Here's why I beat it to death

In ten years, my uncles, my grandmother, coworkers, and acquaintances will remember the quote LIE!!@#$@!!! that George W. Bush told about Iraq attempting to buy uranium through Niger. But they will not remember the truth that came after. And neither will ordinary Americans that only passively pay attention to the 'news'.

Why? Because of two weeks of misrepresentation on the part of the press.

Bush's comment: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

The comment was true and is still true. But liberals took the fact that the history of that comment was partly based on fraudulent documents and turned it into the same thing as him intentionally lying about something he knew was false.

What you will never hear conceded by those same liberals is the fact that that statement has been borne out as truth the more it has been investigated:

FT.com / World: A UK government inquiry into the intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq is expected to conclude that Britain's spies were correct to say that Saddam Hussein's regime sought to buy uranium from Niger.

The inquiry by Lord Butler, which was delivered to the printers on Wednesday and is expected to be released on July 14, has examined the intelligence that underpinned the UK government's claims about the threat from Iraq.

The report will say the claim that Mr Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes, seized on by UK prime minister Tony Blair to bolster the case for war with Iraq, was inadequately supported by the available intelligence, people familiar with its contents say .

But among Lord Butler's other areas of investigation was the issue of whether Iraq sought to buy uranium from Niger. People with knowledge of the report said Lord Butler has concluded that this claim was reasonable and consistent with the intelligence.

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"President George W. Bush referred to the Niger claim in his state of the union address last year. But officials were forced into a climbdown when it was revealed that the only primary intelligence material the US possessed were documents later shown to be forgeries.

The Bush administration has since distanced itself from all suggestions that Iraq sought to buy uranium. The UK government has remained adamant that negotiations over sales did take place and that the fake documents were not part of the intelligence material it had gathered to underpin its claim."