HOW DO THEY DO IT? Bush Administration really good at spotting forgeries

[dave29]

or are they?

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/US/uranium030716flaweddocs.html

July 16— The forged documents detailing the supposed sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq were published today in a Rome newspaper — obvious flaws and all.

Among the many glaring errors evident in the documents, which were allegedly produced by an underpaid Nigerien diplomat and published in La Repubblica, are the use of obsolete letterheads, incompatible dates and poorly forged signatures.

In one document that supposedly formalizes the sale of uranium to Iraq, dated October 2000, bears the signature of a man who has not been Niger's foreign minister since 1989.

[Bjornsdotter]

1. Snicker, snicker!! n/t

[Brotherjohn]

2. And when the U.N. announced they were forgeries to the world in March 2003

... just BEFORE we invaded Iraq, Dick Cheney had this to say:

"Frankly, we feel Mr. El Baradei (head U.N. nuclear weapons inspector) is wrong."

Even faced with glaring evidence that they were forgeries, Cheney said he was right, they were wrong. But what else could he do? They weren't going to NOT invade!

[dave29]

3. This is why they are winning the debate

that plus they have no problem telling lies to the American people.

[lapfog_1]

4. If only the Niger documents had a reference to the TANG

the whole Iraq war could have been avoided!

[dave29]

5. politics over policy

gotta love it

[Southsideirish]

6. Really, really good at "sleight of hand" - don't look THERE - look

HERE!!!

[gratuitous]

7. And yet they can't tell

Whether the Swifties are a pack of liars. Just because none of them were there, and their sworn affidavits contradict the contemporaneous record, darn it all, there's just no way to tell who might be telling the truth. Is the records written in 1971? Or the paid shills who have crawled out from under an RNC rock? Who to believe, who to believe? Think, think.