Tom W.
…Mayaki interpreted “expanding commercial relations” to mean that the delegation wanted to discuss uranium yellowcake sales.
“Interpreted”. For an assumption, Bush, his administration, and his media cheerleaders sure spend a lot of time and effort asserting this as a fact.
So they why did Bush blow Valerie Plame’s cover? Why did Bush blow her CIA cover agency’s cover?
Hmmm… why would the Bush Administration want to destroy a vital anti-nuclear-proliferation intelligence unit who’s area of operation included Iran?
Gee, it’s almost like… he didn’t want any intelligence out of Iran. Like… he wanted an absence of facts so there would be uncertainty. Like… he wanted uncertainty to bolster his excuse for attacking Iran because “we don’t know”.
But I’m sure Bush wouldn’t do that. That would put Brewster Jenning’s CIA agents at risk of capture, interrogation, and death. That betrayal would hurt both the CIA’s retention of current employees and recruitment of new employees. That betrayal would make other countries’ intelligence services much more reluctant to share information for fear it would be used for partisan domestic political purposes, and that would inhibit our prosecution of the War on Terror. And Bush would never to that!
