Trib gets it wrong

Can we please drive a stake through the heart of the assertion that Saddam Hussein didn't seek yellowcake in Niger? He did. The Bush administration was trying to get the TRUTH out. Apparently that is a crime in the Alice in Wonderland world of the MSM. And this from an earlier post:

The Tribune story goes on to summarize the Senate report which dismisses the the intel on Iraq trying to buy yellowcake in Niger as "apparently fabricated" and that a connection between Iraq and Niger "did not exist". But this intel has been corroborated (see pages 6 and 7 of Podhoretz) by the bipartisan 9/11 commission, and Joe Wilson has been discredited in this and in his accusations that the Bush White House attempted to smear him and out his CIA wife. Even the Washington Post has concluded that Wilson himself is the one most reponsible for outing his wife, and one of their veteran political observers stated Karl Rove is owed an apology. As for the connection between Iraq and Niger, what was Saddam Hussein's top nuclear diplomat doing there?

Having tea? About the only marketable commodity in Niger is uranium, all you have to do is go to Wikepedia for that answer.

Joe Wilson is a liar, a Kerry operative, and Patrick Fitzgerald has reprehensibly engaged in very selective prosecution. And as far as selectively revealing information, I seem to recall the "crude political reasons" behind the NY Times' release of classified information that our intel was using the SWIFT network to track and capture terrorists. (And note to Sun Times, the Dems and their allies in the press who leak classified information for political gain are themselves in part responsible for hampering our intelligence-gathering capabilities and damaging our national security.) The Trib backed the NY Times on that one. The Tribune gets it wrong.