Ah, thank you...now I understand.
I take that to mean that you think there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy yellowcake from Niger, but lots of people are trying to make it appear that he did.
My statement that this isn't much evidence is probably mispoken. There was LOTS of evidence before the war. (Someone claimed to have the text of a contract between Niger and Iraq).
However, all of that evidence has evaporated. Poof. Gone.
Now I don't know what you mean by "Rovian rules". However the summaries that I have read, including from Wilson, say that there is no question that Saddam Hussein wanted to start a nuclear program, and investigated options, including buying yellowcake from Niger.
Grin. Rove (cough) never outted Plame because he never mentioned her by name. Likewise, the delegation never mentioned they wanted to buy Yellowcake. :-)
How strong is that evidence? I don't know and I don't want to take the time to form a solid opinion. However the fact that people who are interested, both those for and against this administration, accept that claim suggests to me that the evidence is good enough. It is probably circumstantial - after all Saddam wasn't trying to make this an easily documented - but if it satisfies CIA people who don't like the administration then I'm willing to provisionally accept it.
Agreement. The CIA takes a look at this stuff.
And, btw, I'm not blasting the CIA (in this thread of posts at least), for coming to the conclusion that Iraq wanted WMD or to buy yellowcake. Any intelligence officer looking at the data that they received would have come to the same conclusion.
My point was : is anyone looking at the data that our intelligence officers received? It sure looks like we (as a nation) were hornswaggled.