The incomparable Christopher Hitchens today conducts his own analysis  in Slate on the left's accepted truth that GW lied when he said that Saddam had sought to buy uranium in Africa.  The American Thinker covered much of the same ground last October and concluded that the President's statement in the State of the Union address was in fact, accurate and based on sound intelligence. Hitchens focuses on Iraq's then—Vatican envoy Wissam al—Zahawie, who was also Saddam's senior public envoy for nuclear matters.  Hitchens notes that, In February 1999, Zahawie left his Vatican office for a few days and paid an official visit to Niger, a country known for absolutely nothing except its vast deposits of uranium ore. It was from Niger that Iraq had originally acquired uranium in 1981, as confirmed in the Duelfer Report.  In order to take the Joseph Wilson view of this Baathist ambassadorial initiative, you have to be able to believe that Saddam Hussein's...(Read Full Post)