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I abandoned my attempts to summarize the left coaster<\/font><\/strong>‘s painstaking dissection of the Administration’s misbehavior in the lead-up to the Iraq War. It was just to painful to read. But he now has another series going that may be the most important one of all. I’ll skip the details [they’re there for anyone to read on theleftcoaster.com<\/strong><\/a>]. This series is about the Administration’s subtle change in terminology as their drum beating for war reached a crescendo. The Niger Forgeries alledged that Iraq bought<\/strong> Yellowcake Uranium from Niger. In previous series, Eriposte<\/strong> has made it infinitely clear that our government and the British government should have<\/strong> known this was false information from the start. In later series, he presents compelling arguments that we did know<\/strong> it was false before we went to war. In this series he carefully takes the prewar discourse apart to show that there was a subtle, simultaneous change in the public discourse from both governments from bought<\/strong> to sought<\/strong> eg Hussein sought<\/strong> Yellowcake Uranium from Niger.<\/p>\n So what? One might say. Here’s why that’s important. It implies that both<\/strong> governments knew that the Niger Documents that said Iraq bought Yellowcake Uranium were forgeries. The change from bought<\/strong> to sought<\/strong> was clearly an attempt to soften the lie they were telling. But the big fact is that there was never<\/strong> evidence that Iraq sought<\/strong> anything. The change in wording was simply a simultaneously introduced, deliberate misleading C.Y.A. ploy. All of the later claims of faulty intelligence, Intelligence Community screw-ups, etc. are simply more lies to cover their active <\/strong>and conscious<\/strong> deception. <\/p>\n What Joseph Wilson said in the first place is absolutely true.<\/p>\n