Allies????

Well when it turns out that one of the big "LIES" the President was supposed to have told to get us into the war is part of a convoluted plot on the part of at least one of our "allies" it really makes you wonder.
the whole Niger yellowcake uranium thing is held up over and over by opponent of Bush as evidence that he lied tot he American people to get us to go to war. It has now come out that the information that led to this claim is in fact false, it was a set of forged documents. (this has actually been known for awhile) The new info is that former free lance Italian spy Rocco Martino is the man who supplied the documents. And to top this off, he says he was being paid by France to supply this false information to the US.

Senator Luigi Malabarba, who also attended Thursday's hearing, said in a telephone interview that General Pollari had told the committee that Mr. Martino was "offering the documents not on behalf of Sismi but on behalf of the French" and that Mr. Martino had told prosecutors in Rome that he was in the service of French intelligence.

A senior French intelligence official interviewed Wednesday in Paris declined to say whether Mr. Martino had been a paid agent of France, but he called General Pollari's assertions about France's responsibility "scandalous."

The Italians Intel service (Sismi) was apparently uninvolved in the fiasco and has been helping to straighten out the mess.

Now can someone tell me why we should care if France is on our side in this effort or not?

Source of Forged Niger-Iraq Uranium Documents Identified
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