According to
this AParticle an Italian Lawmaker says that:
Italian secret services warned the United States months before it invaded Iraq that a dossier about a purported Saddam Hussein effort to buy uranium in Africa was fake, a lawmaker said Thursday after a briefing by the nation's intelligence chief.
At about the same time as the State of the Union address, they (Italy's SISMI secret services) said that the dossier doesn't correspond to the truth," Sen. Massimo Brutti told journalists after the parliamentary commission was briefed.
Brutti said the warning was given in January 2003, but he did not know whether it was made before or after President Bush's speech.
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Josh Marshal has been all over this, but the revelation being so succintly relayed in the main stream press is huge.
I am not as cynical as a friend of mine who said, "what more "huger" bad news must there be for change to occur? I can't believe it will make any difference. Peeepul are stooopid". This seems different to me because it is being laid out in very simple terms and about being lied to.
Man I can't wait to see Pelosi and Reid on this, especially when it is verified.
UPDATE: Fink in comments suggest we need to go to Yahoo "to rate that story up." Good idea.