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July 22, 2003

"I did not have uranium with that woman"

The Democratic National Party is soliciting funds to air this commercial.

The ad twice shows Bush saying "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." It then tells us that everyone knew that was false. But the real aim of the ad is, I believe, to hang that phrase around Bush's neck the way the Republicans hung "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" around Clinton's.

And the way the administration tried to wiggle out of it by claiming that the full statement - truncated in the ad - only said that the British had learned this, not that it was true, is more disingenuous than Clinton's "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

Posted by D. Weinberger at July 22, 2003 10:44 AM


Comments

What is that mechanical clacking on the soundtrack? And, who uses Courier as a font?

Geez, how nostalgic is that? I kinda miss that little bell that would ring as you got to the end of a line. Ding, time to think about hyphenation. And then if you weren't careful you could type right off the bottom, and ruin the whole damn page. The good old days.

Posted by: Bill K | July 22, 2003 12:21 PM


Fack off

Posted by: Anonymous | September 17, 2004 12:01 PM


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