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Bodyguard
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Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 12:29 am Post subject: A Change in Tune
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From WSJ.com
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Remember Joe Wilson, the loudmouthed former ambassador who stirred up a kerfuffle last year by claiming that BUSH LIED!!!! when he purportedly said Saddam Hussein's Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Niger? Now Wilson has a book out, and it seems he's changing his story. The Washington Post reports:
It was Saddam Hussein's information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as "Baghdad Bob," who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade--an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium. . . .
In his book, Wilson recounts his encounter with the unnamed Niger official in 2002, saying, he "hesitated and looked up to the sky as if plumbing the depths of his memory, then offered that perhaps the Iraqi might have wanted to talk about uranium." Wilson did not get the Iraqi's name in 2002, but he writes that he talked to his source again four months ago, and that the former official said he saw Sahhaf on television before the start of the war and recognized him as the person he talked to in 1999.
Weird. Wilson was a cause célèbre on the Angry Left for awhile there (there was also something about his wife, if we remember right), but apparently for no reason.
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CCCs
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 2:41 am Post subject:
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John Kerry was on Hardball last week and said "We may still find chemical weapons in Iraq...". Sounds like the left is starting to hedge their bet a little.
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kanaka
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject:
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| John Kerry was on Hardball last week and said "We may still find chemical weapons in Iraq...". |
I was at work last week and said "I may still win the lottery some day...". 
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CCCs
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject:
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However Kanaka, this is either a change in position or further nuance from Kerry as his stated position was that we were "lied to" about the WMD...
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Bodyguard
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 6:20 pm Post subject:
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The Left will say or do anything to get Bush out of office. The Dems are realizing what a drip John Kerry is, the result is that nobody is FOR Kerry.....just AGAINST Bush. Kerry has been on every side of almost every issue. I think CCC is correct about this one.
PS CCC I love your Caddyshack line in your signature..."wich is nice"
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