I said I don't watch the news; that doesn't mean I don't get news. I just don't have the hours to while away by watching hot-headed loudmouths (on *any* cable channel) express outrage I'm meant to share because a Notice of Outrage was issued by the Official Party Organ.

Once you substract Uranium, there is nothing left to buy from Niger. Quoting the CIA factbook (yeah yeah, CIA, go ahead and give me a better source if you want), their exports are: uranium ore, livestock, cowpeas, onions. Sweet, Saddam must've wanted some of them cowpeas, probably to build himself a palace. To suggest that opening commercial relations was anything but a prelude to purchasing uranium is willful ignorance.