Doesn't this whole mess boil down to somebody within our government was trying to protect Saddam. Joe Wilson was "selected" to produce the "INTEL" that would make the case that Saddam wasn't nearly as bad as the world thought.
Of course .. part of the reason was that Russia, France and Germany had very lucrative contracts with Saddam and some of the equipment and arms they had sold to Saddam had not been paid for .. meaning those 3 countries would be out millions of dollars.
Personally, I believe Bill Clinton was involved in those deals - I don't have any evidence, but when the run-up to the war started, Clinton was all over Europe (on the pretense of hawking Hillary's book), and he was twisting the arms of smaller countries on the Security Council to keep them from voting for going to war, which was a direct act against his own country. You want a TREASONOUS ACT - there ya go!
And .. while he was doing that .. Rockefeller was flitting all over the Middle East warning the Arab nations that Bush was going to attack Iraq. This was classified information. You want a TREASONOUS ACT - there ya go!