State Department Memo: '16 Words' Were False:
"Eleven days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded State Department memo is the first piece of hard evidence and the strongest to date that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored intelligence information in their zeal to win public support for invading Iraq."
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Someone please explain to me why the Washington Post and the rest of the 'right' seems to still think that there was independent evidence of the attempt to acquire significant ammounts of uranium from Niger. What is this independent evidence and is this even relevant to the claim that backed the words in the state of the union?
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