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The 16 words that liberals called a LIE, and have based their entire antiwar policy on:

“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .” Pres George Bush, State of Union Address
Jan 28, 2003

From The American Thinker, 2005:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/10/covering_up_iraqs_quest_for_ur.html

The Congo Connection

The British intelligence report that GW cited in his State of the Union address didn't even concern Niger, but rather focused on the Congo. According to the U.K. Telegraph, the Congo was a far more promising source of uranium since the country had been in throes of a civil war, and since it also had a reasonable level of proven uranium reserves. The country's history of uranium production goes back to 1939, when a Congo mine supplied the material for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The Congo also has one of the few nuclear power reactors on the continent.

Ironically, the backing for the British intelligence report targeting the Congo is none other than our own ISG, which was largely composed of elements of the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). In his final report, Duelfer notes that the ISG had found a document that told of a post—Gulf War I contact between Baghdad and Africa concerning an offer of uranium; and the source of the uranium was not Niger, but — surprise — from the Congo.....