"Uranium from Africa"

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa". George W. Bush in the 2003 "State of the Union" address, repeating what he knew was a lie.

"TWO employees of the Niger embassy in Rome were responsible for the forgery of a notorious set of documents used to help justify the Iraq war, an official investigation has allegedly found. According to Nato sources, the investigation has evidence that Niger’s consul and its ambassador’s personal assistant faked a contract to show Saddam Hussein had bought uranium ore from the impoverished west African country". The documents, which emerged in 2002, were used in a US State Department fact sheet on Iraq’s weapons programme to build the case for war. They were denounced as forgeries by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) shortly before the 2003 invasion. The revelation spawned a series of conspiracy theories, most alleging that the British, Italians, or even Dick Cheney, the American vice-president, had had a hand in forging them to back the case for war. The story was still reverberating around Washington last week with claims that President George W Bush had authorised the leaking of the identity of a CIA agent whose husband cast doubt on the Niger link".

Bush used the 16 words at the top of this post in his 2003 State of the Union (SOTU) in January of 2003. Here is direct testimony from the Deputy DCI in a National Intelligence Estimate in October of 2002, three months prior to the SOTU;

"On October 2, 2002, the Deputy DCI testified before the SSCI. Senator Jon Kyl asked the Deputy DCI whether he had read the British white paper and whether he disagreed with anything in the report. The Deputy DCI testified that "the one thing where I think they stretched a little bit beyond where we would stretch is on the points about Iraq seeking uranium from various African locations. We've looked at those reports and we don't think they are very credible".

Bush was lying about Iraq trying to obtain uranium from Africa and his own intelligence reports prove that. He was going to Iraq and it didn't matter if they were truly a threat or not. He should be impeached at the very least.