I haven't dug real deep into the stories at all. What Bush said was that the British learned Saddam tried to obtain yellow cake from Africa. The parsing of the words to try to make it a lie based on Niger is and always has been silly. Clearly the security council was in Saddam's pocket.
That is the key to the truth. Bush knew that Saddam had compromised the UN Security Council. He forced the SC to admit that Saddam was in noncompliance. Failure to do so would have meant that France, Germany, Russia and the UN High Command would be exposed as corrupt traitors, a fate they are narrowly escaping to date.
The yellow cake story was documented quite apart from forged documents and was proven true when the materials were discovered in Iraq.
This criminal cabal, which includes Marxist CIA operatives, continues to act like a cat in a litter box.