[Anselma]

"The CIA did NOT attempt this allll by themselves. Somebody had to initiate this and have the ability to give political cover and who better than elected members of Congress ..."

I read that the painfully inarticulate John Conyers originally called for a Special Counsel investigation, so the DOJ got Fitz.

[Just mythoughts]

What I am pointing to is that Wilson went on his supposed intel gathering trip to Niger in February 2002. That is within a 6 month time frame after 9/11/01.

Now as I recall the WHOLE world was attempting to protect Saddam, mainly by re-instituting those supposed inspections, and hearing from old Blix. Bill Clinton himself told us that we should wait until Blix spoke at the UN before we made a move.

Our liberals were promoting a "nuclear" N. Korea as the bigger concern than old Saddam, and old Bill Clinton said that all the mental Il wanted was "respect".

This Wilson trip was long long before Powell went to the UN or before the inspections were sought to be established again.

So way back in Feb 2002 somebody somewhere was plotting and planning to do whatever they could to save old Saddam.