What Everyone Should Be Asking Bush -- And Why Tenet's Taking The Fall Is No Answer
by Tamara Baker

July 15, 2003 -- SAINT PAUL (apj.us) -- So the Unelected One, George W. Bush, has made CIA director George Tenet take the fall for Bush's having presented the faked Niger-Iraq nuke documents as genuine in Bush's State of the Union speech last January.

But as Howard Dean notes, Joseph Wilson, the ambassador to Niger, had himself said that his report showing that there was no involvement between Niger and Iraq in terms of the uranium deal was sent to Dick Cheney's office and Colin Powells's office, as well as to the CIA.

Another hole in the "CIA goofed" dyke the Bushistas are trying to build: the CIA tried, way back last fall, to get the Brits to pull the Niger references from their own dossier, because they knew they were false.

Either Bush and his people are such horrific incompetents that none of them heard what Ambassador Wilson was practically shouting at them, or they knew full well about his report and chose to lie anyway.

Which do you think is more likely, dear readers?

How can Bush blame it all on Tenet, when Joseph Wilson, our Ambassador to Niger, had himself told Cheney's office, Colin's office, AND the CIA that there was no Niger-Iraq nukes link -- not to mention the CIA's warning to the Brits?

This is what everyone should be asking Bush.

This is what we must force him to answer.

This is what we need to hammer on in our letters to Congress, and the Editor.

You know what to do.