[George W. Bush]

Aren't a lot of people assuming that the "16 words" refer to Niger as opposed to somewhere else in Africa?

I'm not. As I pointed out in my post above. Apparently, the Niger thing comes from the IAEA accusation that Niger sold 250 tons of yellowcake to Saddam in 1981-1982 (which Niger denies). I think the whole Niger thing is about U.N./IAEA incompetence and that Dim agitprop tool, Wilson, who is carrying the knife on this one.

I suspect that Niger may be telling the truth. If Saddam's yellowcake came from Niger, it might have been purchased/shipped by a third party. Let me see... Who manages all those yellowcake mines in Niger? Oh, yeah. The French!!!!!!

You can connect the dots for yourself. But if true, it would tie in with Chirac selling Saddam the Osirak reactors at about the same time. My, what a strange series of sheer coincidences that would seem to be...

[Ethyl]

You can connect the dots for yourself. But if true, it would tie in with Chirac selling Saddam the Osirak reactors at about the same time. My, what a strange series of sheer coincidences that would seem to be...

Does anybody else remember in the first few weeks after we took Bahgdad that the Army or Marines found a place that was soo hot with nuclear material that they had to shut it down? There were many rooms very "hot" underground. Then all the Iraqis came and dumped out the barrels of "yellow cake" and used the barrels for storage? What ever happened about that? There seem to be a lot of diss-connects that happened in the early days.