Yep, we agree. "The sun is green" is a false statement, but "Somebody told me the sun is green" is a true statement if indeed somebody told me the sun was green. Congratulations - - you are capable of linear thought and understand basic logic.
Regards,
LH
But in this case, it is the press who have maintained that the sun was green, knowing that it was not.
Wissam Zahawie did visit Niger, and this is unquestioned, and Wilson himself acknowledged it. Which means that not only did Bush believe his statement to be true, it in fact was and is true, and despite tons of printer's ink to the contrary, there never was any doubt about it.
It is Wilson and the press who have invested endless reams of print trying to deny what was never in doubt.