Worth Repeating

I'll just digest this from cursor to bring people up to date: The Washington Post says that Tuesday's disclosure by the White House that it had received two memos from the CIA in October, expressing doubts about Iraq's attempts to buy uranium, "punctured claims made by Rice and others in the last two weeks... that nobody in the White House knew of CIA objections, and that the CIA supported the Africa accusation generally, making only technical objections about location and quantity."

Top national security aide Stephen Hadley, who took the blame for allowing the uranium charge in the State of the Union speech, told reporters that "As I sit here, I do not remember" details of the CIA reservations. In addition to the two memos, Hadley received a phone call from CIA Director Tenet before the president's Oct. 7 speech asking that the Africa allegation be removed.

The reason this story has resonated is that even a child understands the issues:

Mom, can I tell Bob, Susy messed up his room?

Honey, I looked into that and it isn't true.

Can I say that Sharon says Susy messed up his room?

Honey, I told Sharon it wasn't true.

But can I say that is what Sharon says?

Silly, If you said that it would be technically true but you are still telling a lie because I told you it wasn't true.

Thanks Mom.

The two cases you use that statement.

If you don't care if it is true or not and want to bolster the case for war.

Or, the less likely possibility, is that you don't believe your CIA and you know the British knows something your CIA doesn't know. But in this case, why are you even asking the CIA to approve the speech?

This is hardly worth writing about. They have been caught in lies and the major good news is that everyone is going to start looking at all their other lies.