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Note that President Bush said that Hussein sought uranium, not that a transaction or transfer had been completed.

Another key point, is that within the famous 16 words, it leads in with “The Britsh government…”. The British government has stood never backed off their claim, built upon a number of intelligence sources, that uranium was sought after in Africa by Saddam’s Iraq. Both the Senate intelligence committee and a special British commission in 2004 basically exonerates the sentence from the SotU as having validity.