The American Spectator

Reader Mail

(Page 5 of 12)

Richard L.A. Schaefer /B> BR>Dubuque Iowa p> ON THE OTHER HAND BR>Re: Mark E. Hyman's Inspector Valerie Clouseau : p>Regarding Mr. Hyman's assertion: "The Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, chaired by The Right Honorable Lord Butler of Brockwell (the 'Butler Report'), was Britain's own '9/11 Commission Report.' The Butler Report concluded that the original British report of Iraq seeking uranium ore from Niger, which led to the 16-word sentence used in the 2003 State of the Union address, was 'well-founded.'" p>Please note: "Nuclear expert Norman Dombey has pointed out that the information relied upon by the Butler Review on the Niger issue was incomplete; as he noted, 'The Butler report says the claim was credible because an Iraqi diplomat visited Niger in 1999, and almost three-quarters of Niger's exports were uranium. But this is irrelevant, since France controls Niger's uranium mines.'" ( Independent , 25 July 2004). And when asked by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to discuss the conclusions of British intelligence, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin stated, "The one thing where I think they stretched a little bit beyond where we would stretch is on the points about Iraq seeking uranium from various African locations. We've looked at those reports and we don't think they are very credible. It doesn't diminish our conviction that he's going for nuclear weapons, but I think they reached a little bit on that one point" (from Wikipedia ). p>This is just one example of a number of conspicuously flawed contentions. Mr. Hyman's article is

topics:
Taxes, Education, Health Care, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Economics, Business, Social Security, Medicaid, Satire, Religion, Catholicism, Islam, Abortion, Hollywood, Law, Supreme Court, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO, Africa, Fascism, Nuclear Weapons, Medicare