Bush: CIA approved speech
2003-07-11 16:26
Entebbe - President George W Bush said US intelligence agencies had cleared his state-of-the-union address, which included a claim, since discredited, that Iraq tried to get uranium from Niger.
"I gave a speech to the nation that was cleared by intelligence services. It was a speech that detailed to the American people the dangers posed by the Saddam Hussein regime," said Bush.
"My government took the appropriate response to the dangers and, as a result the world is more secure and more peaceful."
The US leader was speaking in Uganda, on the fourth stop of a five-country tour in Africa.
- AFX