Remember when the Democratic primaries were all agog about the Nigerian Uranium? Accusations flew that President Bush had intentionally lied to the American public, misleading us for his own nefarious purposes.

Well guess what?

Bush's State of the Union speech redeemed
excerpts from an article by Mark Steyn

Do you remember a year ago when the Democratic National Committee was putting out press releases headlined "President Bush Deceives The American People"?...

..."The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."...

...Sixteen words that could break a presidency! Bush "misled every one of us," huffed Sen. John Kerry. "It's beginning to sound like Watergate," said Howard Dean...

...Well, on Wednesday in London, Lord Butler will publish his report into the quality of the intelligence on which rested Britain's case for going to war with Iraq. The report is said to be critical of some of Tony Blair's claims, supportive of others. And, among the latter, he says that the statements about Iraq and Niger are justified and supported by the intelligence. In other words, the British Government did learn that Saddam Hussein did seek significant quantities of uranium from Africa...

...Last summer, the comparatively minor matter of uranium from Niger was all over the front pages and the news shows. Do you think Butler's report will be? Do you think Terry McAuliffe and John Kerry and Howard Dean will be eating humble yellowcake?...

...And so it's proved. The fact is almost every European intelligence service reckoned Saddam was trying to buy uranium in Africa. The only folks who didn't think so were the CIA...

...National security shouldn't be a Republican/Democrat thing. But it's become one because, for too many Americans, when it's a choice between Bush and anybody else, they'll take anybody else. So, in "Fahrenheit 9/11,"' if it's a choice between Bush and Saddam, Michael Moore comes down on the side of the genocidal whacko and shows us lyrical slo-mo shots of kiddies flying kites in a Baathist utopia. In the Afghan war, if it's a choice between Bush and the women-enslaving gay-executing Taliban, Susan Sarandon and Co. side with the Taliban. And in the most exquisite reductio of this now universal rule, if it's a choice between Bush and the CIA, the left sides with the CIA...

This administration has done a lot of things that earn criticism from me. Still, it never ceases to amaze me how often the mass media jumps onto a story as fast as it can, gets it wrong, and then prints a retraction on page A26 months later after they have already "educated" the American Public.

Posted by Michael at July 11, 2004 10:49 AM