from Martha Stewart or
> >>advice on race relations from Dusty Baker.
> >>
> >>They know of what they speak.
> >>
> >>"Details Emerge of Bush Administration's Year-Long Deception!" screams
> >>the DNC headline. "This may be the first time in recent history that a
> >>president knowingly misled the American people during the State of
> >>Union address [emphasis added], that last phrase being absolutely
> >>vital in preventing Clinton wingman Terry McAuliffe from being laughed
> >>into Canada.
> >>
> >>Presidents who go on TV and knowingly mislead the public? Why no
> >>Democrat could imagine such a thing.
> >>
> >>The Democrats are desperately trying to knock President Bush off his
> >>solid poll numbers with claims about "misstatements" and "deception"
> >>regarding Iraq. But the press is going to have to land the punches for
> >>them. Thanks to their defense of "President O.J." (we all knew what he
> >>did, we just wanted to see if he could get away with it), the American
> >>Democratic Party simply has no standing.
> >>
> >>The same people who appeared on TV and told us — with a straight face
> >>— that the behavior Clinton engaged in with his intern that resulted
> >>in his "DNA material" ending up on her dress WASN'T sex, can't exactly
> >>expect a standing ovation in their new role as self-declared defenders
> >>of the truth.
> >>
> >>It isn't helping that the Democrats still can't get their story
> >>straight.
> >>
> >>The DNC is running TV ads that attack President Bush for his "false
> >>claim" in the State of the Union speech that "Saddam Hussein recently
> >>sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
> >>
> >>What President Bush actually said was "The British government has
> >>learned [emphasis added] that Saddam Hussein recently sought
> >>significant quantities of uranium from Africa." But for some strange
> >>reason, the DNC left out that whole "British government" part. Gee,
> >>that changes the entire nature of the president's statement. You don't
> >>think the DNC left it out on purpose, do you?
> >
> >But what you're leaving out is that Bush knew that the story was
> >false.
> >
> How did he *know* this? Your saying it does not make it so.
>
It's not the story about Iraq trying to get uranium that is false but
the papers that were part of the intelligence suggesting that this had
taken place. There is further intelligence on this subject.