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Far too much torturous emphasis on thinking the French forged Niger documents to embarrass the US (and Brits) and to discredit our excuse for war. As if yellowcake from Niger was the main rationale we had to suspect Saddam's long term WMD intentions or to invade Iraq ....NOT.

I hold a far simpler theory that French forgeries about a Niger-Iraq deal were introduced to "skunk" valid credible intelligence, past and future, about a nefarious scheme to transfer uranium from French-controlled African mines to Iraq and/or other rogue nations. Either by the French and Niger governments.....or by for-profit operatives operating outside the official channels of those governments.

I also would like to see JC Wilson's extraordinarily lucrative "consulting" business, the funding he obtained for various travels to Africa by appearing to be traveling on behalf of the CIA, and also the investigation to look at the activities of his French ex-wife Jacqueline who is receiving mega bucks for being an "advisor" to the President of Gabon, still using Joe Wilson's name, and presumably playing on his past diplomatic credentials that imply some type of access to US policy makers

[Ditto]

I hold a far simpler theory that French forgeries about a Niger-Iraq deal were introduced to "skunk" valid credible intelligence, past and future, about a nefarious scheme to transfer uranium from French-controlled African mines to Iraq and/or other rogue nations. Either by the French and Niger governments.....or by for-profit operatives operating outside the official channels of those governments.

I agree.