[paperjam]

Exactly Correct! Wilson was Plan B.

What they didn't count on was the British doing their own background investigations.

France counted on the UN to suppress our going to war.

Bottom line...If the documents could be proved fake, all our evidence for going to war would be rendered suspect.

With no war, France gets rich on Iraqi oil.

[JustDoItAlways]

Just noting Wilson's trip to Niger was in February 2002, 8 months before the fake documents officially surfaced in Italy in October 2002.

But there are some investigative angles that indicate the documents date earlier than that and were passed on to the US through the US embassy in Italy as early as 2000. The US then re-leaked them through Martino. This is where the dems are going with the issue now.

But Martino has apparently confessed to Italian prosecutors recently that he did, indeed, make the fake documents (with French Intelligence help as well.)

[skinkinthegrass]

Frances plan would cement and the war would be averted either by the UN or the American public. Eventually, Iraq would be sanction free and France would reap the benefits...

hehehe...In the game of Chess, Gambit, a set-up. (and Life/Business :), THE FROGGIES, STILL LOSE, BIGTIME! :D