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The two epistomologies, again. Matt is right. The issue of the weakness of the intelligence about whether or not Iraq sought uranium from Niger is being overshadowed by a separate debate about Joe Wilson's credibiliy. It's the two epistomologies again. Those who want to believe, incredibly, Bush should have stood by his sixteen words, can trumpet on about Wilson, without looking at the total poverty of the intelligence backing up their claim. But they don't really care whether Iraq was seeking uranium in Niger as far as I can tell. Because it's too hard to figure out? Not really, at least some evidence is out there to peruse, I've done it, and it's pretty darn underwhelming. Kevin Drum makes a valiant effort to actually try to get to the truth on the Joe Wilson claims. Unfortunately, I suspect there's about as much of a market for the truth about Joe Wilson as there was for an attempted analysis of the other sources for the Niger uranium intelligence.
UPDATE: If this was a political cartoon, it would have a couple guys with a magnifying glass looking at tiny letters on forged documents about Niger uranium, and then two huge mountains of North Korea and Iran and all their nuclear warheads piling up, whistling at the sky, and the Bush people pointing at the magnifying glass.