It remains to be seen whether some staffer improperly briefed the President or if he just thru it into the speech on a whim while knowing it was false informations.

I suppose it doesn't really matter, as the buck stops at the Oval Office Desk.

Fortunatly, the policy line toward Iraq really didn't hinge on this single piece bad information. The policy toward disarming Iraq was built on much more: Like Sadam's refusal to comply with multiple UN resolutions.

Unfortunatly however, the Bush Administration choose to use this particular piece of information to make part of its case against Iraq (Especially when the case against Iraq was already justified in other ways) as reliance on such blatently bogus information does make it look like the Administration was grasping at straws to make a war in Iraq enevitable.

I suspect the press will have a field day with this as it should...

It is interesting that the Nigerian firm was dealing entirely with a contract for France though. There's still the possibility that the French Firm was a front for Sadam's military industrial complex...But then if I believed that conspiracy theory then I'd be more whacked out than those who believe in Lindy's ChemTrails, EP's falling Impactors from deep space, or Hillary Clinton's VRWC.

This one looks like one big screw up.

As an unabashed anti-democratic-party-political-hack all I can say is: Its a good thing knowbody cares! Ahhhhhh, the wonders of public school controlled for and by the bureaucrats in Washington DC!

Scott Evil