Ohhhh. It's all the fault of the French.

[progressoid]

Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France

The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for nuclear bombs has admitted that he was in the pay of France.

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His admission to investigating magistrates in Rome on Friday apparently confirms suggestions that - by commissioning "Giacomo" to procure and circulate documents - France was responsible for some of the information later used by Britain and the United States to promote the case for war with Iraq.

Italian diplomats have claimed that, by disseminating bogus documents stating that Iraq was trying to buy low-grade "yellowcake" uranium from Niger, France was trying to "set up" Britain and America in the hope that when the mistake was revealed it would undermine the case for war, which it wanted to prevent.

Italian judicial officials confirmed yesterday that Mr Martino had previously been sought for questioning by Rome. Investigating magistrates in the city have opened an inquiry into claims he made previously in the international press that Italy's secret services had been behind the dissemination of false documents, to bolster the US case for war....

More:

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/19/wniger19.xml


See?
And I was reading on one of the other internets called Freerepublic that Mr. Wilson's second wife was French so you can see the conspiracy. Right?

So, we should just forget all of this silly Plame/CIA outing nonsense. The real crimes were commited by Wilson, Plame and the French.

So there. Nya Nya Nya

[aden_nak]

1. That's the right wing back-up scapegoat if Clinton's Penis has an alibi.

[tocqueville]

3. there was a different version in "la Republicca" yesterday

according to what Martino tried to sell bogus documents to the French (that were interested in knowing IF uranium was smuggled out of Niger).

They payed him a week-end on the Riviera for that but threw the papers into the garbage can because the forgeries were so obvious. Then Martino sold the information to the MI6 and the CIA, who used it. Later Wilson debunked the whole story.

[tanyev]

2. Those Frenchies tricked us into invading Iraq?

Sacre bleu! :wow:

[progressoid]

4. No no no - they tried to trick us into NOT going into war.

But we're too smart for them Frencies. We completely ignored their ruse and did it anyway!

[zbdent]

5. Wait, the French WANTED US to go to war?

I'm confused again . . .

That's what I get for using freepturd logic . . .