Italy/US propaganda project prior to invasion of IRAQ

[mburbank]

Thank you Kev. Vanity fair is not the magazine it was a few decades ago, and the article is well researched and excellent.

One should no more assume that just because Geggy posted it it's ridiculous than one would assume that an article by... Tony Blankney.

Seriously, the artcile is about the origin of the poorly forged nigerian documents on yellowcake that made their way into W's state of the Union speech, the infamous 16 words. Aren't you even curious about where they came from? I know they are the sort of thing that make conspiracy theorists drool, but they do exist, they did come from somewhere.

Besides, they have a feature which actually makes them register for me. They sucked. They were shitty forgeries. Conspiracies are almost always of little interet to me becuae they require a level of competance only found in spy novels. This has the watergate burglarly factor. It was an inept, shitty, fuck up. That kind of amateur shit seems FAR more plausible to me than the diea that we bombed the penatgon and then made a plane disappear.