Originally Posted by benjamin
Wilson said that Iraq never tried to buy enriched yellowcake from Niger. Apparently there was an Iraqi delegation sent to Niger in 1999 that proposed some kind of increased commercial relationship, but prime minister Ibrahim Assane Mayaki wasn't about to violate UN trade sanctions, so nothing came of it. What the 9/11 Commission say about it?
Regardless, Cheney was trying to hide the facts about Iraq so he could continue to publicly justify a war that never should have happened. Thanks, Vice President Asshat. I hope you go to jail.
Off the top of my head I do not know in any great detail the specifics the 9/11 Commission discredited Wilson on.
As for the facts about the war I do not think anyone was disingenuous with the reasons to go to war. Was intelligence faulty? Yes. But that does not mean the information was not credible at the time. When your own head of the CIA calls the intelligence a "Slam Dunk" it is hard to write him off, afterall he is your top spy. It is easy to play Monday morning QB when the situation has already been played out. But the situation is still playing and more and more evidence is pointing to Iraq having WMD and moving them to Syria. The former head of the Iraqi Air Force has already come out and said he directed flights from Iraq to Syria to get the stuff out while appearing to be civilian airlines.