The Washington Post reveals the reason why Bush used the Niger claims in his State Of The Union speech: it seems all his other cited evidence had dried up. The article lists a bunch of claims made by Bush and his Boyz over the previous year and shows how these had all been discredited.

Where did the Niger claims come from? According to a media report cited in the Hindu newspaper, a low-paid African diplomat working in Niger's Embassy in Rome forged the documents as a way to make a quick buck out of Italian intelligence!