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Actually the smart money is on the French government or someone within French intelligence producing the documents.

As we all know the French have a very close relationship with Niger's uranium industry.

The fakes were poor quality and the French government seemed to know pretty much right away they were fakes.

Much as it is hard to believe that Saudi employee Wilson was sent by mere coincidence and coincidently came back toeing the Saudi's line, it is also hard to believe that
it is a coincidence that these fakes were produced in the perfect manner for the lead anti-war power to disprove them.

For what it is worth a number of anonymous British intelligence sources turned up when the documents were shown to be false suggesting that this was the work of the French as part of their rather broad anti-American efforts.

Certainly the quality of the fakes here indicates that they did not come from a pro-war source.

Hostility to the INC in the press has been an interesting phenomenon. One has to wonder if there were more Saddam flunkies in the west then we now know of from the recent list of Saddam's 270 bought and paid for retainers.

We have already seen this with Ritter and his Saddam sponsored movie - a fairly brilliant way, if you stop and think about it - to bribe someone with minimal exposure.

But what would be the motivation of the French government in producing the documents?

If they wanted to embarrass Britain or the US one would think they would produce documents that would at least try to fool them. But these forgeries were really cheap.

I mean, using the signature of a person who had not occupied the purported position for over ten years! Like someone said, a twenty minute search on the internet would have shown these documents to be forgeries.

As far as Joe Wilson and his connections to the Saudis, near as I can figure he was asked to research the truth of the documents, did that, and reported (privately) the documents were untrue.

What else was he supposed to do? Tell the CIA the documents were true?

I have to say I simply don't get the connection between the necessary motivation and the French and the Saudis.

I tend to support your theory the French had a hand it forging.

I have tried to watch the players in this WAR against terrorist. Those of free nations that put up their blood and treasury to rid this world of mass murderers have been assaulted by more than a wild bunch of killers.

This is no longer about a group of lunatic killers, it is a world wide conspiracy to take this nation down. The leftist liberals in this nation have not taken a stand to support this nation. Their words and deeds are in opposition to protecting this nation. I cannot imagine serving with my life in that land of Iraq and hearing what the leftist liberals here have to say about what is going on.

What also appears to have happened is President Bush has been able contain and control the lying liberals access to "intel". These liberals do not know what "INTEL" President Bush has and thus France, Russia, Germany as well as those terrorists have been walking blindly in the past 6 months.

Destroying President Bush's credibility is key not only to winning the election but to lessen the impact of the "INTEL" he has.