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In the push for the 2003 [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war with Iraq]], [[Bush administration]] officials, including President [[George W. Bush]] himself in his [[State of the Union 2003]] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/bushtext_012803.html speech], [[Bush's 16 words|cited evidence]] that [[Saddam Hussein]] had attempted to buy 500 tons of [[yellowcake uranium]] from the African nation of [[Niger]].
However, [[Mohamed ElBaradei]] of the [[United Nations]] [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] (IAEA) looked at the evidence and stated that it was obviously forged, although even though a year earlier, the [[CIA]] found the evidence to be unreliable. [http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2444571][http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2003/13/we_338_01.html]
==Events==
===Articles & Commentary===
====2003====
*Seymour M. Hersch, [http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?030331fa_fact1 Who Lied to Whom? Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq's nuclear program?], ''The New Yorker'' Online, Posted March 24, 2003.
*Joseph C. Wilson IV, [http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0706-02.htm "What I Didn't Find in Africa,"] ''New York Times'', July 6, 2003.
*[http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1841 "Bush Uranium Lie Is Tip of the Iceberg,"] [[FAIR]], July 18, 2003.
*[[Howard Dean]], [http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0721-01.htm "President Bush Must Set the Niger-Uranium Story Straight,"] ''Common Dreams'', July 21, 2003.
====2004====
*Eric Margolis, [http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/08/08/pf-573355.html "The lies that led to war,"] ''Canoe Network'', August 8, 2004.
====2005====
*Meldread, [http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4015665 "Follow the Yellowcake Road,"] ''Democratic Underground'', July 4, 2005. Timeline of events starting in February 2002.
*"Uranium from Africa and the Senate (SSCI) Report," ''The Left Coaster'': [http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004969.php Introduction] and [http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004970.php Part 1], July 24, 2005; [http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004975.php Part 2], [http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004979.php Part 3a], and [http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004978.php Part 3], July 25, 2005.
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