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December 09, 2005
Reading Between the (Head)Lines
Quickly, there are two main points to absorb from today's The New York Times we learn the following points:
1) The dubious (and later disproven) claims by the United States of a link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, which was used to justify the invasion of Iraq, was obtained by outsourcing the torture of a detainee to Egypt.
NYT: ("Qaeda-Iraq Link U.S. Cited Is Tied to Coercion Claim")
2) Democrats are seeking copies of drafts of two of President Bush's pre-Iraq war speeches to determine whether he commited an impeachable offense; that is, whether he deliberately lied in his 2003 State of the Union address, when he made the claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger (a claim that discredited Ambassador Joe Wilson as well as the CIA). The question is why did this claim appear in the 2003 State of the Union, but not in a high-profile October 2002 speech Bush gave in Cincinnati to outlined his case for invading Iraq? The Dems want drafts of the 2002 speech to find out if the Niger claim had been included in any drafts, but ultimately pulled out of the speech. If that is the case, it would be strong evidence that Bush knew the claim was false when he used it in his 2003 State of the Union speech. And lies by the president, as the right wing itself have insisted satisfy the criteria of "high crimes and misdemeanors," required to invoke articles of impeachment against the president.
NYT: ("Bid for Prewar Iraq Files Raises Political Heat")
Posted by MJuhre at December 9, 2005 01:43 PM