{"id":1050,"date":"2007-04-03T12:14:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T18:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2017-06-06T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:59:08","slug":"how-bogus-letter-became-a-case-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/how-bogus-letter-became-a-case-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/yellowcake1.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/yellowcake1.bmp\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>By Peter Eisner, The Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>It was 3 a.m. in Italy on Jan. 29, 2003, when President Bush in Washington began reading his State of the Union address that included the now famous &#8211; later retracted &#8211; 16 words: &#8220;The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like most Europeans, Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for the Italian newsweekly Panorama, waited until the next day to read the newspaper accounts of Bush&#8217;s remarks. But when she came to the 16 words, she recalled, she got a sudden sinking feeling in her stomach. She wondered: How could the American president have mentioned a uranium sale from Africa?<\/p>\n<p>Burba felt uneasy because more than three months earlier, she had turned over to the U.S. Embassy in Rome documents about an alleged uranium sale by the central African nation of Niger. And she knew now that the documents were fraudulent and the 16 words wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the uranium claim would become a crucial justification for the invasion of Iraq that began less than two months later. When occupying troops found no nuclear program, the 16 words and how they came to be in the speech became a focus for critics in Washington and foreign capitals to press the case that the White House manipulated facts to take the United States to war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/AR2007040201777_pf.html\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/wwatchuranium.jpg\">(Photo)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Eisner, The Washington Post It was 3 a.m. in Italy on Jan. 29, 2003, when President Bush in Washington began reading his State of the Union address that included the now famous &#8211; later retracted &#8211; 16 words: &#8220;The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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