This is a tempest in a tea kettle. Despite all the attention, this is it: In the State of the Union address, the President said , "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa".

Although the CIA apparently disageed with the assessment, everyone agrees that the statement was factually accurate - the Brits did make the claim - and could have been substantivly accurate - it was possible he sought uranium. In addition, the statement was not central to the President's point - that Iraq was dangerous. This sentence was only part of the evidence for part of his argument that Iraq was dangerous. In fact, while Iraq's nuclear program got one paragraph of attention in the State of the Union address, its chemical and biological weapons got four.

This is all much ado about nothing. Despite what the press wants, this is not the Gulf of Tonkin.
- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 10:08 AM