A particular aspect of the approach of the Head-In-The-Sand (HITS) Coalition was their myopic obsession (for as long and as often as it was politically expedient) with the seventeen words in President George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address, where he cited British intelligence citing Saddam Hussein's pursuit of Nigerian enriched uranium.

When said fission material did not immediately turn up Iraq side post-topple, the HITS just kept on coming, adding this to their selectively analyzed litany of how President Bush "lied us into war" (the assault on grammar that this sentence represents is alone offense enough to dismiss the whole lot of them).

Clearly the More Believable

The ridiculous underlying operating assumption was that Hussein was the default font of truth in this Presidential tête-à-tête.

Christopher Hitchens, British brilliance coming from the Left (there are occasional liberal exceptions that prove the over-arching rule) has now verified another facet of the world wide web, definitively detailing the nuclear league between Saddam Hussein and Niger.

Does Anyone Have a Periodic Table of Icthyus?

The Baghdad Butcher was fishing, and he almost hooked something off of Niamey. Thankfully, President Bush chose to weather the HITS and do what he knew to be best, taking out the Tikriti Trawler before he had better luck.

The Presidential operational motto should be, "Saving your ***, whether you like it or not".