THE TRUTH ABOUT PRESIDENT BUSH

I’ve decided to start a post that I will update often. It’s a list of the lies the left tell about President Bush. My purpose is to expose the lies they are telling over and over again in an effort, often successful, to convince Americans that they are in fact true.

Lie #1. The infamous “sixteen words” in the 2003 State of the Union address. I thought this had so thoroughly debunked that the left had dropped it. Unfortunately, they are still using it. The hyper-liberal organization MoveOn is currently using it in an ad in the New York Times. So, lets go over it again:

The Lie: George Bush misled the entire world when he said Iraq was trying to by uranium from Iraq. This was, in fact, not true – Iraq did not try to by enriched uranium.

The Truth: This is the full quote from the State of the Union address:

“The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon, and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide.”

As you can see, George Bush claimed THE BRITISH had intelligence of the attempted purchase. In fact, the British still stand by that. So, George Bush never claimed as fact that Iraq tried to buy uranium and lied about it. Everything he said was TRUE, at that time, the British did have intelligence about Iraq’s activities.