Demosophia

Hey Joe, where yah gun with that goin' in a yo' han'?

Smokin' Joe Wilson is, incredibly, changing his tune about Iraq's quest for WMD goodies from Niger. (Hat tip: Command Post) Say.... what? Say, this:

It was Saddam Hussein’s information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as “Baghdad Bob,” who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade — an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium.

That’s according to a new book [by] Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who was sent to Niger by the CIA in 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq had been trying to buy enriched “yellowcake” uranium. Wilson wrote that he did not learn the identity of the Iraqi official until this January, when he talked again with his Niger source.

And with Bush now backing out of Iraq like someone smacked his public, perhaps there's some sort of metaphysical reversal going on. Stranger things....

Well, I always knew what the real liberal position was on this war.

Posted by Demosophist at April 30, 2004 03:19 PM | TrackBack