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The best theory I have heard here is he went to Niger to help them cover up the connection. That assumes that enough decision makers in the CIA wanted to bury the yellowcake connections as much as possible. Seems reasonable to me.

An alternative theory is that the CIA set up the yellowcake deals in the 80's to empower Saddam and set up more yellowcake deals recently to help provide evidence against Saddam. In that case Wilson is alone in defending Saddam against the charges. Maybe he feels bad about the way Saddam was stung with a nod and wink to go into Kuwait which he was part of (although which side is he was on is in question).

"The best theory I have heard here is he went to Niger to help them cover up the connection. That assumes that enough decision makers in the CIA wanted to bury the yellowcake connections as much as possible. Seems reasonable to me."

Thus far this is what appears to be what was taking place, the CIA appears to have been the tool used by others higher than their paygrade.

The liberals who went out on a limb with their votes and speech to stop this war have done absolutely nothing to find out the whole picture. They have seemed quite content to place the responsibility upon old Joe Wilson's woman, and tarnish his supposed good name from a presidential campaign and yet old Joe hasn't seemed to notice who used him and threw him and his woman from the train.

The timely demand for this investigation over a supposed outing served another purpose, prevent President Bush from asking the necessary questions to find out what the .ell was going on. I have no doubt that had anybody from the White House made inquiry we would have heard it leaked by now, with a full transcript made available as was previously done to the Speaker of the House.

"An alternative theory is that the CIA set up the yellowcake deals in the 80's to empower Saddam and set up more yellowcake deals recently to help provide evidence against Saddam. In that case Wilson is alone in defending Saddam against the charges. Maybe he feels bad about the way Saddam was stung with a nod and wink to go into Kuwait which he was part of (although which side is he was on is in question)."

Oh history does seem to have a way of being repeated. If my memory serves me correctly Britain was a protectorate of Kuwait, and while there were bold claims that Saddam was given the "nod and wink" to take Kuwait, seems to me it was more specific to a limited area where supposed slant drilling was taking place.

Old Saddam thinking he was the modern day King of Babylon took what he deceived himself to believe as a green light to capture Kuwait misread the tea leaves.

Another reason why I think Blair was readily willing to join US now, because we took the "heat" in the first trimming of old Saddam's wings by helping Britain fulfill its obligations.