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	CNN.com - Rice: 16 words dispute 'enormously overblown' - Jul. 14, 2003
		This 16 words came into the State of the Union from a whole host of sources.
		So yes, it is unfortunate that this one sentence, this 16 words, remained in the State of the Union.
		But this was a mistake on 16 words, not on the president's discussion and the president's case for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/13/cnna.wolf.rice (2067 words)

	(3/17/2006) Another 16 Words
		After all, what are a few words when gauging the essence of a man...
		Look, even if our CIA had a problem with the first 16 Words, it's not a lie since the Mr Blair said he thought it to be the truth.
		Or even 25,000 liters of anthrax, the 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, the 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent, the 29,984 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents...all of which were "ready on 45 minutes' notice." And which none existed.
	www.albionmonitor.com /0603a/sy-16words.html (753 words)

	Iraq: 16 Distortions, not 16 Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Washington, D.C....The dispute over flawed intelligence claims on Iraq is more than a dispute about 16 words, but rather one of at least 16 major distortions, according to a Council for a Livable World report released today.
		While Administration officials have tried to narrow the dispute to a mere 16 words in the President's State of the Union address, there has been a widespread and consistent pattern of selectively choosing evidence in order to inflate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
		CIA Director George Tenet admitted on July 11, 2003: "These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the President." However, finger pointing among Administration officials has continued over who is responsible for this portion of the speech.
	www.clw.org /archive/16distortions.html (1390 words)

	FactCheck.org Bush's "16 Words" on Iraq & Uranium: He May Have Been Wrong But He Wasn't Lying
		The famous “16 words” in President Bush’s Jan. 28, 2003 State of the Union address turn out to have a basis in fact after all, according to two recently released investigations in the US and Britain.
		The "16 words" in Bush's State of the Union Address on Jan. 28, 2003 have been offered as evidence that the President led the US into war using false information intentionally.
		The final word on the 16 words may have to await history's judgment.
	www.factcheck.org /article222.html (1999 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Gephardt's 16 Words by William Kristol
		PRESIDENT BUSH'S 16 words on uranium and Africa in his January State of the Union address--"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa"--have become famous, or infamous.
		But Dick Gephardt's 16 words, spoken in the course of a major foreign policy speech this past Tuesday, are the ones that matter.
		They reflect the considered judgment of a centrist Democratic presidential candidate, one who voted to authorize the war, that his party must stand in fundamental opposition to the Bush foreign policy.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9084 (668 words)

	SORRY, BUSH BACKERS: 16 WORDS STILL MATTER : LA IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But those words helped launch a thousand ships and a few hundred thousand U.S. men and women to Iraq, some to their deaths.
		Now, it's clear not only that the information was incorrect but that people at several levels of the administration knew it to be incorrect before the 16 words were uttered.
		The two-pronged strategy: Hoist up Ol' George Tenet to twist in the wind and keep referring to the offending sentence as "those 16 words," as if they were obviously unimportant among all the thousands of other actually important and honest words.
	la.indymedia.org /news/2003/07/73456.php (632 words)

	Wizblog: The "16 Words" - True
		It's no news flash for anyone who is familiar with the Butler Report or the SSCI Report that Iraq really did seek to buy uranium in Niger, contrary to the CW that "Bush lied" in his 2003 State of the Union address.
		Christopher Hitchens' Slate piece in particular, provides information not widely publicized previously, about the Iraqi diplomat involved in the Niger effort, and about the crudely forged documents which were used to try to discredit the true story of Iraq's quest for Nigerian uranium.
		And as John Leo's column points out, even the Washington Post has come around to admit that the "16 words" were true.
	danwismar.com /archives/wizblog/2006/04/16/the_16_words_true (444 words)

	Bush's 16 words - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		"Rice: 16 words dispute 'enormously overblown'," (http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/13/cnna.wolf.rice/) CNN, July 14, 2003: "Criticism grew last week over the White House's acknowledgment that President Bush included a 16-word statement in his State of the Union address that was based on false intelligence.
		Mike McArdle, "The Other 16 Words," (http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/07/19_sixteen.html) Democratic Underground, July 19, 2003: "The statement later proved to be false but Dr. Condoleezza Rice told Wolf Blitzer, 'it is 16 words, and it has become an enormously overblown issue.'...
		Bush provided us with 16 words that may be of even greater significance than the fraudulent ones that found their way into the State of the Union address.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Bush's_16_words (934 words)

	How Powerful Can 16 Words Be?
		Not since President Clinton urged his interrogators to define the word "is" have so many people in Washington debated a simple declaration by a president, which turned out to be anything but.
		Some administration officials stand by the 16 words as "technically correct," and the British continue to insist they are substantively true — but Bush advisers now concede that the president should never have included the charge.
		Meanwhile, a Whodunit parlor game has emerged to locate the mystery inserter, as columnist Michael Kinsley noted: "Was it Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with a candlestick?" Or perhaps "Condoleezza Rice in the Situation Room with a bottle of Wite-Out." The White House is mum.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0720-09.htm (1292 words)

	It's not just about the 16 words =The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the perks of writing this column is the freedom to rant — to record any random thoughts that enter my head.
		In writing about the weapons-of-mass-destruction (WMD) issue, many have focused on the daily ticktock of who said what to whom that led to 16 inaccurate words in the State of the Union address.
		The 16 words are just a small piece of that broader story.
	www.thehill.com /campaign/073003_mellman.aspx (578 words)

	Up For Anything: Those 16 Words
		Back in July of last year, I blogged about 16 words in President Bush's State of the Union address that had liberals in a fury.
		July 7th, it was, "Add Another to the Pile," when Oliver wrote, "Pretty clear that our man in DC lied to the nation during his state of the union speech." Well, Oliver, it's pretty clear now that you're wrong.
		Like Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), "The 16 words are deeply, deeply troubling to me, and the way in which the administration has responded in the last few days raises more questions than it answers." Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) suggested that those 16 words were worthy of impeachment.
	www.upforanything.net /archives/000682.html (783 words)

	lies.com » 16 Words, 9 Questions
		There are still a few other ways you could argue that Bush’s 16 words were technically true.
		But it only raises the question: If Tenet pushed successfully for removal of the 16 words’ previous, not-attributed-to-the-British version, and then was guilty of an oversight in not objecting to the modified version, who was holding the other end of the rope in the game of political tug-of-war he was playing?
		Yet in her statements about the decision-making that led to the inclusion of the 16 words, she comes off more like a flustered stenographer.
	www.lies.com /wp/2003/07/15/16-words-9-questions (1923 words)

	16 Words and 28 Pages - Maureen Farrell at BuzzFlash.com
		Greg Palast's reports into ways FBI and military intelligence officials were instructed to "back off" investigations involving members of the bin Laden and Saudi royal families were also noted, and he revisited this story on the eve of Gulf War II.
		The cascade of lies [LINK], hype [LINK] and deliberate manipulation of information [LINK] are conveniently reduced to "16 words," and "28 pages" as symbols of this administration's secrecy and deceit.
		There is no "leveling with the American people," as lawmakers have requested or "owning up to mistakes," as USA Today would like [LINK], but a series of frustrating, systematic and calculated means of pulling the wool over our collective eyes.
	www.buzzflash.com /farrell/03/07/29.html (1367 words)

	The 16 Words Weren't Just a Data Point
		You might think that a president facing a decision to go to war, a war that has now claimed about 230 American lives and killed thousands of Iraqi civilians and soldiers, might have gone a little deeper than a briefing on his best intelligence.
		Bush is now ironically blaming the CIA for not pushing hard enough to keep the 16 words out of Bush's speech.
		The 16 words were no mere data point on Jan. 28.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0723-04.htm (727 words)

	The Other 16 Words, by Mike McArdle - Democratic Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In just 16 words Bush’s incredible statement had completely reinvented the history of the last year.
		In this case he is the ultimate figurehead, a silly foolish man who exists only to be thrust in front of cameras and podiums to mouth the words and thoughts of handlers who, seeking to use his famous name, created him out of a failed businessman to do their political bidding.
		Without the words of others telling him what to do he is likely to simply reach into his well-fogged memory bank and pull out an old excuse for war that somebody had planned to use at one time or another.
	www.democraticunderground.com /articles/03/07/19_sixteen.html (866 words)

	Bush's 16 words - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Steve Gilliard, "16 words," (http://www.dailykos.net/archives/003393.html) Daily Kos, July 14, 2003.
		Christopher Marquis, "How Powerful Can 16 Words Be?" (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0720-09.htm) New York Times (Common Dreams), July 20, 2003.
		Jason Leopold, "State Department Memo: '16 Words' Were False," (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041706Y.shtml) truthout, April 17, 2006.
	www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=Bush's_16_words (934 words)

	16 Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bush thus could be said to have "taken personal responsibility" for his words, a phrase we hear a lot these days.
		President, others in your administration have said your words on Iraq and Africa did not belong in your State of the Union address.
		It was fair to think Bush would say "yes." Surely the time for "closure" on a story dominating the news for two weeks had arrived.
	weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/927rythz.asp (615 words)

	The Mahablog
		The famous Sixteen Words, about an attempted purchase of uranium from Africa by Iraq, are back in the news again.
		Note also that in the same paragraph as the sixteen words and the IAEA fib, Shrub repeated the famous "aluminum tube" story, as in those evil Iraqis have purchased aluminum tubes to use in centrifuges to enrich uranium.
		However, at the time Bush delivered the 2003 SOTU speech the IAEA, as well as at least some weapons experts in American intelligence, had concluded the aluminum tubes were not usable for uranium enrichment.
	www.mahablog.com /oldsite/2004.07.11_arch.html (3607 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The left's 16-word Bush 'scandal'
		Those 16 words are now the core of a Democratic Party assault on the credibility of George Bush, calling those words everything from a "deliberate lie" to "erroneous information."
		On the one hand you can chose to believe that in spite of their vast resources, The New York Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and The Washington Post never learned of the contents of Blair's statement to Parliament.
		This week we learned of new statements from Islamo-fascist clerics pledging to "bring America to its knees." Let's ignore this, though, and obsess over the magic 16 words in Bush's State of the Union speech.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33558 (910 words)

	Gill Report - 16 WORDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The sixteen words created a firestorm of controversy when a former Ambassador, Joe Wilson, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that his brief investigation into the allegation that Hussein had sought yellowcake uranium from Niger revealed no evidence to back it up.
		As a result, Democrats were quick to leap on Wilson?s words as evidence that President Bush had lied to get us into war in Iraq.
		The fact that they continue to cover-up the truth about Joe Wilson and the truth in the President's "16 words" is shameful.
	www.gillreport.com /wk-7 (807 words)

	Those 16 Words Still Smell, by Dennis Hans - Democratic Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We are now told that the controversial 16-word sentence in the January 28, 2003 State of the Union address (hereafter "SOTU") about alleged Iraqi efforts to procure unenriched uranium from Africa was "truthful" (William Safire) and "well-founded" (Britain's Butler Committee report).
		An examination of the entire SOTU paragraph that includes those 16 words illustrates a few of the many "techniques of deceit" the Bush team has mastered: deception through juxtaposition, unsupported "certitude" and, most importantly, deception through omission.
		In the days leading up to the SOTU, a CIA official and a National Security Council aide agreed that, for the purpose of a public speech, the best option was to cite a public document, Britain's September 2002 WMD dossier, rather than the CIA's classified National Intelligence Estimate.
	www.democraticunderground.com /articles/04/07/24_16words.html (2319 words)

	Another 16 Words
		This, notwithstanding the unseemly - indeed ugly - attacks on the President and his Administration by the Liberal Elites because the war against terrorism is not over.
		They are focusing on the 16 words in the President's State of the Union Address as a metaphor for their having tired of the war on terror.
		Rich does a wonderful job of reminding Americans that there were 16 other words spoken by our President that the Dims would like for us to forget.....
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/949616/posts (850 words)

	16 Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Oh, and to scapegoat the man who was trying to dissuade him from lying, for not trying hard enough — then to say he had full confidence in him.
		Condaleeza Rice has argued that this tempest concerns only the teacup’s-worth of sixteen words.
		It seems like only yesterday that Bush’s partisan allies were making an even bigger fuss over the single word, “is.”...
	akma.disseminary.org /archives/568.xml (386 words)

	Power Line: 16 justified words
		Yesterday, the Post editors took another look at President Bush's 16 words about Niger.
		At the time of the original Washington feeding frenzy over this story, the Post cautioned that all of the relevant facts were not known.
		That's still the Post's position, but it acknowledges that, in light of the recent reports of the Butler commission and the Senate panel, there is now good reason to believe that the "16 words" were justified after all.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/007240.php (234 words)

	Michael Ledeen on War on National Review Online
		Nonetheless, it is now part of the conventional wisdom to say that "the sixteen words" were a lie.
		Part of the answer — the other part being the malevolence and sloppiness of the press — is that the White House made a total hash of the whole thing, as is their wont.
		Indeed, if you go back and read the painful statements regarding "the sixteen words," you will find at least one in which Steven Hadley, then deputy national-security adviser, took full "responsibility" for the sin of including those words in the State of the Union.
	www.nationalreview.com /ledeen/ledeen200604100726.asp (1134 words)

	Apathy, Inc: 16 words, huh? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		That it was "just 16 words from a whole speech".
		Heck, the 2nd ammendment is just 24 words out of the whole Bill of Rights.
		The entire 10th ammendment is just 16 words - and it prevents excessive bail and fines, as well as cruel and unusual punishment - fairly important protections.
	www.apathyincorporated.com /archives/000201.html (336 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Bush takes responsibility for Niger claim
		Mr Bush's administration has faced increasing scrutiny over the claim - which was based on British intelligence - ever since the CIA publicly cast doubt over its validity, saying it should not have been included in his State of the Union address last year.
		Mr Bush has been asked before about the 16 words on Niger he uttered in his keynote speech, but declined to take personal responsibility.
		Instead, CIA director George Tenet and a senior White House aide, deputy national security adviser Stephen Hadley, accepted blame for the oversight.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1009196,00.html (747 words)

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