The Mahablog: The Sentence, Plus and Minus

While we wait for the next revelation, I want to go back to one ancient artifact of the Traitorgate Saga--the Sixteen Words. You'll remember the Sixteen Words from Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech, which were:

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. [2003 State of the Union Address]

These words were dropped into the speech to show the urgent need to go to war with Iraq. We've learned since that the evidence was forged and the National Security Office had been told by the CIA that the claim was unsupported.