# The Uranium Fiasco: Incompetence or Disinformation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 26, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-uranium-fiasco-incompetence-or-disinformation/164163 "2003-03-26T00:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-uranium-fiasco-incompetence-or-disinformation/164163/61 "2003-03-30T21:26:58Z")
If it comforts you to believe it, **Shodan** , it would be churlish of me to deny it to you. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-uranium-fiasco-incompetence-or-disinformation/164163/62 "2003-03-30T21:43:15Z")
> [@](#): > > These kind of charges - ‘Does this intelligence failure mean that Bush is corrupt, incompetent, or both?’ - are perceived rather similarly to the “Clinton arranged for his political opponents to be murdered” stuff that was flying about a few years back. It is too clearly an overstatement of the worst possible interpretation of stuff that has never been adequately proven by people who will believe anything bad about Bush. While the choices of “corrupt, incompetent, or both?” may be somewhat limited, they can in no way be compared to “Clinton arranged for his political opponents to be murdered” What exactly would be a more charitable view of the intelligence failure as it impacts on Bush’s ultimate leadership role? Does he have the final word? Or is he merely a dupe? [sup](No! I spelt that correctly. If I had meant to say “dope”, I would have).[/sup] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-uranium-fiasco-incompetence-or-disinformation/164163.md?page=3)