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Tyrone Slothrop
So we are down to the following sources for the notion that Iraq tried to obtain uranium from Niger: (1) A phony set of documents peddled to a bunch of European intelligence agencies, among others
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As remarked here and elsewhere, some phony, some not.
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and (2) some other source the British say they have about which they will tell us nothing. We also know that Iraq had no nuclear program
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Its program (or programme as the Economist likes to call it) was shuttered and Saddam, by most accounts, intended to ramp it back up once the UN sanctions were lifted. So to say "no program" is misleading
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and that the mines in Niger were under French control
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Isn't "French control" an oxymoron
Uranium constitutes near 80% of Niger's exports - was this the rainy season?
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And yet you cling to the notion that it was appropriate for Bush to go in front of the nation in the State of the Union address to try to scare people into going to war with a nation that we now know posed no threat to us.
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I like how you include the words "now know"
