ping for later. Marron, pardon the ping, but I respect your opinion. I'm hoping you find this article interesting.
This story is from the Daily Kos?
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This article starts out telling us that George H. W. Bush DID fly to Paris on an SR-71 to set up the "October Surprise" in 1980, and then it gets REALLY paranoid!
forgot to ping you to post #9
I haven't read the article but I think I know where they are going with this.
The French control the yellowcake production in Niger. Yellowcake is just about the only product that Niger produces, but they have no skills, so France does all the work and reaps a hefty profit along the way, not to mention getting to control where that yellowcake goes.
The British came out with a report saying that Saddam had sent an envoy to Niger to look into buying yellowcake from Niger, but really from the French.
The French were not happy about the British report because they had promised Saddam that they would cover for him and keep the UN off his back in exchange for all those oil vouchers.
So,,, the French came up with the idea to forge some documents, make them look obviously fake and pass them through the Italians, so that every one would look at them and say, the British are nuts, no one would believe that Saddam really bought yellowcake from Niger.
Then Joe Wilson writes his little op-ed in the NYT, accusing
the President of lying and Rove of exposing his wife's CIA identity. Along the way Wilson claims to have seen these forged documents and also claims to have known all along that they were fakes.
But... there were a couple of problems with that. The US didn't even have possession of the documents yet, when Wilson was in Niger, so how could he have seen them, and known that they were fakes.
There are a couple of possibilities; one he was lying and never saw them, and therefore shouldn't have known they were fakes. or two he saw them because he is so friendly with the French that they let him in on their little secret, or three he never saw them, but the French had already let him in their secret.
Take your pick.
That's not where this guy is going. He still doesn't get it that the French were behind the forged docs and is looking at Italian fascists. They may have been behind the forgeries, but the French were behind them.