Saddam did have yellow cake. When he had purchased it is immaterial considering the character we were dealing with taking National Security into account.
What really pisses me off, the damn CIA had to send the irresponsible Wilson over to Niger AFTER 9/11 to determine the facts on the ground. WTF, we are paying this agency $30 billion dollars per year and they have no freekin idea who is attempting to purchase yellow cake? And you are trying to determine the honesty of the Libby/Wilson BS????? Please, spare me. This issue ticks me off to no end.
BTW, Bush's statement in the SOTU 2003 only said that Saddam attempted to purchase yellow cake and he quoted British intelligence. His statement was absolutely true. Don't you know that? If now why not? Here is the exact quote:
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Yes, exactly. The Wilson affair revealed for anyone paying attention that CIA had apparently no one at all on the ground in a uranium producing country, a country in which Al Qaeda was trying to get a foothold, by the way.
If they had, they might have picked up on Libya's purchases, maybe.
Or maybe not. Do you remember from the 911 commission that Navy Intel notified CIA of a trader who supposedly wanted to come clean about uranium smuggling, and had a warehouse of the stuff at the port.
CIA never interviewed the guy. Their response was, "oh, were we supposed to?" And they waited a month before they sent anyone to look at the warehouse, and then found nothing.
And it might be worth reminding people that Wilson was in bed with a Saudi partner who was on Saddam's oil-for-food tab. So, where does that lead us?
The state dept and the CIA are infested with leftists. That explains it.
Something else to keep in mind is a lot of Wilson's argument was the President saying that the Iraqis were looking for Yellowcake, and Wilson screaming indignantly that they the Iraqis hadn't bought any Yellowcake (at that time) from the Nigerian government. This a few months after Wilson's early 2003 editorial arguing that we shouldn't invade Iraq because his oodles of WMDs would make such an attack a disaster.