I read that long link and found one line:
And, among the latter, he says that the statements about Iraq and Niger are justified and supported by the intelligence. In other words, the British Government did learn that Saddam Hussein did seek significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
That's it? The article goes on to describe how Niger is 90% Suni Muslim, as is Saddam, suggesting that makes a Niger/Iraqi deal more likely. Perhaps, but Nigerian Sunis are not Iraqi Sunis any more than California Catholics are Italian Catholics.
I did some more digging and found this:
A Senate Intelligence Committee report found inadequate evidence that deposed Iraqi President Saddam had been rebuilding his nuclear weapons program. It cited various reports, however, that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa. Thus, although Bush cited only British evidence that was determined to have been inconclusive, other intelligence files clearly contained other inconclusive evidence of the truth of the claim.
The committee chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, said he believed last year that the White House was correct in repudiating the uranium claim. “Now I don’t know whether it’s accurate or not. That’s the whole question,” Roberts, R-Kan., said in an interview.
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Unfortunately, in the end, as Senator Roberts indicates, all the evidence is circumstantial and speculative - not factual.
Bush's State of the Union speech redeemed
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