The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
The statement was true, and recently a British Commission confirmed that was so. Days afterward, however, the US received forged documents about uranium sales from Africa to Saddam. (Documents, I should add that an Italian inquiry established were forged by a man working for French intelligence - apparently to discredit the good information upon which Bush and Blair had relied, and thereby to embarrass them.)
The left leaning media talking heads, such as Juan Williams of NPR, stated in their rebuttal to the forged Rathergate memos, that it was immaterial that they were forged since everyone knew that they were true and that George Bush needs to respond to their content.
If we use the same logic then the forged Nigerian/uranium documents should have be considered as 'true' and therefore need to be sponded to... Such as bombing the hell out of Sadam Hussein.
The British commission is the one which identified the two sources.
Once again, the Italian magazine (La Republicca, I believe) came up with a much different timeline which offered a credible explanation of why the CIA sent Wilson to Niger in Feb of 2002 - nearly a year before the CIA supposedly first saw the forgeries.