The Red Pill

By far the biggest story over the weekend was Bush’s supposed “lie” in the State of the Union Speech. The Democrats obviously feel that they finally have an issue that they can use against Bush in 2004, even if it means undermining America’s victory in Iraq.

Here, for those of you who were out camping over the weekend, are Bush’s controversial 16 words.

“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

Democrats and their fellow travelers in the media are saying that this was a lie. Not so. The statement was true when Bush made it, and is true today. Consider these words from Tony Blair to the British Parliament just last week:

“In the 1980’s Iraq purchased somewhere in the region of 200 or more tons of uranium from Niger. The evidence that we had that the Iraqi government had gone back to try to purchase further amounts of uranium from Niger did not come from so-called ‘forged’ documents, they came from separate intelligence.”

Blair is standing by the findings of his governments intelligence forces. This would mean that Bush’s statement which begins with the words “The British government has learned ….” is correct.

The problem is that you didn’t hear about Blair’s statement from one single major news outlet last week. Not one. CNN only started reporting it this morning.

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Why would the mainstream media, which votes overwhelmingly Democrat, get in the way of a perfectly good opportunity to nail George Bush?