Weekly Canard

And while we're on the subject of mendacity in the newsroom [see the immediate previous post], Robert "Mr. Canard-o-matic" Scheer is up with this week's 3-alarm column. In today's column we have the following classic canards:
The "Bush is a Criminal Canard:

The Case of the Phantom Uranium raises questions about the president that could lead to legitimate calls for impeachment.

The Imminent Threat Canard:

The president persistently claimed that the war was necessitated by the imminent threat of deployed weapons

The Big Lie Canard

We now know that the threat of deployed WMD was a blatant falsehood. What has not been established is whether the president was in on the lie.

Now we have a new canard about the forged Niger uranium document

Thus in his 2003 State of the Union address, the president intoned that "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa." Scary stuff. Problem was, the document was signed by an official who had given up his post a decade earlier, and the CIA had told the White House the story did not check out.

The other problem for your fabricated "scandal", Bob, is that Colin Powell himself acknowledged that the document was a forgery only days after the IAEA dismissed its validity. Three months ago. Before the war started. Some cover-up. Hit 'em with your best shot, Bob.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 17, 2003 11:40 AM