Originally Posted by dragonrider

Well, I won't speak for Birdgirl, but personally I was trying to stick with the topic of the original post. The original post was about yellowcake and made some weak conclusion that, because of this well-known cache of yellowcake in Iraq, Bush had not lied about yellowcake in the runup to the war.

The only statement I can remember Bush making in regards to yellowcake before the war was his claim that Iraq had tried to illegally obtain yellowcake from Niger, and I am assuming that it is this statement that the article had been trying to prove was not a lie. The article did not prove this statement was not lie. Bush lied about Iraq trying to obtain yellowcake from Niger. The Niger lead had been followed up by multiple intelligence services and found not to have any truth, and Bush was aware of that fact. Yet he still presented this lie as one of the most important pieces of evidence that Iraq was violating the UN resolutions and attempting to restart his nuke program.

So, yes, this thread is about one of the many lies, mixed with many valid facts, that were used to justify the war.