Fleischer and WH confirmed: Bush used incorrectly "forged documents"

Date:Monday July 07, @06:26PM
Author:ewing2001
Topic:News
from the FOXNews dept.

White House Admits Factual Error in State of Union Address

FOX News

Tuesday, July 08, 2003

WASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged Monday that President Bush's State of the Union address in January was incorrect in stating that Iraq had recently sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa.

The acknowledgment came as a British parliamentary commission questioned the reliability of British intelligence about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the war in Iraq.

Bush said in his State of the Union address that the British government had learned that Saddam recently sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa.

The president's statement was incorrect because it was based on forged documents from the African nation of Niger, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer acknowledged..."


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