Bush under fire from Senators over uranium claim

QUESTIONS over the legitimacy of going to war are also being raised across the Atlantic, with US President George W Bush heavily criticised for making false claims about Iraq seeking to buy uranium from an African state.

Two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating how the uranium claim came to be included in a State of the Union address by Bush, said their investigations were imperative for the United State’s international credibility.

“Ultimately, the public needs to be reassured that, in fact, the intelligence the president was given and was used, and how he framed the debate and the decision to go into Iraq, was intelligence that they can have confidence in,” Senator Chuck Hagel said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”