White House disputes Italy role in Iraq claim

[sabra]

http://www.heraldnewsdaily.com/stories/news-0093780.html

White House disputes Italy role in Iraq claim

WASHINGTON - The White House on Tuesday disputed accusations that Italian intelligence in a 2002 meeting passed off fake documents, showing Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger, that formed part of U.S. President George W. Bush President George W. Bush‘s case for war against Saddam Hussein .

U.S. officials who attended a September 9, 2002, meeting with Italy‘s spy chief do not recall the issue coming up, said a spokesman for the White House National Security Council. The meeting is central to the accusations.

"No one who was present at the meeting remembers yellow cake (uranium) being discussed nor any documents being passed," spokesman Frederick Jones said.

Bush, in making a case for war in his 2003 State of the Union address, said there was evidence that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa to further apparent nuclear-weapons ambitions.

[JuniperLea]

1. Right, everyone else is lying except Bush and his cronies

Isn't that just a tad paranoid?

[mallard]

21. Pants aplame...

This WH thinks it can dictate its own version of the truth to a loyal populace to the exclusion of all nay sayers. Yesterday, Scotty McClellan says "I think I've earned America's trust". They are all obsessed with assuming a great public image as if this was 9/12/01 and people still believed America was caught totally off guard.

Baking up self-serving lies and being paranoid are different.

[JuniperLea]

26. When you are a pathological liar

and you believe your own lies, I think it is paranoia that makes you think everyone else is wrong and you are the only one who is right.

Do you think they call him "Scotty" because "Scooter" was taken?

:p

[Selteri]

2. Why wouldn't it come up when

'The italians are the ones who suppsedly tipped us off?"

[Spazito]

3. My, my, my, it seems memory loss has become a virulently

contagious disease in the bush administration. How convenient!

[sofa king]

4. Oh, so it's a typical White House work week.

Monday: Another scandal emerges.

Tuesday: Deny it ever happened. Attack the Democrats for partisan sniping.

Wednesday: Faced with the weight of evidence, admit it might have happened, but it was legal.

Thursday: TERRA! TERRA! TERRA!

Friday: TERRA! TERRA! wedon'tcommentoncontinuinginvestigations TERRA!

[rodeodance]

5. of course they would dispute it!!

[rodeodance]

6. they have short memories for something so important!

[lonestarnot]

7. Sabra nobody can remember shit! Are they all pot smokers?

And you sure have been a busy beaver today!

[DemoTex]

9. Juicers. Big time.

Same effect.

[stillcool]

8. Hook 'em up....

to lie detectors. I can just picture it.

[damntexdem]

10. Not Italy? OK! Then the documents must have been forged in ...

the White House.

[twaddler01]

11. So then where did the information REALLY come from?

Hmmm...:think:

[HockeyMom]

12. Niger Embassy Break in in Rome

Did they forget that? The office was ransacked and nothing stolen, except some letterhead was missing. Two weeks later the forged papers were delivered in a manila envelope. "Follow the Yellow Cake Road" article, in Newsweek.

Coincidence?

[lonestarnot]

14. must kick

must nominate!

[wordpix2]

27. link? KICK

[daleo]

13. They had to deny it (not really though)

Which pretty well proves it's true.

Not much of a denial either:

"do not recall the issue coming up"

"No one who was present at the meeting remembers..."

[lonestarnot]

16. Where's you nomination?

[goforit]

15. Keep trying Bush.......You're such a fool!!!

[rstlne]

17. don't forget...

...Italy is probably still pissed about that Giuliana Sgrena/Nicola Calipari fiasco.
We still don't know, one way or the other, what really happened there.

Gotta wonder if the 2 events,(1 forgery & 1 dead agent) are somehow related.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. OK, what was the evidence then? That led to *'s 16 words? Surely

this must have been based on SOMETHING?

[leesa]

19. Must be drinking too much of Rumsfeld's aspartame-laced diet soda

They can't remember shit!

[VegasWolf]

20. Everybody in the world is lying except little Bushy. Right! nt

[HyperAlert]

22. Of course they denied it. That's their modus operandi.

They want us off the track. I've been researching this baby, and I have a gut feeling the killing of Nicola Calipari (SISMI agent who was shot by US troops while springing Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena from her "Iraqi" captors) is somehow linked to the Niger Yellowcake documents/Nicolo Pollari/US Administration connection. This is strictly a gut feeling, but has been with me for days. I think Calipari knew too much about something. Let me know if anyone has done any Sherlock Holmes on this...

[WinkyDink]

25. ITA.

Our sniper hit the right target.

[IndianaGreen]

23. This is the same White House that said that Libby and Rove had nothing

to do with the Plame leak, right? I just want to make sure everyone is aware that this White House has zero credibility.

[yorkiemommie1]

24. i believe you, george, really, i do !

:rofl:

[wordpix2]

28. Another huge lie. IMPEACH this LYING A-hole

[jazzjunkysue]

29. It was Clinton.

It's always Clinton, if it's bad.

[lovuian]

30. Italy??? is that a country??? Who are they???

Bush playing dumb!!!