[marron]

why just about everyone involved in screaming "there is a coverup here", such as Wilson, turn out to be long time Democrat partisans and far-left activists.

I am just starting to work my way through this thread; but I was struck from the beginning by the fact that Wilson asked the Government of Niger, who said there was no sale. Then he asked the mining company, who confirmed that there was no sale. Based essentially on their denials, he rejected the CIA claims out of hand. It couldn't have happened, because had they sold yellow-cake to Saddam, they would have told him so.

Does that not strike anyone else as rather naive for a professional diplomat?

And now, based on Wilson's faith in their denials, we are going to impeach a president? I don't think so. If you were Saddam, and you were out to obtain nuclear materials, you would look to corrupt non-governments, you would look to the Russian mafia, and you would look to your allies. The evidence is that all of these were happening.

There have been a number of high-profile seizures of nuclear materials coming out of the ex-Soviet countries, there have been arrests of uranium smugglers carrying small amounts of uranium with an apparent German source. German nuclear scientists have been convicted of working for Saddam.

[William McKinley]

Does that not strike anyone else as rather naive for a professional diplomat?

No, it sounds results oriented.

[Mo1]

There have been a number of high-profile seizures of nuclear materials coming out of the ex-Soviet countries, there have been arrests of uranium smugglers carrying small amounts of uranium with an apparent German source. German nuclear scientists have been convicted of working for Saddam.

If I recall .. doesn't Germany have interest in those uranium mines in Niger?

[bvw]

Details, details ... maybe the froth is the product.

[bvw]

Let's see ... there's a stolen 727 flitting around Africa for weeks and weeks, yet everyone thinks it can be determined for certain that Iraq did or did not attempt to buy baby geiger food. Most reasonable and proactively discrete to assume they might have, don't you think? Yet to say we did or did not have a good report ... that's dog chasing tail stuff.