No mistake
From the Washington Post: "The White House has acknowledged that it was a mistake to have included the uranium allegation in the State of the Union address. But an examination of how it originated, how it was repeated in January and by whom suggests that the administration was determined to keep the idea before the public as it built its case for war, even though the claim had been excised from a presidential speech the previous October through the direct intervention of CIA Director George J. Tenet. "
The inclusion of the allegation that Iraq tried to obtain uranium from Niger in Africa was not an isolated instance. High level members fo the Bush administration consistently referred to such as this example (from NY Times op ed peice by Condi Rice as quated by the Washington Post): " '...Iraq's efforts to get uranium from abroad...' "
These and similar references can only be seen as deliberate and consistent attempts to use flimsy evidence for the purpose of winning public and foreign support for an attack on Iraq.
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