http://www.samefacts.com/2006/04/lying-in-politics/the-smoking-gun-on-the-sixteen-words-bush-lied-tens-of-thousands-died/ Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.samefacts.com/2006/04/lying-in-politics/the-smoking-gun-on-the-sixteen-words-bush-lied-tens-of-thousands-died/comment-page-1/#comment-24123 Max Power Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:11:03 +0000 http://samefacts.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/uncategorized/the-smoking-gun-on-the-sixteen-words-bush-lied-tens-of-thousands-died/#comment-24123 Mark, that 16 words were known to be false when they were spoken has been public since July 11, 2003, when George Tenet resigned.
In his statement of that day, he said:
“…Some of the language was changed. From what we know now, Agency officials in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct – i.e. that the British government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa. This should not have been the test for clearing a Presidential address.”
Tenet says that the CIA prevented the President from saying: “Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”, but allowed him to say “The British government has learned thatSaddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”, because that semantically narrowed assertion was true, in a narrow technical sense.
Not true enough to prevent him from resigning over it. But on that day, George Tenet buried the credibility of the SOTU, definitively. By saying that the words were changed to make them technically true, he in effect asserted that the intention of the changes was to mislead.

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