BUSH UTTERING THE INFAMOUS 16 WORDS ON THE NIGER-IRAQ URANIUM LINK IN THE STATE OF THE UNION
Decided this simply had to have its own diary. Please show this Smoking Gun diary to people who voted for Bush so you can increase their voter's remorse, please show and e-mail this thread link to everyone, especially the media.
The media, in particular, have not explained just how ridiculously phony the Niger docs really were. It is such a LAUGHABLE Forgery. LOOK AT THE CORRECT SEAL IN COLOR AND THE ONE SOMEONE DREW!
This is why over 1,900 Americans are dead in Iraq.
Here is a PDF of the entire doc: http://cryptome.org/niger-docs.pdf
Here is a link to more info: http://cryptome.org/niger-docs.htm
Update [2005-9-30 12:51:22 by Sherlock Google]: Jbalazs just put up a diary on why the Niger Story was never aired on CBS:
IMPORTANT NOW: 60 Minutes Niger story that never aired... Let's get it aired!
I agree! Call CBS and tell them to air that story NOW since the Plame Leak case is coming to a climax.
Source of the 8 images: Robert Windrem, NBC News, which received them from La Repubblica.
It is outrageous that we went to war--and after the CIA told the President and the NSC these were phony! And still the Neo-Cons put it in the State of the Union so we could conquer Iraq for its oil.
I did not realize how phony until last night when I wrote a diary on the Larry Franklin guilty plea. Leeden, Franklin and other neo-cons received the docs in Italy at a meeting and took them back to America.
As I said, start e-mailing the link to this diary and start pestering the press about putting this on the tube and in the papers!
ROME MEETING IN DECEMBER 2001
Michael Ledeen organized a meeting in Rome to gather evidence to support the planned war. Present were:
- Michael Ledeen, Karl Rove's foreign policy advisor and organizer of the meeting
- Nicolo Pollari, head of the the Italian equivalent of the CIA, the SISMI
- Italy's Minister of Defense, Antonio Martino (no relation apparently to the spy Rocco Martino), Pollari's boss
- Larry Franklin, an American who presently is being prosecuted in the US for giving classified information to an Israeli front group, AIPC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) -- which some would call "spying," even though he has not been charged with espionage
- Harold Rhode: member of Dick Cheney's Office of Special Plans, protege of Ledeen, go-between with Iraqi exile and CIA asset (at the time) Ahmed Chalabi.
Ledeen already had a longstanding friendship with Francesco Pazienza, an Italian felon and forger who had been kicked out of the official Italian intelligence organization SISMI but who had found a new home in the renegade intelligence agency P-2 (Propaganda Due). Pazienza apparently was not present but definitely was known to Italian intelligence agents, including Rocco Martino, as well as to Ledeen.
Ledeen also was a personal friend of Pollari, who, like Ledeen, is a master of the card game bridge (Ledeen writes columns on it). There are close ties between Pollari's official intelligence organization, SISMI, and Pazienza's unnofficial one, P-2. In fact, P-2 recruits from SISMI.
This little group dusted off Martino's discredited second dossier on Iraq-Niger trade, with the uranium references. The Bush administration now had its casus belli.
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