CBS NEWS. A major news organization gets the story and has the guts to put it out there. The White House KNEW they were lying about the Iraq info. The CIA told "them" to take out the false evidence in the State of the Union speech and Bush used it anyway. This is what a democracy is all about and why I hate this secretive White House which treats us all like children and like they can do ANYTHING as long as they stick a flag in our faces and cry 9/11. You can NOT LIE to the American people to justify starting a war. All while your oil/energy/construction friends and financial supporters are making billions off the blood of that lie. It's immoral and it is not how America works. AMERICA. This is what IMPEACHMENT is supposed to be about because we live in a DEMOCRACY. It's time to stand up as a citizen and do the right thing and contact your representative and tell them you will not allow such a cabal of mendacities to color the leadership of our nation. Small men and women running our government are willing to forfeit YOUR honor and pride in our system of government for personal gain and under the guise of "they know better." It's time to show them who is the real boss in this country and speak through your representative.



Rep. Henry Waxman has introduced legislation to create an independent commission to investigate the Bush administration's distortion of evidence. Please ask your Representative to pledge his or her support at:

http://www.moveon.org/wmdpledge/

A President may make no more important decision than whether or not to take a country to war. If Bush and his officials deceived the American public to create support for the Iraq war, they need to be held accountable.




Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False

(CBS) Senior administration officials tell CBS News the President's mistaken claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa was included in his State of the Union address -- despite objections from the CIA.

Before the speech was delivered, the portions dealing with Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were checked with the CIA for accuracy, reports CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin.

CIA officials warned members of the President's National Security Council staff the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa.

The White House officials responded that a paper issued by the British government contained the unequivocal assertion: Iraq has ... sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. As long as the statement was attributed to British Intelligence, the White House officials argued, it would be factually accurate. The CIA officials dropped their objections and that's how it was delivered.

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa", Mr. Bush said.

The statement was technically correct, since it accurately reflected the British paper. But the bottom line is the White House knowingly included in a presidential address information its own CIA had explicitly warned might not be true...








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